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Randy Rainbow, Wynton Marsalis and Elvis Costello support a storied jazz club. Musical fans are invited to a “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” watch party.
Composer Peter Boyer talks about the call to write “Fanfare for Tomorrow,” which will be played Wednesday by the United States Marine Band.
The overdue creation of a Cabinet-level Secretary of Culture would give the country a lift we all crave. Here’s who I think would rise to the challenge.
L.A.'s California African American Museum holds a remembrance with music and a study group, and a Santa Monica concert centers on Black composers.
Offerings also include Bernadette Peters and David Hyde Pierce in a Jerry Herman tribute, Philip Glass, a “Waltons” reunion and an L.A. dance festival.
The 25-part series in which great works of classical music tapped troubled times, in all its complexities, surprised even this critic about how great art endures.
Snoop Dogg, Matthew McConaughey and Cardi B are also among the stars moving New Year’s Eve celebrations online.
With “Sun Rings,” Terry Riley used NASA recordings from space to tap into our universal hopes — and push the string quartet into new territory.
The 1710 Amati violin was lifted from a California art dealer’s car, which was parked outside his home in L.A.'s Los Feliz.
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Messiaen’s divine “Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jesus” (“Twenty Gazes Upon the Child Jesus”) carries the spirit we need now, more than ever.
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What the acquisition of Williams’ archive could reveal about the little-studied architect. Plus, “Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical” and Kennedy Center Honors in our weekly arts newsletter.
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The Neoclassical Capitol serves as stage to a riot. Plus, a doc about Rembrandt and a George Floyd billboard revived, in our weekly arts newsletter.
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We look ahead to 2021 with musings on music, theater and art — and a poignant poem from L.A.-based artist Kade L. Twist — in our weekly arts newsletter.
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Who would have thought that performing via cameras and screens could make me feel so close to my audience? No one is more surprised than I.
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This week our most essential composer, Ludwig van Beethoven — unless you care to call him Louis van Beethoven, as a new German biopic does — marks what would have been his 250th birthday.
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Get ready for the musical equivalent of 250 candles and a year’s supply of cake. Beethoven 250 has brought a bevy of new music and books. Here are the best.
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The moratorium designation adds Chicano history to L.A.'s historic sites. Plus, controversy at MOLAA and what we lost and found in 2020 — in our weekly arts newsletter
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What to watch while celebrating Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year’s Eve? Our mega-list hits all the favorites, plus some wildcards.
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Drive-in music, holiday food fest, family-friendly light displays and, yes, an Elf on the Shelf.
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In the quest for better Black representation, orchestras and opera companies are improving diversity in superficial ways. Here’s how they could do better.
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For Southern California theater and dance companies, the hurt caused by COVID-19 closures goes beyond lost ticket sales.
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Brahms vs. Wagner has long been framed as conservative vs. progressive. Let’s ditch the labels and listen to the music, starting with this Piano Quintet.
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This year’s list is devoted to pandemic doers: Dudamel, Salonen, Sharon. Gehry, Borda, Kopatchinskaja, Sorey, Gupta, Grazinyte-Tyla and Edmunds.
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An interview with an architect who imagined Trump’s library. Cuba’s artist crackdown. Plus, your thoughts on virtual arts and Lou Harrison’s generosity, in our weekly arts newsletter
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After surviving nearly a year of darts and undermining comments from former President Trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci is back
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Dozens of clinics have cropped up around the U.S. to address a puzzling and troubling aspect of COVID-19 — the after-effects that can stubbornly afflict some people weeks or months after the infection itself has subsided.
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It is not yet known whether the new coronavirus variant is more contagious, but it is becoming increasingly prevalent in Northern California.
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In his first full day as president, Joe Biden signals a more assertive federal role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Fresh from her breakout performance at the inauguration, poet Amanda Gorman bonds with Anderson Cooper over “Hamilton” and their shared speech impediments.
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She became the national youth poet laureate at age 16; six years later, she read her poem at Joe Biden’s and Kamala Harris’ historic swearing-in.
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With one half of this Verzuz battle’s participants recovered from COVID-19, it’s time for the rescheduled faceoff between R&B divas Keyshia Cole and Ashanti tonight.
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Joe Exotic, star of the hit Netflix series ‘Tiger King,’ went into attack mode Wednesday after being denied a presidential pardon from Donald Trump.
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Manmade wetlands in South L.A. make a convincing habitat, and winter hiking trails to put on your to-do list.
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Don Sutton, one of the most consistent pitchers in Dodgers history, died this week at age 75.
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