Music
Festival caters to many tastes, from ‘80s punk to surf tunes. Headliner X sounds as fresh as any contemporary band.
Sept. 21, 1998
Entertainment & Arts
Even as Simon Rattle’s glamorous debut as the Berlin Philharmonic’s chief conductor occupies the international spotlight this fall, subsets within the orchestra continue their activities.
Nov. 5, 2002
World & Nation
The crowd panics in a tunnel at the crowded Love Parade rave in Germany. More than 200 are injured.
July 25, 2010
Ex-Philharmonic directors Mehta, Giulini and Previn had their share of post-L.A. problems. But they shine again on three new discs.
April 13, 1997
An alternate title for “Grand Hotel,” the musical that opened a six-day run at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa Tuesday, might be “As the Revolving Door Turns.”
April 4, 1991
Today’s local album reviews consider the brawny guitar rock of Trouble Dolls, the country-bluegrass splendor of California and its guitarist, Dan Crary, and tales of dashed romantic hopes from Carol Martini.
May 6, 1993
Hymen Arluck, a cantor’s son who grew up to become Harold Arlen, the composer who took the world “Over the Rainbow,” died Wednesday at his home in New York City Arlen, 81, who had suffered from cancer, died at his Manhattan home shortly after 4 p.m., and his body was found in bed by his son, Sam, a police spokesman said.
April 24, 1986
The simplistic notion that it was all creatively downhill for nearly a half-century after the success of the 19-year-old Dmitri Shostakovich’s wildly original First Symphony (1925) is rooted in the widely held feeling that none of his subsequent symphonies could quite equal its cheekiness--he was never 19 again--or its variety of mood.
July 9, 1989
Most of us have wells of patriotism that are rarely tapped.
July 31, 1985
Virtually the whole of the 50-year recording career of Herbert von Karajan, who recently turned 80, is now documented on compact disc.
Sept. 18, 1988