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Music review: L.A. Master Chorale's folk music program at Disney Hall
Culture MonsterGrant Gershonâs term at the head of the Los Angeles Master Chorale has been mostly noted for his expansion into new music, in parallel to what has been going on at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He knows it, saying he...... -
Album review: 'Twistable, Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute to the Songs of Shel Silverstein'
Pop & HissOnce upon a time, there lived a crazily talented man named Shel Silverstein, known for his bald head, bushy beard and large, wild eyes â perceptive tools with which he surveyed the world and then turned what he saw into...... -
A look at new paintings by Bob Dylan
Culture MonsterBob Dylan has shape-shifted more times in his career than any other pop musician. His music has always reflected that need to seek out new forms of self-expression. What's less known is that his paintings function in the same way...... -
Larry Gelbart's 1951 'My L.A.' Found
The Daily MirrorNov. 25, 1951: Rehearsals of "My L.A.," sketches inspired by Matt Weinstock's book, with a script by Larry Gelbart, Laurence Marks and Bill Manhoff. You may recall this photo from the posts I did about the death of Larry Gelbart. "My L.A." was a 1951 show... -
Susan Reed dies at 84; singer and harpist-zitherist
Susan Reed, a singer and harpist-zitherist who was a star of the post- World War II folk music scene, died Sunday. She was 84.
Reed died of natural causes at a nursing home in Greenport, N.Y., said publicist Dale Olson.
By age 19, Reed was such a...Tags: Martha Graham, World War II (1939-1945), Carl Sandburg, Family
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Album review: The Avett Brothers' 'I and Love and You'
Pop & HissFor the Avett Brothers, bluegrass is hard-core, and country is emo. This North Carolina band plows a familiar field by blending folk idioms with punk, playing against the surface incongruities of the two forms while unearthing the deeper connections.... -
Linda Perhacs, L.A. Ladies Choir and more perform at the New L.A. Folk Festival
Pop & HissThe reliable story about L.A. folk music is that it emerged in the â60s from the eucalyptus-scented mists of Laurel Canyon, its core members and hangers-on outfitted in belt-grazing beards and flowing white dresses. And while the small but passionate...... -
Dave Fisher dies at 69; founding member and lead singer of the 1960s folk group the Highwaymen
Dave Fisher, founding member and lead singer of the 1960s folk group the Highwaymen, whose recording of the Civil War anti-slavery song "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" became a surprise pop hit in 1962, has died. He was 69.
Fisher died Friday at his...Tags: Entertainment, The Beach Boys, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings
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Mike Seeger dies at 75: Versatile musician was major influence on folk music revival
Mike Seeger, a folk musician, music historian and collector of traditional music who was a major influence on the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, died Friday of multiple myeloma at his home in Lexington, Va. He was 75. The younger half brother...Tags: Education, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, University of California, Los Angeles, Death
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PASSINGS
Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy Expert on the music of India Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, 81, the founding chairman and professor emeritus of UCLA's department of ethnomusicology, died June 20 of lung cancer at his home in Van Nuys, according to the university. With his...Tags: Science and Technology, Geography, India, Classical Music (genre), University of California, Los Angeles
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Kate McGarrigle dies at 63; Canadian folk singer and songwriter
Kate McGarrigle, the Canadian singer and songwriter who, with her sister Anna, recorded a string of critically acclaimed albums of literate and wistfully romantic homespun songs and then became the proud matriarch of an extended folk-rock-pop musical...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Science and Technology, Emmylou Harris, Dining and Drinking, Montreal (Canada)
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Derek Bermel with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Culture MonsterNothing quite haunts some of todayâs composers like the disturbing story of Béla Bartókâs last five years. In 1940 he fled Nazi-influenced Budapest and moved to New York, where he lived in illness, obscurity and poverty. Young children threw...
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