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Music review: Gustavo Dudamel starts off the L.A. Phil year with new beginnings
Culture MonsterOn the heels of a late-December PBS broadcast of this season’s Los Angeles Philharmonic opening night gala, “Celebración”; an hour-long special on Gustavo Dudamel hosted by Tavis Smiley; the Berlin Philharmonic’s New Year’s Eve concert... -
Lucinda Childs among choreographers for OCPAC-Bolshoi partnership
Culture MonsterLucinda Childs wants less from her dancers. Commissioned to create a 10-minute solo to composer John Adams’ “Book of Harmony” for “Reflections,” opening Jan. 20 at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, the choreographer is working with top-... -
Music review: Gustavo Dudamel and the L.A. Phil on the big screen
Culture Monster"Amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing …" So exclaimed a woman at a Century City cinema Sunday afternoon as the credits rolled by. Maybe the Los Angeles Philharmonic has a hit on its hands with LA Phil Live. Maybe, maybe, maybe,...... -
Early (short) reviews of Dudamel and LA Phil Live from theaters via Twitter
Culture MonsterThousands of people across the United States and in Canada have just finished watching Gustavo Dudamel conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic live in some 450 movie theaters. The first of three planned LA Phil Live transmissions of the orchestra was...... -
Music review: Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic triumphant at Disney Hall
Culture MonsterIt is not easy to create a sensation with the Brahms symphonies. These four sturdy scores are the standard repertory’s comfort food, often served overcooked and under-spiced, meant more to nourish than excite. Monday night the Berlin Philharmonic played... -
'Nixon' in Colorado: Where's Sellars?
Culture Monster“On that summer day of our first meeting in 1983 Peter … wasted little time in proposing that we collaborate on making an opera,” John Adams writes of Peter Sellars in his memoir, “Hallelujah Junction.” “He even knew what to...... -
Music review: Los Angeles Master Chorale at Disney Concert Hall
Culture MonsterHaving eagerly embraced the John Adams-curated Minimalist Jukebox festival three years ago, Grant Gershon rounded up his Los Angeles Master Chorale for another Adams festival, West Coast, Left Coast, Sunday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Result –... -
Music review: Terry Riley launches West Coast, Left Coast Festival
Culture Monster“IF THERE IS NO SEDUCTION, THERE IS NO MUSIC.” The capitalized sentiment leapt off the page in Terry Riley’s program note for “Eureka!” the late-night opening event for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s West Coast, Left Coast festival Saturday... -
Leonard Slatkin cancels Disney Hall appearances for December
Culture MonsterLeonard Slatkin isn't in the clear yet as far as his health is concerned. Earlier this month, the conductor experienced a heart attack while conducting a concert in the Netherlands. According to a report, he felt chest pains while on...... -
John Adams, the L.A. Phil's other new kid
Culture MonsterWhat does a renowned, Harvard-educated, Pulitzer Prize-winning classical music composer say just after the standing-ovation world premiere of his new symphony “City Noir” at Walt Disney Concert Hall, performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the... -
Gustavo Dudamel's West Coast, Left Coast concert
Culture MonsterIn politics, Californians still quarrel over immigration issues. The arts know better. Ours is a state made with the critical input of others. And if our music is characterized by one thing, it is its openness to outside influences. We...... -
Music Review: Frank Zappa Green Umbrella concert at Disney Hall
Culture MonsterClearly, the West Coast, Left Coast festival would have been remiss without nodding to Frank Zappa, one of Los Angeles' greatest and least easily categorized musical mavericks, whose work was the star of Tuesday’s Green Umbrella concert at Walt Disney.....
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