Pop & Hiss
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July 11, 2011
Entertainment & Arts
Perhaps because of the years “Hairspray” costume designer Rita Ryack spent creating wardrobes for Broadway musicals, she approached her latest project like a choral director — a food-obsessed one.
July 23, 2007
The Music Center Operating Co. has announced the election of Charles I.
Oct. 27, 1986
Music
The Justice Department has served or is expected to serve the nation’s four major music companies with subpoenas stemming from an investigation of online music pricing, said sources at the companies, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
March 3, 2006
It seems an unlikely pairing: the jazz combo that, in the ‘50s, began donning tuxedos to bring music into the concert halls, and the string quartet that, sans formal wear, went beyond the usual classical repertoire to perform jazz, ethnic and experimental compositions, even rock ‘n’ roll.
April 21, 1990
Obituaries
Charles I. Schneider was a former leader of the Music Center Operating Co., which oversaw the downtown performing arts center. He became a vice president with Times Mirror, former owner of the Los Angeles Times.
April 17, 2012
Once a student of Martha Graham and Eugene Loring, Japanese choreographer Akiko Ishii has now returned to these shores with a brand of modern dance that uses the probing psychological dance drama, imaginative scenic elements and formal movement style that have largely fallen into disuse in Western modern dance since Ishii’s studies here in the ‘50s.
Oct. 24, 1988
Travel & Experiences
INCA, a Peruvian ensemble, and Lola Montes and her Spanish dancers will perform Saturday at Saddleback College’s McKinney Theatre.
Sept. 13, 1994
Awards
Grammys 2013: Gotye’s ‘Making Mirrors’ wins alternative music award
Feb. 10, 2013
Charles I. Schneider dies at 89; former Times Mirror executive