Mark Swed, Music Critic
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Walt Disney Concert Hall is, as always at this time of year, decked out for Christmas and Hanukkah and in glittery expectation of New Year’s Eve.
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We tell stories. We express our emotions.
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As the fourth-largest opera company in the U.S., Los Angeles Opera is not exactly a mom-and-pop operation.
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Japan’s national confidence has clearly suffered lately, beginning with the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and followed by the current economic recession and the air bag scandal.
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The Los Angeles Philharmonic does not believe in miracles.
