How Kamasi Washington and 100 musicians filled LACMA’s empty new building with a sonic work of art
“The general public was admitted to new Los Angeles County Museum of Art for the first time on Friday night — not to look at art but to listen to ...
Tag: Classical Music
Swans, Gupta and ballet on makeshift stage: The Southern California dance superbloom
Los Angeles is neither a dance center nor a dance desert. We don’t have much of a history of nourishing major ballet companies. We do have a plethora of smaller ...
Esa-Pekka Salonen leaves the troubled San Francisco Symphony with Mahler’s call for ‘Resurrection’
SAN FRANCISCO — Saturday night, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted his San Francisco Symphony in a staggering performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, known as the “Resurrection.” It was a ferocious performance and an ...
‘I have no fear’: L.A. Opera lovers attend shows in downtown L.A. despite protests
Hours before downtown Los Angeles headed into its sixth night under curfew orders imposed by L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, dozens of opera and theater fans funneled into the Music Center ...
Why this year’s Ojai Music Festival was one of the best
OJAI — You can’t escape nature in Ojai. That meant that flutist Claire Chase, this year’s Ojai Music Festival music director who is often called a force of nature, fit right in. ...
Downtown L.A. curfew update: City carves out exemptions for L.A. Opera and the Mark Taper Forum
Los Angeles city officials on Thursday carved out a curfew exemption for ticket holders of indoor events and performing arts venues downtown including the Music Center, paving the way for ...
Protests and curfew cancel L.A. Phil and ‘Hamlet’ as arts groups’ losses mount
When Mayor Karen Bass on Tuesday issued a curfew for downtown L.A. after the chaos of some ICE protests over the weekend, an unwelcome side effect took hold: Arts organizations ...
There’s more to Korean music than K-Pop. Young composers show how in L.A. Phil’s Seoul Festival
K-pop. Oscar-celebrated cinema. Samsung in the living room. Political urgency in the press. However prominent Korean culture seems to be, there is surprising lack of coverage of the classical scene ...
Fascism and a clown suit: L.A. Opera’s gripping new ‘Rigoletto’
Though mean-spirited, the jester Rigoletto — Verdi’s hapless, vengeful hunchback — wins our hearts as the outsider whom a heartless world so often abuses. “Rigoletto” remains an opera reminding us ...
Dr. Gustavo Dudamel leads the New York Philharmonic, with L.A. style
New York — After triumphantly bringing the Los Angeles Philharmonic to Coachella, Gustavo Dudamel is taking his biggest bite so far out of the Big Apple. He is in town for a ...
