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Album Review: GET YOURSELF SOME HAPPY! (Lillias White)
Awesome Broadway fave Lillias White releases her first Solo Studio Album: Get Yourself Some Happy! Here she is, boys! The great Lillias White is releasing her first solo studio album, Get Yourself Some Happy!, out July 23, 2021. I caught Ms. White in a cabaret just before the pandemic shutdown, and that evening stays with…
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Opera Review: DON PROCOPIO (Pacific Opera Project in L.A.)
SILLY PROCOPIO LEFT ME IN OSTRITCHES Well, last Sunday night, courtesy of Pacific Opera Project’s presentation of Don Procopio, I had my first foray to a live production since the pandemic put a pause on live performances (and as long as I’m alliterating, we packed a pleasant picnic perfect for piggery). While I had attended…
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Music | Dance | Theater: CAL PERFORMANCES (2021-22 Season)
SUPERCALILINEUP Talk about coming back with a bang! Berkeley’s Cal Performances has announced its 2021–22 season, and the Bay Area is getting the best line-up I have seen since well before the pandemic shut everything down. The world’s greatest artists in jazz, classical, opera, pop, dance, theater, and more are heading to Berkeley, leaving you…
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Film: THE BEST BIOPICS EVER MADE ABOUT MUSICIANS AND BANDS
There have been many movies based around real and fictional musicians and bands. Movies such as Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Featuring country and bluegrass musicians on the run. Other fictional movies that have found success include The Commitments, Purple Rain, Almost Famous, and Walk Hard. Musicians such as Johnny Cash have provided rich source…
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Album Review (Jazz): AFRIKA LOVE (Alchemy Sound Project)
A JUICY JOURNEY IN JAZZ How awesome is this?! To me, this is what fusion really means: Afrika Love, the sonically adventurous third album by Alchemy Sound Project — which formed in 2014 — takes many different styles of music and melds them together in a jazzy, grooving, funkalicious delight. I get Carl Stalling (composer…
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Virtual Opera: CIRCUS DAYS AND NIGHTS (World Premiere by Philip Glass, David Henry Hwang & Tilde Björfors; Streaming LIVE)
COME JOIN THE CIRCUS AS A METAPHOR FOR LIFE It’s here! The world premiere of a new opera by Philip Glass which will take place on Malmö Opera‘s main stage with live music to a live audience and livestreamed worldwide May 29 thru June 13, 2021. Librettists David Henry Hwang and circus director Tilde Björfors…
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Album Preview: HARD UP (The Bamboos)
FUNK ME HARD (UP) After more than twenty years performing together, The Bamboos have refined their craft of finding the sweetest spot between soul and funk to its finest point yet. On their tenth studio album, Hard Up, the nine piece band–founded and led by guitarist, producer and songwriter Lance Ferguson and featuring the vocals of the…
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Music Study: THE VIOLYMPICS (Nathan Cole)
THE VIOLYMPICS, A VIRTUAL 12-WEEK PROGRAM FOR VIOLINISTS AND VIOLISTS AT ANY LEVEL, HAS AS GUEST ARTISTS THE GREATEST VIOLINISTS IN THE WORLD Nathan Cole, our very own First Associate Concertmaster for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, will launch the second installment of The Violympics on June 14, 2021. A series of 6 two-week training events,…
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Opera: LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO’S 2021|22 SEASON
Tickets now on sale for Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2021|22 Season Call 312-827-5600 or visit lyricopera.org Here are the shows: NEW PRODUCTION Verdi MACBETH Sung in Italian with projected English texts September 17, 23m, 30, October 3m, 6m, 9, 2021 Lyric’s riveting season-opener is the inaugural production of Music Director Enrique Mazzola’s tenure, and a brand-new…
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Virtual Opera: DESERT IN (Boston Lyric Opera)
AN OPERATIC OASIS WHERE ANYTHING IS DONE TO KEEP LOVE SAFE Lost souls are found, love is rekindled, and secrets are exposed at a mysterious motor lodge in the American West. There’s an extraordinarily impressive team behind Boston Lyric Opera’s new operatic miniseries desert in, which premieres June 3, 2021 on operabox.tv streaming service. Anthony Michael Lopez…
