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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,...... -
Gary Lucas discusses Don Van Vliet's legacy in advance of Thursday's Captain Beefheart Symposium
Pop & HissLongtime Captain Beefheart guitarist-manager Gary Lucas will present a symposium on the life and legacy of the artist otherwise known as Don Van Vliet, who died Dec. 17, at the Echoplex at 8 p.m. Jan. 13. Special guests Kristine McKenna,...... -
Fall preview: books
Los Angeles Times Book CriticFall, it seems, starts earlier every year. Certainly, that's true of publishing: Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom" — arguably the big book of the season — has been a topic of discussion since mid-August, while other anticipated titles (Tom...Tags: Barack Obama, Internists, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Documentary (genre)
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Dudamel tackles Verdi's Requiem
Culture MonsterGustavo Dudamel is back in town, and Thursday night he conducted a magnificently theatrical performance of Verdiâs Requiem that felt like his first real concert as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. All Los Angeles, of course, knows that...... -
[Updated] Music review: Toy pianos and Piano Spheres at Disney Hall
Culture MonsterFor the occasion of the Los Angeles Philharmonicâs ongoing West Coast, Left Coast series, the 16-year-old Piano Spheres recital series was invited to the party. The invitation was logical enough, given the seriesâ contemporary focus and often West... -
American musicians bond with Vietnamese counterparts
When Southwest Chamber Music became the first American ensemble since the Vietnam War to set up a musical residency in Vietnam in 2006, artistic director Jeff von der Schmidt had high hopes that the two countries -- forever tied through history and war --...Tags: Music Industry, Olivier Messiaen, Companies and Corporations, Contemporary Music (genre), Music Theater
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Live: Sonic Youth at the Wiltern Theatre
Pop & HissUnruly sonic storms still form the heart of the veteran band's live show, even as it focuses on the present rather than the influential albums of its youth. Sonic Youth has traveled far with the sounds of beauty and noise,...... -
Music review: Dudamel is back
Culture MonsterThursday night, Gustavo Dudamel conducted Leonard Bernsteinâs âAge of Anxietyâ Symphony without undo angst at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The happiest conductor in America has come home. When Dudamel took over the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the end... -
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...... -
Baryshnikov to join Merce Cunningham Dance Company for benefit at REDCAT [updated]
Culture MonsterTwo of the dance world's great artists will share a stage -- one in person, the other through the troupe he founded more than half a century ago -- when Mikhail Baryshnikov joins the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for a...... -
'Roaratorio' restored, coming to Disney Hall
Culture MonsterFueled on Guinness, John Cage undertook one of the most daunting tasks of his hardly undaunting career when he decided to make, for West German Radio, a soundscape of James Joyceâs âFinnegans Wake.â He traveled around Ireland for a month,...... -
Dance review: Merce Cunningham's 'Roaratorio' at Disney Hall
Culture MonsterA lot of people in contemporary dance feel secretly relieved that choreographer Merce Cunningham is no longer around. Yes, yes, Cunningham, who died July 2009 at age 90, was a beloved father-figure and mentor in the modern dance world. But......
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