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Music Review: John Adams goes for ecstasy in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's West Coast, Left Coast festival
Culture MonsterCalifornia is big and ungovernable, and there are many theories as to why we are the way we are. Phil Lesh, the thoughtful Grateful Dead bassist, had a good one Saturday afternoon. Every culture has run downhill to California, he...... -
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...... -
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: John Cage, Career and Workplace, Dave Brubeck, William Bolcom, Columbia University
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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, Dance, Crime, Law and Justice, Cambodia, Buddhism
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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: John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, Music Industry, University of California, Los Angeles, Harry Partch
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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: John Cage, Leonard Bernstein, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Emily Dickinson, Depression
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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, Ceremonies, DVDs and Movies, Music Industry, Harry Partch
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Performing Rauschenberg
Times Staff WriterOn Dec. 7, 1992, the New York Philharmonic celebrated its 150th anniversary by unveiling a poster it had commissioned from Robert Rauschenberg. An attractive, if slightly innocuous, silk-screen collage, it is instantly recognizable as a Rauschenberg. In...Tags: John Cage, Glenn Gould, Dance, Culture, Arts
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Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble: "Make music, not war"
Gazette Staff WriterThe Virginia Arts Festival presents Yo-Yo Ma and the "Silk Road Ensemble," in concert at Chrysler Hall, Feb. 25. "Make music, not war" was easily the idealized subtext of the eagerly anticipated appearance of celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his "Silk...Tags: Festive Events, Ferguson Center for the Arts, Music Industry, John Lennon, China
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Items Stolen From George Harrison's Sister
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Pictures of former Beatle George Harrison were taken from his sister's car while she was donating memorabilia to the Clinton Presidential Library, she said Monday. Lou Harrison said someone shattered a window of her car and stole a...Tags: Crimes, The Beatles (music group), Crime, Law and Justice, George Harrison
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An original composition
Times Staff WriterA single, elegant vase sat in the kitchen window of the high desert retreat built by late composer Lou Harrison. As the first light of day crept in, documentary filmmaker and concert promoter Eva Soltes, who worked with Harrison on numerous projects over...Tags: Architecture, Keith Jarrett, Concerts, Building Material, Metal and Mineral
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Lou Harrison's music
For a sampling of Lou Harrison's music, go to musicmavericks.org/listening to hear a San Francisco Symphony concert — conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas — devoted to his works. An interview with the composer also is on the site. Notable CDs...Tags: Keith Jarrett, Music Industry, Mark Morris, John Schneider
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