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Diary of a YouTube Symphony tryout: Well, that was short!
Culture MonsterThree weeks. That was all the time I was supposed to need to get fit enough to make an audition video for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. I had barely touched my French horn since I quit playing in 2004 but...... -
Music review: Hilary Hahn wrangles Tchaikovsky with Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall
Culture MonsterIf Hilary Hahn seemed overly determined to have her way with Tchaikovsky on Friday night in Walt Disney Concert Hall, you could hardly blame her. The Russian composerâs violin concerto tends to pop up at least a couple of times...... -
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,...... -
Bruce Ricker dies at 68; jazz and blues documentarian
Documentary filmmaker Bruce Ricker didn't start out making films.
A native New Yorker who earned a law degree from Brooklyn Law School, he arrived in Kansas City in 1970 as a teaching assistant at the University of Missouri and soon began practicing law....Tags: Clint Eastwood, Thelonious Monk, Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert, Music Industry
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Culture Watch: What's new in music, DVDs and books
Culture MonsterBooks: âSeven Mozart Librettosâ (Norton): Poet J.D. McClatchy offers lyric verse translations of Mozartâs mature operas. They read wonderfully. â Mark Swed CDs: âIsaac Stern: Keeping the Doors Openâ (Sony Classical): This commemoration of... -
'Jerry Springer: The Opera' coming to Southern California
Culture MonsterOne of the more curious satires in recent memory, "Jerry Springer: The Opera" has entertained and befuddled theater audiences in London, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and other cities since premiering in 2003. Now the "opera" -- actually a stage...... -
A breakdown of the 2011 YouTube Symphony winners
Culture MonsterThe creation of the YouTube Symphony two years ago was intended to marry the populist, borderless ethos of online culture with the highly competitive nature of the classical-music world. The 2011 class of winners announced Tuesday shows that the YouTube..... -
'OCPAC' packs it in, changing name to Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Culture MonsterThe Orange County Performing Arts Center went out of existence Wednesday -- but not to worry if you were expecting to see Pinchas Zukerman and the Pacific Symphony there on Thursday. It's just the name that's gone, replaced by a...... -
Music review: Jacaranda blooms in winter
Culture MonsterThere was a slight nip in the air in Santa Monica, so Jacaranda, the new music series, took appropriate measures Saturday night to ensure the proper temperature level in the First Presbyterian Church for the first West Coast performance of...... -
Gustavo Dudamel with Vienna Philharmonic in free live webcast from Lucerne
Culture MonsterIn a little less than a month, Gustavo Dudamel will open the 2010-11 season of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall. At the moment, however, Dudamel is working with the Vienna Philharmonic in Europe, where he will...... -
Gustavo Dudamel and Vienna Philharmonic go to a small town in Kentucky. But why?
Culture MonsterOn Monday, Gustavo Dudamel will conduct the Vienna Philharmonic in Danville, Ky., a town of 18,000 right in the middle of thoroughbred country. Earlier in the day, the Venezuelan maestro be given the title of Kentucky Colonel. The story of...... -
Philharmonic Society of Orange County announces 2011-12 season
Culture MonsterThe Philharmonic Society of Orange County is announcing on Thursday its 2011-12 season, which will include appearances by major orchestras including the New York Philharmonic (with Alan Gilbert), the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (with Riccardo Muti), the...
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