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Review: Neville Marriner conducts Colburn Orchestra in tribute
Before conducting the Colburn Orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Sunday night, across the street from the newly renamed Colburn Way (one block of 2nd Street), the renowned British conductor Neville Marriner was handed the Richard D. Colburn Award in...
Tags: Education, Culture, Lone (music group), Music Theater, Walt Disney
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Music review: Mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin at AT&T Center Theatre
Culture MonsterMark Swed reviews the exceptional mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin, who, blind, sings with eyes wide shut.... -
Movie review: Rachel Weisz a passionate force in 'Deep Blue Sea'
"The Deep Blue Sea" shows us where love has gone, reveals the dark and despairing places where ardor has shipwrecked and run aground. Exceptionally well-made and completely fearless in its depiction of the widest range of romantic emotions, this is a film...Tags: Barbara Jefford, Germany, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Terence Davies, Eddie Fisher
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Music review: Gloria Cheng opens Piano Spheres’ 18th season
Culture MonsterRick Schultz reviews Gloria Cheng's Piano Spheres recital at the Colburn School's Zipper Hall... -
PASSINGS: Pauline Betz Addie, Giorgio Tozzi, Harry Redmond Jr., James Woodress, Mark Dantzler
Pauline Betz Addie
1940s tennis champion in Hall of Fame
Pauline Betz Addie, 91, a champion tennis player who won Wimbledon in 1946 without dropping a set during the entire tournament, died Tuesday at an assisted-living facility in Potomac, Md., the...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, French Open, Entertainment, Heart Attack, Fiction
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Music review: a Pasadena Symphony restart
Culture MonsterThe Pasadena Symphony is Old Faithful no more. This once ever-reliable orchestra was founded in 1928. It played, for most of its history, in Pasadena Civic Auditorium, building a tradition with music directors who remained often for decades. Richard... -
Music review: Jacaranda and America at First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica
Culture MonsterJacaranda, the Santa Monica new music series, began its season over the weekend with “strong sincere voices nurtured while America was inventing itself afresh,” as wrote artistic director Patrick Scott in his detailed program notes. Such invention... -
Dance review: Martha Graham Dance Company at South Coast Repertory
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Lukas Foss, versatile and prolific American composer, dies at 86
Lukas Foss, the polyglot American composer, conductor and pianist who directed half a dozen Ojai Music Festivals, led marathon concerts at the Hollywood Bowl and succeeded Arnold Schoenberg as head of composition at UCLA, has died. He was 86.
Foss died...Tags: Arnold Schoenberg, Gian Carlo Menotti, Marathon, Obituaries, Aaron Copland
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In New York, City Opera tries to turn a page
Culture MonsterIf judged only by the Dom Perignon flowing in the lobby and the American melodies flowing from the stage last night at the State Theatre -- which for the next 50 years, it was announced, will be named “The David...... -
Gil Shaham is drawn to works from the 1930s
Unless you happen to be David Letterman, little of value tends to come from making top 10 lists. But violinist Gil Shaham has lately turned this common time-waster into something of a consuming passion, and music lovers are the beneficiaries.
One of...Tags: William Bolcom, John F. Williams, Walt Disney, Music Industry, Marin Alsop
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Acclaimed conductor DePreist to advise troubled Pasadena Symphony and Pops
Culture MonsterThe economically troubled, controversy-racked Pasadena Symphony and Pops announced Wednesday that it has hired an artistic advisor – and, for two October concerts , a conductor -- in James DePreist, who led the Oregon Symphony for more than 20 years.......
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