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Review: Kay Larson's inspirational 'Where the Heart Beats'
-------------------- Where the Heart Beats John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists Kay Larson Penguin: 477 pp., $29.95 -------------------- In the late 1940s and early 1950s, composer John Cage underwent related crises in his...
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Israel Baker, renowned violinist, dies at 92
As concertmaster for the orchestra that recorded the soundtrack for the movie "Psycho," classical violinist Israel Baker helped create a piece of pop culture that is regarded as one of Hollywood's most terrifying. He led the piercing attack of the violins...Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Culture, Gregor Piatigorsky, Movies, Jack Benny
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NEH grants $1.4 million in California; funds small-venue exhibits
Culture MonsterThe National Endowment for the Humanities has issued $21 million in grants, including $2.1 million to renew a traveling exhibition program geared toward small museums. California accounted for $1.4 million in grants.... -
Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Dec. 7, 1940
The Daily MirrorDec. 7, 1940: Yes, the bell on traffic semaphores in the old Warner Bros. cartoons wasnât a joke. Today, we just honk since drivers are usually checking their BlackBerrys when the light turns green. The audience walks out on the...... -
Peter Lieberson dies at 64; American composer
Peter Lieberson, an American composer who wrote his most inspired songs for his great love, the late mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, died Saturday of complications from lymphoma at a hospital in Tel Aviv, where he had been receiving treatment. He...Tags: Columbia University, Concerts, Diseases and Illnesses, Entertainment, Yo-Yo Ma
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Ojai music director George Benjamin in a familiar spot
George Benjamin undertook his first visit to Ojai last January, but in some ways, the trip must have seemed like a homecoming for the celebrated British composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. The freak storms that pounded the normally bucolic...Tags: Arts and Culture, John Adams, Pierre Boulez, Dmitri Shostakovich, Entertainment
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L.A.'s 'Ring' circus
Next spring, the Los Angeles Opera will stage its first complete production of Richard Wagner's monumental four-opera cycle, "Der Ring des Nibelungen." In conjunction with those performances, more than 70 arts, cultural and educational institutions will...Tags: Justice System, Theater, Lawyers, Thomas Mann, Recording Industry Association of America
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Philip Langridge dies at 70; versatile British tenor
Times Staff And Wire ReportsPhilip Langridge, the British tenor who won praise for his vocal versatility and subtle characterization, has died. He was 70. Langridge died Friday after a short battle with cancer, the Royal Opera House announced. His death "leaves a large hole in the...Tags: Engelbert Humperdinck, Awards and Prizes, Music Industry, Opera (genre), Music
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Music review: Gloria Cheng and Piano Spheres at Zipper Hall
Culture MonsterPiano Spheres, one of the Los Angeles classical music landscape???s more surprising and also inspiring success stories, began humbly 16 years ago, and the seeds have fully flowered. Launched at Pasadena???s Neighborhood Church by the late, legendary... -
Berlin Philharmonic by way of the World Wide Web
Culture MonsterWant to see the Berlin Philharmonic this week at Disney Hall, but finding the tickets limited and pricey? Wish that Hulu could stream Rachmaninoff along with â30 Rockâ? In either case, the Berliners, who appear tonight and Tuesday at Walt...... -
Eighth blackbird lands at Ojai Music Festival
The Ojai Music Festival has a long tradition of picking some of the era's most important artists to serve as its music director, a position that rotates annually. But though the festival has sometimes chosen more than one person at a time for the job,...Tags: Steve Reich, Wallace Stevens, University of Chicago, Arts and Culture, Pierre Boulez
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Leon Kirchner dies at 90; Pulitzer-winning composer
Leon Kirchner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of expressive, rigorous, atonal yet romantic music, died Thursday of congestive heart failure at his home in New York. He was 90.
A pianist and conductor as well as a composer, Kirchner stood somewhat...Tags: John Adams, Journalism, Roger Sessions, Saul Bellow, Awards and Prizes
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