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A surprising, welcome sight: An informal new music festival hits L.A.
Culture MonsterA guide to some of the unusual new music events happening in and around Los Angeles the first weeks of summer.... -
L.A. Master Chorale's Korean cantata/song cycle/concerto
Culture MonsterL. A. Master Chorale's Korean cantata/song cycle/concerto.... -
Music review: Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble stop off at Walt Disney Concert Hall
Culture MonsterMark Swed reviews Yo-Yo Ma with the Silk Road Ensemble at Walt Disney Concert Hall... -
Culture Watch: What's new in music and magazines
Culture MonsterCDs “Lou Harrison: Music for Orchestra, Ensemble & Gamelan” (Nimbus Records): This four-CD set collects, at a budget price, the long out-of-print classic recordings that conductor Dennis Russell Davies made in the late ’80s and early ’90s of... -
Music review: Finally, a party for Betty Freeman
Culture MonsterThe first major music news of 2009 was the death on Jan. 4 of the great patron Betty Freeman at 87 in Beverly Hills. Modern music would not be what it is today without her. She commissioned hundreds of new...... -
Music review: A great pianist once more flies under the radar
Culture MonsterChristopher Taylor is the overpopulation pianist. He has a common name, which means he has a lot of company on Internet searches. His handful of obscure, independent recordings have such amateurish graphics that he would be easy to dismiss as...... -
Mills College, a school without walls
Music CriticFor the last seven decades, Mills College, which will celebrate the renovation of its gorgeous Spanish-style concert hall with a gala concert Feb. 21, has provided a haven for a remarkable number of cutting-edge composers. No matter how academically...Tags: James Brown, Employment, Electronica (genre), Luciano Berio, Career and Workplace
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Live: Chanticleer on 'Mission Road' in San Luis Obispo
Times Music CriticSAN LUIS OBISPO -- On a balmy evening here Thursday, the dozen men of Chanticleer, dressed in identical stylish dark suits, began a slow procession down the aisle of the San Luis Obispo de Tolosa mission, founded in 1772. It was a solemn, beautiful,...Tags: John Cage, DVDs and Movies, Harry Partch, Ceremonies, Society
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Jacaranda series blossoms again
Times Music CriticA Lou Harrison craze has appeared frustratingly just around the corner ever since this poster boy for gorgeous nonconformist California music died in 2003. Friday night Jacaranda, Santa Monica's new music series, opened its new season with a half-Harrison...Tags: Olivier Messiaen, University of California, Los Angeles, John Cage, Death, Harry Partch
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A golden, global evening with chorale
Music CriticSunday night, Walt Disney Concert Hall was full yet it was empty. The Los Angeles Master Chorale performed. But there was no feeling, no perception, no sound. No pure intonation and no impure intonation. No increase in volume and no decrease in volume. It...Tags: University of California, Crimes, Cambodia, Health and Safety at School, Entertainment
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John Adams tries to find the words
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhen John Adams, the celebrated composer who is to his adopted California as Sibelius is to Finland, decided to write a memoir of his life and music, he realized there was virtually no model for his project. "Most composers," he said over lunch at an...Tags: Health, Allen Ginsberg, John Donne, Leonard Bernstein, Depression
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Gustavo Dudamel's West Coast, Left Coast concert
Culture MonsterIn politics, Californians still quarrel over immigration issues. The arts know better. Ours is a state made with the critical input of others. And if our music is characterized by one thing, it is its openness to outside influences. We......
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