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Ellen Reid’s “Floodplain” for L.A. Chamber Orchestra and Gabriela Ortiz’s “Altar de Cuerta” for the L.A. Phil put environmental art in new contexts.
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Music by composers from Ukraine or with Ukrainian heritage is, and has long been, all around us.
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Native American composer Raven Chacon’s “Voiceless Mass” for organ ensemble is the winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for music.
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The L.A. Philharmonic begins a survey of Stravinsky and Latin American ballets with a landmark work that demonstrates Dudamel’s musical mastery.
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Thomas Adès curated the L.A. Phil’s Gen X festival, a celebration of visionaries from that generation. A highlight: his orchestral “Dante.”
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Harrison Birtwistle, Louis Andriessen, Frederic Rzewski, George Crumb, Alvin Lucier, William Kraft: They came to prominence in the 1960s. May their sounds live on.
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Radu Lupu, the Romanian pianist who died on April 17, looked like an anarchist and played like a god.
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Gustavo Dudamel returns to the L.A. Phil to lead a new production of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” with Deaf West Theatre.
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This week, L.A. Opera premieres “In Our Daughter’s Eyes,” a new one-man opera by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun; “Everything Rises,” commissioned by the UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures series and featuring Davóne Tines and the violinist Jennifer Koh, also opened.
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Did authors Thomas Mann and Theodor Adorno have a tiff at the Brentwood Country Mart? Given the intellectual firepower of postwar Brentwood, probably.
