by David Maurer | Jan 29, 2014 | Classical Music and Opera |
Jacaranda is a programming collaborative for modern music whose tagline is “Music at the Edge.” The two pieces featured in the Jan. 25 “Hallucination” concert at Santa Monica’s First Presbyterian Church — Nomos Alpha by Iannis Xenakis and Stimmung by Karlheinz...
by David Maurer | Jan 19, 2014 | Classical Music and Opera |
While I have to admit that Benjamin Britten’s 1954 opera based on Henry James’ novella The Turn of the Screw is not my cup of oolong, I was interested to see how the new opera company Pacific Opera Project handled its ambiguous psychological themes. Having been...
by David Maurer | Dec 7, 2013 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured |
At the risk of sounding like Rex Reed, let me just throw out a few preliminary comments: “Run, don’t walk to this extravaganza,” “You’ll want to pay the piper for this ‘Flute,’” “If there’s one show you see this season…,” “The hottest ticket in town!” Well, you get...
by David Maurer | Dec 4, 2013 | Entertainment and Events |
The week of Nov. 18, the star-maker machinery was humming at full tilt for Julian Lennon. Monday he was in New York to do Katie Couric’s talk show. Then out to L.A. for recording sessions and to get ready for an appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” on...
by David Maurer | Nov 11, 2013 | Classical Music and Opera |
This is the bicentennial year for the birth of two of opera’s most towering figures: Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi. However, Wagner had already been dead for 10 years when Verdi’s final opera Falstaff premiered in 1893. Falstaff was not some warmed over swan song...
