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Jazz Concert Recommendation: SAMARA JOY (Samueli Hall at Segerstrom Center in Costa Mesa)
A JOY TO BEHOLD COMES TO SEGERSTROM ONE NGHT ONLY, SATURDAY OCTOBER 1 AT 7 & 9 The jazz world has been abuzz about the 22-year-old New Yorker Samara Joy since she won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in 2019, and rightfully so. Having just released her eponymous debut album, the word is…
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Music Review: CAMERATA PACIFICA (September 2022)
THE MUSIC WHICH REMINDS US THAT IN DESPAIR THERE IS GREAT HOPE Remaining the best salon ensemble in Los Angeles, Camerata Pacifica offers seven programs a year, each curated by Artistic Director Adrian Spence. It is to his credit that each program is chockablock with crackerjack selections from the classical canon, both new and old….
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CD Recommmendation: DAWN (Ola Gjeilo on Decca Classics)
GREET THE DAWN Dawn is the follow-up to Ola Gjeilo’s hugely successful 2020 album Night. This new solo piano wonder is now out on Decca Classics. Improvisation has long been at the core of Gjeilo’s composition and performance. Without being cloying, 17 cathartic tracks are guaranteed to soothe your troubles away. It’s great for working, meditating,…
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Music: ALAN & MARILYN BERGMAN LYRIC AWARD (ASCAP Foundation)
Alan Bergman and his late wife, Marilyn, wrote lyrics for film, stage and television for more than five decades, which earned them multiple Emmys, Grammys and three Oscars for “The Windmills of Your Mind,” “The Way We Were” and the score for Yentl. The ASCAP Foundation Alan and Marilyn Bergman Lyric Award is a new…
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Chicago Opera Review: ERNANI (Lyric Opera of Chicago)
ERR: NAH, NI? MAYBE Ernani is billed as the second installment in Lyric Opera’s early Verdi series, which began with Luisa Miller in 2019-20. This, despite a production of Nabucco in 2016, which is earlier than both Ernani and Luisa Miller. No matter. Ernani contains some very beautiful music that deserves to be better known…
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Album Review and Recommendation: ARIAS (Jonathan Tetelman)
A TENOR FOR THE AGES When I played the debut album Arias by Chilean-American tenor Jonathan Tetelman, my partner said during the first track, “Is that Pavarotti?” Comparisons can fairly be made when you hear this powerful, colorful, emotional artist taking on an incredible range of styles from the French and Italian repertoire. Having signed an…
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Album Recommendation: CARIBBEAN NOCTURNES (Joachim Horsley)
It’s a thrilling album that hooked me at the first listen. Breaking new ground yet again, pianist Joachim Horsley takes classical favorites as a base, and infuses them with infectious Afro-Caribbean beats, such as Rumba and Zouk. His newest album, out September 2, 2022, is Caribbean Nocturnes, and I had the luck to attend his…
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Concert Recommendation & Interview: A SALUTE TO SONDHEIM (GMCLA, Music Director & Conductor Ernest H. Harrison)
A SALUTE TO STORYTELLERS Stage and Cinema is grateful to GMCLA Music Director & Conductor Ernest H. Harrison for taking time out of rehearsing to chat a bit about A Salute to Sondheim, an awesome new concert from the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles. The season finale concert — which plays this Saturday and Sunday,…
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Music Reviews: PINK MARTINI / BERNADETTE PETERS (San Francisco Symphony)
SUMMER AT THE SYMPHONY 2 In their 25+ years as a fourteen member full “little orchestra,” Pink Martini has established a reputation for clever, daring, sophisticated and delightful music. The San Francisco Symphony provided an excellent opportunity for Pink Martini to perk up a news-weary public with some much needed color and sunshine. Did they…
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Music Recommendation: 32nd SAN JOSE JAZZ SUMMER FEST
An Electrifying Artist Lineup For One of the Summer’s Major SF Bay Area Music Festivals Friday, August 12 – Sunday, August 14, 2022 Plaza de César Chavez Park, Downtown San Jose, Calif. Tickets On Sale Now (Tickets: $30 – $170/Day; $75 – $495/3-Day Passes; $10/Children 5-12) Silicon Valley’s premier annual music event,  San Jose Jazz Summer…
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Music Recommendation: SUMMER OF BEETHOVEN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL (Doheny Mansion, July 14-17, 2022)
