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  • Music: SOUND/STAGE SEASON 2 (Los Angeles Philharmonic)

    By Connor McCormick | March 5, 2021
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    We have the program for The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s second season of Sound/Stage, which begins today Friday, March 5, 2021, with new episodes released through June 25, 2021. With Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel acting as host, the free online series features new performances by the LA Phil; Common; gospel duo Mary Mary; opera…

  • Opera: LA HIJA DE RAPPACCINI (Chicago Opera Theater)

    By Connor McCormick | March 3, 2021
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    Chicago Opera Theater to Stream Chicago Premiere of Daniel Catán’s La hija de Rappaccini April 2021 Production at Field Museum Marks 10-Year Anniversary of Composer’s Death As COVID-19 restrictions continue, Chicago Opera Theater is changing the digital production slated for April 24 from the previously announced Il Postino to  La hija de Rappaccini, composed by  Daniel Catán…

  • Music: WHAT’S STREAMING: CLASSICAL (MARCH 3-27)

    By Connor McCormick | March 2, 2021
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    WHAT’S STREAMING: CLASSICAL March 3-27, 2012 Wednesday, March 3 at 6:00 p.m. ET Pianist Jonathan Biss joins  violinist Mark Steinberg & cellist Marcy Rosen  to play Schubert in recital live-streamed  by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society Three months after performing together in a special Beethoven 250 program, pianist Jonathan Biss, violinist Mark Steinberg, and cellist Marcy Rosen reunite…

  • Music: SYMPHONY THURSDAYS AT 7 (Pacific Symphony)

    By Connor McCormick | February 22, 2021
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    PACIFIC SYMPHONY RETURNS TO THE STAGE Join Pacific Symphony online for the inaugural performances from the stage of the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall! Symphony Thursdays @7pm will be streamed on Pacific Symphony’s  YouTube  channel,  Facebook page and on their website.  Individual events will remain available for online viewing for 30 days. Livestream FAQs to enhance your virtual…

  • Music Album: MAHLER’S TENTH SYMPHONY (Minnesota Orchestra)

    By Connor McCormick | January 29, 2021
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    MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA RELEASES RECORDING OF MAHLER’S TENTH SYMPHONY BIS Records and the Minnesota Orchestra release seventh disc in Mahler symphonies  recording project Minnesota Orchestra’s newest album in the ongoing Gustav Mahler symphonies recording series is Mahler’s Tenth Symphony, recorded at Orchestra Hall in June 2019 by Swedish label BIS Records. The album will be released worldwide…

  • Music: SFSYMPHONY+ (San Francisco Symphony)

    By Connor McCormick | January 20, 2021
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    A NEW WAY TO EXPERIENCE YOUR SYMPHONY Upping the virtual music concert spectrum, The San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen are presenting a new on-demand streaming service, SFSymphony+ (SFSymphony Plus). This membership-based service is now on sale at the cost of one ticket to a live concert! Priced at $120 for the entire…

  • Music Preview: DARKNESS SOUNDING (Wild Up’s Winter Festival; Your House, Their Houses, & Locations Around L.A. & Joshua Tree)

    By Connor McCormick | January 11, 2021
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    HELLO, DARKNESS SOUNDING, MY OLD FRIEND The 2021 installment of Wild Up‘s winter festival,  Darkness Sounding  (January 15 – February 14, 2021), demonstrates the creative ingenuity for which the L.A.-based new music collective is known. Each winter  Wild Up embarks on a new venture, a series set against the darkest days of the year. Last year’s Darkness Sounding  pointed…

  • Film Review: OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE (directed by Ric Burns; now available on Kino Now)

    By Connor McCormick | December 22, 2020
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    THE DOCTOR IS IN I suppose it doesn’t sound quite stimulating for a documentary. The subject is a scientific historian and neurologist who made a career of observing people and nature writing about them. He became quite famous later in life, especially when he published, in 1985, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a…

  • MUSIC PREVIEW: CMS: FRONT ROW (Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and The Soraya)

    By Connor McCormick | November 30, 2020
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    FROM NEW YORK TO L.A. TO THE WORLD The Chamber  Music  Society  of  Lincoln  Center (CMS) created a new digital initiative this year so that local chamber  music venues could bring its digital  chamber  music  concerts,  CMS: FRONT ROW, to audiences around the country. Yes, it was created in the age of COVID, but now local presenters can stay in touch with their audiences while…

