by Wendy Kikkert | Feb 5, 2010 | Classical Music and Opera |
The opening concert of Pacific Serenades’ 24th season certainly fulfilled their mission: to generate new chamber music by commissioning works and presenting them alongside standard repertoire in intimate concert settings, emphasizing the wonderful talents of Southern...
by Wendy Kikkert | Feb 4, 2010 | Classical Music and Opera |
I’m not sure what I expected. As someone who has listened to and studied classical music as a pianist and a singer, I am acquiring a taste for 20th-century and contemporary music late in life. Because I am still striving to apprehend this foreign territory, I am...
by Wendy Kikkert | Feb 4, 2010 | Classical Music and Opera |
The Good Soldier Schweik by Robert Kurka is one of the finest Long Beach Opera productions I’ve seen. The cast was strong, the sets and costumes were minimal yet inventive, the direction and choreography were outstanding. The opera libretto is by Lewis Allan,...
by Wendy Kikkert | Jan 29, 2010 | Classical Music and Opera |
Pacific Serenades will open its 24th season with three performances: Saturday, Jan. 30, 8 p.m. at a private home in Culver City; Sunday, Jan. 31 at 4 p.m. at the Neighborhood Church in Pasadena; and Tuesday, Feb. 9 at 8 p.m. at the UCLA Faculty Center. The program,...
by Wendy Kikkert | Jan 25, 2010 | Classical Music and Opera |
Part One: I was an undergraduate in the ’70s when I first heard of John Cage’s 4’33”. At the time, I dismissed the piece — and Cage in general — as ridiculous. I went to Southwest Chamber Music’s first concert in their Cage 2012 series on Jan....