SUMMER OF LOVE Once while in Salzburg, I happened upon a chamber concert in a private home. Our host explained that compositions for piano, trio, sonatas, quartets, and quintets were designed for intimate spaces such as the luxuriant parlor we sat in. The sound of the music, so close to your soul, was unlike anything…
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Music Review: Ted Hearne’s PLACE (Power to the People! Festival with the LA PHIL at Disney Hall)
FINDING A PLACE AT DISNEY HALL Reviewing the contemporary theatrical oratorio Place a few years ago, Opera News Magazine suggested that Ted Hearne’s many–genred musical rumination on urban gentrification and its baleful underpinnings “seemed to arrive both at the right cultural moment and entirely too late.” As if to affirm this impression, the LA Philharmonic’s…
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Album Recommendation: JOHN WILLIAMS VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 2 (Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violin)
John Williams and Anne-Sophie MutterReunite for World Premiere Recordingof the Composer’s Violin Concerto No. 2– Written Especially for Mutter Alongside Three Film Themes in SpecialNew Arrangements by Williams Out Today, June 3, 2022 on Deutsche Grammophon “Marion’s Theme” from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost ArkMusic Video Out Today, June 4 Watch the Music Video…
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Music Review: DUDAMEL CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN’S NINTH (Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall))
LA PHIL’S PRIDE WITH “JOY” Wow, I do believe tonight’s house at Disney Hall was the most packed for a classical concert that I’ve seen since before that stupid COVID rat showed up. And it’s a sure bet that patrons were here for the massive showing of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Why, with the greatest chorus…
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Recommended Music Event: JOURNEY OUT OF DARKNESS (Numi Opera at The Broad Stage)
JOURNEY OUT OF DARKNESS Breathing new life into works by composers who suffered oppression Numi Opera Theatre is back live after the Covid shutdown and will present Journey Out of Darkness, on Sunday May 29, 2022, at 7:00pm at the Broad Stage 1310 11th Street in Santa Monica. The concert features a collection of works by…
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Opera Preview: GIUSTINO (Long Beach Opera)
A QUEST FOR JUSTICE IN HANDEL’S GIUSTINO Opera fans, take note! The ever-adventurous Long Beach Opera launches its 2022 spring and summer season with a genuine rarity: a new version of Handel’s Giustino, performed at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAAA) in Long Beach (May 21, 22, 28, 2022 at 7:30pm) in what appears…
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Music Preview: HÉLAS MON COEUR (The Verdi Chorus Spring 2022 Concert in Santa Monica)
EERIE WITCHES AND VOICES OF COURAGE For two performances only this weekend, May 14-15, 2022, The Verdi Chorus is presenting its Spring 2022 Concert at Santa Monica’s First Presbyterian Church. This thoroughly professional outfit always sounds amazing. It’s such a treat to hear up-close opera choruses, as the voices can sometimes be lost when an…
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Music Review: NAS WITH THE LA PHIL (Disney Hall)
THE WIZARD OF NAS While the Los Angeles Philharmonic and its chief conductor, Gustavo Dudamel, are no strangers to fronting pop and hip hop stars at the Hollywood Bowl, these genre-melding collaborations are not a typical programming staple in the Phil’s school-year digs on Grand Avenue in Downtown L.A. But on the first night of…
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Music Review: DUDAMEL LEADS ADÈS’S “DANTE” (Disney Hall)
DO NOT ABANDON HOPE; THIS GENERATION’S STRAVINSKY HAS ARRIVED I have great tidings, for English composer Thomas Adès has bestowed on us what is easily one of the greatest works of the twenty-first century. Under the aegis of its Gen X festival, LA Phil premiered his huge symphonic fantasia, Dante, last weekend at Disney Hall,…
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Music Preview: WILD UP (Los Angeles New Music)
WILD UP’S NEW HOME-BASED SERIES, LOS ANGELES NEW MUSIC, PLAYS MAY 15 – JULY 10, 2022 “For a decade, we’ve been exporting LA culture. Now, we’re beginning a home series here in LA.” – Christopher Rountree, Artistic Director of Wild Up Wild Up, LA’s ruling new music collective, greets the season of renewal with Los Angeles New…
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