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Music review: Vicky Ray at Piano Spheres recital at Zipper Hall
Culture MonsterTuesday at Zipper Hall, in her annual appearance at Piano Spheres, contemporary music heroine Vicki Ray upped the freshness ante by stocking her entire program with world premieres, including a rare piece with Ray’s own name in the composer role... -
Recital planned as Ojai Music Festival gears up for 2012 edition
Culture MonsterThe Ojai Music Festival -- one of the country's premier venues for new music -- will feature a typically eclectic line-up for its 2012 edition, curated by pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. Prior to the summer festival, organizers will host a one-evening gala... -
Ojai Music Festival names future music directors, including Leif Ove Andsnes and Mark Morris
Culture MonsterLeif Ove Andsnes, Mark Morris and Jeremy Denk named future music directors for Ojai festival... -
Influences: Los Angeles composer Hugh Levick
Culture MonsterHear Now: A Festival of New Music by Contemporary Los Angeles Composers will offer pieces by a few well-known figures -– provocative British transplant Thomas Adès, longtime USC professor Stephen Hartke, someone named Esa-Pekka Salonen -– as... -
Rene Pape: Rock star?
Culture MonsterWell, sort of. A profile in the Sunday Arts & Books section of bass-of-the-moment René Pape mentions his recording of an orchestral song cycle based on the songs of German industrial metal band Rammstein. " 'Mein Herz brennt' was a...... -
George Crumb hears the heartbeat of America
Reporting from Media, Pa. —
Despite having turned 81 less than three weeks ago, American composer George Crumb remains deeply absorbed in his craft. The native of Charleston, W.V., has been nestled in his suburban Philadelphia home for 45 years....Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Music Industry, Native Americans, University of Pennsylvania, Entertainment
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Ariel Pink is firmly in control of Haunted Graffiti
Ariel Pink seems quintessentially L.A. He's lived virtually his entire life in Los Angeles and can't imagine living anywhere else. He's written songs with titles like "Beverly Kills" and "Life in L.A.," and echoes of the city's musical past reverberate...Tags: Cults and Sects, Fleetwood Mac (music group), Death, VH1 (tv network), Goth (genre)
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Music review: Carlsbad Music Festival 'L.A. Satellite Concert'
Culture MonsterIt may be too soon and too hyperbolic to declare Carlsbad as a new hotbed of contemporary classical music action. But as the sixth annual Carlsbad Music Festival unfolds this weekend featuring new music notables the Calder String Quartet, the...... -
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... -
Art review: Josh Kun at Steve Turner Contemporary
Culture MonsterJosh Kun???s smart exhibition in a small upstairs gallery at Steve Turner Contemporary focuses on two types of popular music made in Mexico and the United States in the 1960s. With great clarity, ???Last Exit USA??? demonstrates that culture is...... -
Snap Judgment: Adam Lambert, 'For Your Entertainment'
Pop & HissThe first single and title t rack from Adam Lambert's soon-to-be-dropped debut album couldn't be more of an announcement. "For Your Entertainment" strides into the room, snaps its fingers and declares 2010 the year of Our Gorgeously Airbrushed Overlord.... -
Rihanna's 'Russian Roulette' is loaded -- but what does it say?
Pop & HissFor much of her career, Rihanna was seen as being not entirely herself. From her high-profile signing during Jay-Zâs Def Jam tenure to her steely, minimalist presence on blustery tracks by the-Dream and Tricky and Ne-Yo, Rihannaâs most successful...
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