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Jazz Album Pick of the Week: MENDÒ (Alex Cuba)
WELL, FUNK ME HARD Just one listen, and this Latin-flavored funk jazz party had me hooked. “Again, again!” my party-depleted inner child screamed. “Mendó,” as performer, arranger, producer, composer, instrumentalist, Cuban Canadian Alex Cuba writes, “is the substance of the soul.” And this produced-during-pandemic soulfest proves that. Afro-Cuban, Flamenco, pile-driving big band — it’s a…
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Opera: DON PROCOPIO (Pacific Opera Project, Los Angeles)
Pacific Opera Project (POP) announces its next installment of revolutionary, pandemic-safe productions, the west coast premiere of Georges Bizet’s rarely performed comedic opera Don Procopio, performed live outdoors at the Heritage Square Museum in Los Angeles. The three, socially-distanced performances – Friday, June 4, 2021 at 8:00pm; Saturday, June 5, 2021 at 8:00pm; and Sunday, June 6, 2021 at 8:00pm – will be sung…
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Virtual Music: BEYOND THE ARIA FINALE WITH JOYCE DIDONATO (Harris Theater, Chicago)
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Music: SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY (Live Concerts, Davies Hall)
The San Francisco Symphony will be increasing audience capacities for live concerts at Davies Symphony Hall in May and June, 2021, following the City’s approval of the Symphony’s Health & Safety Plan. Audience capacities for performances on May 13–June 25 will be increased to 35% of Davies Symphony Hall’s total capacity. There will be two…
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Album Review: FLOR (Gretchen Parlato)
I KNOW SHE’S WONDERFUL OK, she’s a fellow native Los Angelino. Her grandfather played trumpet in the Kay Kyser band. She is breezy and fresh sounding like a Portuguese chanteuse in Rio, and evokes an earthy woodwind in an African-esque chant. And if that’s not magic enough, she got the one and only Gerald Clayton…
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Events: THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL (Reopening Announcement)
The Hollywood Bowl is roaring back to life this summer, but first LA Phil hosts five free concerts for healthcare workers, first responders and essential workers in appreciation for all they have done for Los Angeles throughout the pandemic. There will be two performances by Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil (May 15 & 22)…
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Opera: THE ELIXIR OF LOVE / AS ONE (Opera Maine)
Opera Maine is preseting live opera again this summer at Merrill Auditorium, with two performances July 28 and 30, 2021. Under the direction of Artistic Director Dona D. Vaughn, the company will stage an original production of Gaetano Donizetti’s endearing comic opera, L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love). Because of covid safety considerations, the opera…
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Music Concerts: JUDY COLLINS & MARIZA (The Town Hall)
The Town Hall is pleased to announce two ENCORE streaming concert events: The great Judy Collins in a concert recreating her legendary 1964 concert at The Town Hall on April 16 and Mariza in a concert celebrating the release of her album Mariza sings Amália on April 9 (the album has ten Amália standards reinvented for…
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Music: GROUP THERAPY TOUR CONCERT COMES HOME (Hootie and the Blowfish)
WE ALL NEED GROUP THERAPY AFTER LAST YEAR Prepare for a new livestream performance by one of America’s most beloved bands, Grammy-winning Hootie & the Blowfish. The virtual performance will be an online presentation of the tour-closing performance from their hugely successful 2019 Group Therapy Tour, broadcast exclusively via Sessions Live on Friday, April 23 at…
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Music: ASTOR PIAZZOLLA AT 100; CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S SMILE (Violinist Philippe Quint)
Philippe Quint returns to the stage in April to present two of his signature curated multimedia shows in California, streamed online. On Tuesday April 6, 2021 at 7pm PT, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County presents the world premiere of violinist ’s newest multimedia show, Astor Piazzolla at 100: A Musical Portrait with pianist Jun Cho. Quint’s narration leads…
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