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Music review: Midori and Robert McDonald at Walt Disney Concert Hall
Culture MonsterThe violinist Midori and her longtime accompanist Robert McDonald opened their Walt Disney Concert Hall recital on Sunday with Mozart’s charming Sonata in G major. It was a lighthearted warm-up for what turned out to be a deeply serious program...... -
Wanda Wilk dies at 88; devoted champion of Polish classical music
Wanda Wilk, a philanthropist, musicologist and devoted champion of Polish classical music who co-founded the Polish Music Center at USC, has died. She was 88. Wilk died Feb. 18 at her Los Angeles home after a long illness, according to an announcement...Tags: University of Southern California, Basketball, Classical Music (genre), Death, Forest Lawn Memorial Park
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Odd staging can't disguise beauty of 'King Roger'
Times Music CriticANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. -- Every decade or so, I get my hopes up that Karol Szymanowski's ravishing "King Roger," Poland's one great opera, will finally catch on. In the '60s and '70s, mystically intense recordings of it slipped out of Soviet bloc...Tags: Education, Concerts, Museum of Modern Art, Sex, World War II (1939-1945)
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Orange County Performing Arts Center's 2010-11 Concert Series to showcase string quartets
Culture MonsterThe Orange County Performing Arts Center will celebrate the art and craft of string-quartet playing with its 2010-11 Concert Series. The five performances, all in Samueli Theater in Costa Mesa, will feature two ensembles in return engagements and three... -
Classical review, Concertante di Chicago's season opener at DePaul Concert Hall
Special to the TribuneImpressionism is so indelibly identified with the French that we tend to forget about the offshoots spawned by the examples of Debussy and Ravel. This oversight was addressed by Concertante di Chicago Sunday afternoon at the DePaul University Concert...Tags: Education, DePaul University, World War I (1914-1918), Arts, Music Industry
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