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Los Angeles Concert Feature: ALAN CUMMING SINGS SAPPY SONGS (Disney Hall)
CUMMING AND SAPPY Yes, Disney Hall is a large venue for a cabaret act, but you can expect Tony Award-winning actor Alan Cumming to turn the venue into the most intimate hotspot when he presents Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs this Sunday, January 29 at 7:30. In addition, you can expect much more than the…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: LANG LANG (Solo Recital at Disney Hall)
LANG LANG RETURNS TO DISNEY HALL The first time I saw Chinese pianist Lang Lang perform live was at Disney Hall, and I must admit I was somewhat taken aback. For years, I had heard about LL the showman, that his ostentatious style of performing–facial mugging, speeding up passages to show off his technique–was more important…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: DUDAMEL & BATIASHVILI (Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto & Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet with the LA Phil)
REAWAKENING A FAMILIAR CONCERTO It’s astounding to have heard countless performances of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto–both live and in recordings–and still be amazed that a newer interpretation can be so exciting, inventive, and breathtaking. Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili recently took me aback with her release on Deutsche Grammophon with the Staatskapelle Berlin (Berlin State Opera Orchestra) led by Daniel…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: STORM LARGE SINGS THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS (Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra)
TWO STORMS HIT L.A. THIS WEEKEND You think the winter storms slamming So Cal are something? Well, singer, songwriter, raconteur, author, actor, playwright, and powerhouse performer Storm Large is joining Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for a rare performance of The Seven Deadly Sins–and they’re coming to the L.A. area for two shows this weekend only,…
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Chicago Music Review: 2017 MARTIN LUTHER KING TRIBUTE CONCERT (Chicago Sinfonietta)
A CONSECRATION AND A CONCERT FIT FOR A KING Chicago Sinfonietta’s annual concert to commemorate Martin Luther King’”now in its fourth decade’”held more relevance and righteousness than usual, occurring as it is during 2017’s Inauguration Week. As music director Mei-Ann Chen says, “It takes a village to raise an orchestra.” It also takes an orchestra…
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Los Angeles Music Review: TOVEY & CHEN PERFORM TCHAIKOVSKY & SIBELIUS (LA Phil at Disney Hall)
‘TWAS BRILLIG, AND THE SLITHY TOVEY The witty, charming raconteur and conductor Bramwell Tovey has never failed to have the audience in the palm of his baton-filled hand. As energetic and high-spirited as ever, Tovey, the former Los Angeles Philharmonic principal guest conductor at the Hollywood Bowl, led us on a journey as disparate as the three…
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Los Angeles Theater/Music Preview: NOTES OF A NATIVE SONG (Stew & The Negro Problem at REDCAT)
TAKING NOTES TO THE NEXT LEVEL Los Angeles native Stew, born Mark Stewart, is one of today’s most fascinating songwriters. He has released both solo albums and with his band, The Negro Problem. He became well known to the theater world in 2008, when he made the transition from the pop-rock scene to Broadway. The…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: HADELICH and URBAŠƒSKI (Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall)
BEYOND COMPARE In the past five years, I have encountered only a handful of fresh-to-the-scene classical soloists who completely enraptured’”those who combine the old-school magnetic quality of superlative technique with energetic experimentation, soul, and discovery. Among the electrifying performers that have made me literally lean forward in my seat are cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianists…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: SONIC MASTERWORKS (Los Angeles Master Chorale at Disney Hall)
A SONIC BOOM Eric Whitacre writes ridiculously sublime music, and I’m always happy to hear a 110-member chorale perform his work with pitch-perfect perfection. Thankfully, his work seems to be performed more often, perhaps due to the fact that he is a phenom with his social media compositions. This is one of the reasons Whitacre left…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: DUDAMEL CONDUCTS BARTÒK (LA Phil at Disney Hall)
CARRIE ME HOME Hungarian composer Béla Viktor János Bartók was an avid collector and analyst of folk music, especially of Hungarian, Romanian and Slovak tradition. He even recorded some village music with the first phonographs available. An inspiration for his compositional style, folk music was his love until the end: While his final work has characteristics…
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Los Angeles Music Review: 2016 PIATIGORSKY INTERNATIONAL CELLO FESTIVAL (University of Southern California, Los Angeles Philharmonic)
A CAVALRY OF CELLISTS I have covered rock, classical, and musical festivals, so it’s surprising that one of the most satisfying, exciting, and inspirational events I have ever experienced just closed up shop last Sunday after ten days of celebrating the cello. Exhaustive but never enervating, this meticulously planned day-and-night gathering included workshops, master classes, and…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: TEARS OF JOY, TEARS OF SORROW (Le Salon de Musiques at the Chandler)
YOUR TRANSCENDENCE AWAITS The grand opening concert of Le Salon de Musique’s 2015/2016 arrives on Sunday, October 4, 2015, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Every time I visit, Le Salon proves itself to be the greatest chamber music outfit I have ever discovered. You get world-class players in an intimate setting offering masterful works (often…
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Music & Film Preview: THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC & VOICES OF LIGHT (Los Angeles Master Chorale at Disney Hall)
THE VOICES OF LIGHT AND PASSION OF LAMC Considered to be one of the greatest films of all time, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, a 1928 silent French film based on the actual record of the trial of Joan of Arc, opened to rave reviews, but the actual footage was plagued for…
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Music Review: A MIGHTY VOICE (Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles at Los Angeles Theatre Center)
SOME MIGHTY IMPRESSIVE VOICES The Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles (GMCLA) are presenting A Mighty Voice, and there is only one performance left to attend. A dazzlingly well-written review should be inserted here, and hopefully will for posterity. But because of time constraints, and since there’s only one performance left, we have to make…
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