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Influences: Mark Alan Hilt of Jacaranda
Since its founding in 2003, Jacaranda has proved itself one of the best and most adventurous chamber music series in the country. Based at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica, Jacaranda offers a mix of new and old, with an emphasis on West Coast...
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Music review: Mark Robson's Piano Spheres recital
Culture MonsterMark Swed reviews Mark Robson's personal, insightful and amazingly pianistic take on piano music of the past 60 years in his Piano Spheres recital at Zipper Hall Tuesday night.... -
Music review: Georg Friedrich Haas' Green Umbrella premiere
Culture MonsterMark Swed review the U.S. premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas' mind-bending “chants oubliés,” It was part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Ensemble's first Green Umbrella program of the season.... -
Esa-Pekka Salonen wins the 2012 Grawemeyer Award
Culture MonsterEsa-Pekka Salonen's Violin Conerto is the 2012 winner of the Grawemeyer Award, the most prestigious international prize for a musical composition.... -
Music review: Marimba along the Camerata Pacifica
Culture MonsterThe egg scare is apparently over. As yet, we’ve heard of nothing avian to worry about in the upcoming flu season. So what’s a hypochondriac to do? Well, there is always marimba madness, a new contagion. Camerata Pacifica is among...... -
Performance review: Sardono Dance Theater and Jennifer Tipton at REDCAT
Culture MonsterMaking art isn’t easy, and for many artists the hardest part is getting started. The first invention must be a strategy for facing a blank page, canvas, computer screen. Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu’s ritual was to begin the day by...... -
Music review: Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall
Culture MonsterOn another blindingly bright morning Friday, the Walt Disney Concert Hall steel shimmered like an oasis in the hot, unshielded desert. The inside, though, was cooled by “riverrun.” Toru Takemitsu’s 15-minute score for piano and orchestra – the... -
Music review: Gustavo Dudamel conducts Bruckner and Webern
Culture MonsterGustavo Dudamel returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a program of Bruckner, Webern and Takemitsu.... -
Leonard Cohen wins Ninth Glenn Gould Prize
Culture MonsterGlenn Gould Prize goes to singer-writer Leonard Cohen... -
Music review: Tokyo String Quartet and Dilijan turn to Beethoven for healing
Culture MonsterMark Swed reviews the Tokyo String Quartet and Dilijan playing Beethoven's String Quartet No. 15.... -
Music review: Takemitsu film score tribute in jazz at Samueli Theater
Culture MonsterIt never took much to get Toru Takemitsu, the pioneering Japanese composer, drunk. A couple glasses of Scotch at a party after a concert could set him off on rambunctious descriptions of obscure Japanese science-fiction films. He knew them all,...... -
Music review: A harp and the Huntington from Southwest Chamber Music
Culture MonsterWhen New York's Plaza Hotel reopened its classic Palm Court for high tea last spring after an extensive renovation, the long-standing live harp was replaced by violin and piano. To quote the New York Post: "No more lugubrious harp." A......
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