  • Album Review: REAL ME (Brit Taylor)

    By Connor McCormick | November 23, 2020
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    IT DOESN’T GET MORE REAL THAN THIS It’s not often that an album comes out that is instantly likeable. And Brit Taylor’s just-released debut album, Real Me, is also drenched in honesty, soulfulness and non-saccharine sweetness. And she goes deeper than just country; her ten songs are flavored with blues and rock. And she writes…

  • Music: APPALACHIAN SPRING (Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra)

    By Connor McCormick | November 23, 2020
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    SPRING INTO LACO Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra continues its digital season with Aaron Copeland’s masterwork Appalachian Spring. The chamber version, originally commissioned by choreographer Martha Graham as a ballet, provides a superb showcase for LACO’s artistry. Conducted by Music Director Jaime Martí­n with LACO Conductor Laureate Jeffrey Kahane on piano in their first joint appearance,…

  • Album Review: DAVID KOREVAAR: (Luigi Perrachio’s Nine Little Poems and 25 Preludi)

    By Connor McCormick | November 21, 2020
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    CAPRICIOUS CHROMATICS FROM KOREVAAR CATAPULT TO CLOUD NINE What a find this new album is — and the composer had better be a household name after this. The prolific David Korevaar’s world premiere recording of piano music by Italian impressionist composer Luigi Perrachio (1883-1966) is now available. The two works on the album, recorded for…

  • Album Review: SOUL OF THE SPANISH GUITAR (Pablo Sáinz-Villegas)

    By Connor McCormick | November 19, 2020
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    THE SOUL OF A NATION So, at first I thought “another Andrés Segovia for Brunch-like album”? Not that that’s a bad thing, but Pablo Sáinz-Villegas truly surprised me. He makes his guitar sing like an orchestra. Even the plucks go from a tinkle to a pounding. When supreme virtuosity is coupled with lightness of touch,…

  • Album Review: DRUNK TANK PINK (shame)

    By Connor McCormick | November 18, 2020
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    PUNK FOR ALL For those who know the band shame, then you know the UK members spent their entire adult life touring as riotous post-punkers (they’re first album 2018’s Songs Of Praise is a hoot). But what of those who like their punk adventurous, but without the feeling that an overripe drunk is distorting the…

  • Film Review: RUNNER RUNNER (directed by Brad Furman)

    By Connor McCormick | June 1, 2020
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    If you love watching gambling movies, this post is for you. Runner Runner is an online gambling movie by Brad Furman and was initially released on 18 September 2013. The film starred Justin Timberlake as Richie, Ben Affleck as Ivan, Gemma Arterton as Rebecca, and Anthony Mackie as Agent Shaver in significant roles, although the…

  • CAN WE USE MUSIC TO INCREASE OUR STUDYING ABILITY?

    By Connor McCormick | February 4, 2020
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    CAN MUSIC INCREASE OUR STUDYING ABILITY? Can music affect our ability to perceive and remember information? How does music affect our brain and psycho-emotional state? Well, we can divide all musical works into activating, tonic, and relaxing, soothing. The perception of music is closely connected with mental processes; it requires attention, observation, quick wit. Music,…

  • TV Review: BETTER CALL SAUL

    By Connor McCormick | November 6, 2019
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    BETTER CALL SAUL — POSSIBLY THE BEST SPINOFF EVER Breaking Bad is one of the most iconic TV shows recently. It is hard to find someone, especially a millennial who didn’t watch it and didn’t enjoy the adventures of Walter White and his companion Jesse Pinkman. Breaking Bad dominated a decade and set an example…

  • Film: FINDING NEVERLAND: A MILESTONE IN HISTORICAL FANTASY

    By Connor McCormick | February 12, 2019
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    Following up his critically acclaimed Monster’s Ball, director Marc Forster took on this biography of playwright James Matthew Barrie, the scribe who penned the children’s classic Peter Pan. Johnny Depp stars as the turn-of-the-century writer as the film follows Barrie as he struggles to write and have his play produced. J.M. Barrie’s Finding Neverland also…

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