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Music review: James Gaffigan's Los Angeles Philharmonic debut
Culture MonsterMark Swed reviews the Los Angeles Philharmonic debut of James Gaffigan, the latest impressive young conductor on a career fast-track to drop by Walt Disney Concert Hall.... -
Franz Liszt at 200
Culture MonsterMark Swed looks back at the Liszt year.... -
Music review: Thibaudet and Harth-Bedoya with the L.A. Phil
Culture MonsterMark Swed reviews the Los Angeles Philharmonic's numinous performance of Saint-Saëns' "Organ Symphony," conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya and Liszt's Second Piano concerto with Jean-Yves Thibaudet as brilliant soloist.... -
Monster Mash: Jim Parsons returning to Broadway?; 'Finding Neverland'
Culture MonsterJim Parsons, who stars in TV's "The Big Bang Theory," is in talks for a Broadway revival of "Harvey." "Finding Neverland," the new musical that was canceled at the La Jolla Playhouse, will have workshop productions in London.... -
Conductor Leonard Slatkin: Looking forward after two rough years
Culture MonsterIn his last two turbulent years Leonard Slatkin saw himself skewered for an opening-night performance at the Met and months before that scandal he suffered a heart attack on the podium in Rotterdam. And then there was that strike in Detroit.... -
Music review: Leonard Slatkin returns to the Hollywood Bowl
Culture MonsterLeonard Slatkin returned to the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday night to fulfill the Los Angeles Philharmonic's obligation to celebrate Liszt's 200th birthday, which is this. Long-time Lisztian André Watts was soloist in the Second Piano Concerto.... -
Monster Mash: New director for Art Institute of Chicago
Culture MonsterDouglas Druick to head Art Institute of Chicago... -
Music review: L.A. Phil with Slatkin, Olga Kern at Hollywood Bowl
Culture MonsterRick Schultz reviews Leonard Slatkin conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic with pianist Olga Kern at the Hollywood Bowl... -
Wynton Marsalis swings for the fences
Wynton Marsalis is explaining jazz to me by talking about my boots. He is coming to Walt Disney Concert Hall this weekend to play his ambitious new composition, "Swing Symphony," with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. But before we get into musical details,...Tags: Richard Strauss, George Gershwin, African Americans, Bill Cosby, William Faulkner
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Jazz-classical fusion a work in progress
Jazz people like to brag that their idiom is "America's classical music." But if you catch some of them in a certain mood, you'll find that they long to merge their art with what much of the Western world calls "classical music" — the idiom that...Tags: Kurt Weill, Dave Brubeck, Classical Music (genre), Darius Milhaud, Wynton Marsalis
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Bramwell Tovey mixes a mean musical cocktail
— It's tempting to call Bramwell Tovey the Noel Coward of conductors.
In the past decade the native Brit has become renowned for his droll and witty remarks from concert stages.
In June, as host of the New York Philharmonic Summertime Classics...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Concerts, World War II (1939-1945), Fashion Shows, London (England)
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Music review: Leonard Slatkin and Sarah Chang return to the Hollywood Bowl for Shostakovich [updated]
Culture MonsterAfter having spent a weekend devoted to Tchaikovsky with its current principal guest conductor for the Hollywood Bowl, Bramwell Tovey, the Los Angeles Philharmonic went from an eagerly cheerless and iconic 19th century Russian composer to a 20th century...
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