The lineup for the UCLA Live 2010-11 season is so remarkable that each event could be considered a highlight of the season. Below, we’ve covered the dance and classical lineups. But consider also the big names scheduled in jazz, including Ornette Coleman (Nov. 3) and Chick Corea and Gary Burton (March 5), and in spoken [...]
Any Shakespeare production that leaves audiences clamoring for more after 2 hours and 40 minutes is a successful Shakespeare production — and obviously one that you should not miss. Such is the case with the Antaeus Company’s “King Lear,” onstage at the Deaf West Theatre in North Hollywood through Aug. 15.
The Antaeus Company, which was [...]
A couple in urgent physical conversation traces and re-traces a horizontal path through an industrial environment of hard surfaces and harsh light. The camera cuts in close so that heads dive and bare limbs slice through our field of vision. Then, when they quiet, we rest intimately in the tangle of her hair and against [...]
With the recent closing of LA Opera’s Götterdämmerung, the circus has packed up and left town. But like a classic rocker’s farewell tour, this motley crew will soon be back for an encore performance — despite the grumbles of ‘good riddance’ that lately have been ricocheting around town from more than a few opera fans. [...]
Simon Trpčeski will perform Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the LA Phil and conductor Jaap van Zweden April 16-18 at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Trpčeski and van Sweden have been making the rounds with this piece; the two performed the concerto in Dallas with van Zweden’s Dallas Symphony Orchestra and in Europe with the [...]
For some years now, the Da Camera Society has been presenting Chamber Music in Historic Sites, where pre-modern music is performed in distinctive venues from Pasadena to the Westside. On March 10, Angelenos were treated to Catalan violist extraordinaire Jordi Savall performing solo at the Doheny Mansion. If you can find any excuse to wander [...]
The very last pizzicato note of “Petrushka” in a February concert conducted by Charles Dutoit was overshadowed by someone’s badly timed cough. Therefore, I decided it’s time to publish a set of rules of etiquette for Disney Hall that have been sitting on my computer for several months now.
But, first, here are the March highlights [...]
Even though February is the shortest month, it is still jam-packed with great performances led by a host of world-renowned conductors at Disney Hall. Starting on Friday, Feb. 5, Herbert Blomstedt conducts the LA Phil in performances of Haydn’s Symphony No. 101, The Clock, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. The program repeats Saturday and Sunday, [...]
The fall portion of the 2009-2010 season of the Los Angeles Philharmonic is already behind us, having left us with some memorable concerts. If you missed any of them, don’t fret because the spring schedule offers many sure-to-be-great performances as well. LA Phil’s new music director, Gustavo Dudamel, will be conducting and touring with the [...]
Nathan Gunn, an award-winning baritone who was included in People magazine’s 2008 list of sexiest men alive, is onstage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion through Dec. 19 as Figaro, the title role in LA Opera’s “The Barber of Seville.” The Rossini opera features some instantly recognizable music (“Thanks to Warner Brothers,” Gunn said with a [...]
