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    May 2, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Deanna Durbin dies at 91; wholesome star of Depression-era films

    Deanna Durbin, the singing starlet with the bubbly personality and the jewel-tone voice whose enormously popular movies were widely credited with saving Universal Pictures from bankruptcy during the Depression, has died. She was 91.
    Deanna Durbin, the singing starlet with the bubbly personality and the jewel-tone voice whose enormously popular movies were widely credited with saving Universal Pictures from bankruptcy during the Depression, has died. She was 91. Her popularity...

    Tags: A.C. Lyles, Music Theater, Movies, Anne Frank, Henry Koster

    2. Jan 11, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Review: L.A. Phil vibrantly explores 'The Planets' at Disney Hall

    <span>One must remember that it was the stereo LP that finally catapulted Holst&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Planets&rdquo; into international orbit in the 1950s and '60s because recordings could accommodate its crunching cataclysms and quiet, cool mysticism with equal ease and difficult balance problems could be solved with the turn of a dial. The Los Angeles Philharmonic participated in two recordings that helped sell the piece -- one a highly idiosyncratic version with Leopold Stokowski, and the other a famous Zubin Mehta sonic spectacular whose jackets bore the sticker &ldquo;The Ultimate Trip.&rdquo;</span>
    One must remember that it was the stereo LP that finally catapulted Holst’s “The Planets” into international orbit in the 1950s and '60s because recordings could accommodate its crunching cataclysms and quiet, cool mysticism with equal...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, Les Miserables (musical)

    3. Nov 6, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Elliott Carter dies at 103; inventive American composer

    Elliott Carter, the great American composer who was born in the horse-and-buggy era but whose music persistently looked ahead by reflecting and unabashedly celebrating the intricacies of modern life, died Monday of natural causes at his home in New York, according to his close friend and assistant, clarinetist Virgil Blackwell. He was 103.
    Elliott Carter, the great American composer who was born in the horse-and-buggy era but whose music persistently looked ahead by reflecting and unabashedly celebrating the intricacies of modern life, died Monday of natural causes at his home in New York,...

    Tags: Leonard Bernstein, World War II (1939-1945), Literature, John Ashbery, Music Industry

    4. Aug 2, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Mitch Miller dies at 99; musical innovator and host of 'Sing Along With Mitch'

    Mitch Miller, who helped shape musical tastes in the 1950s and early '60s as the head of the popular music division at Columbia Records and hosted the hit &quot;Sing Along With Mitch" TV show in the early '60s while becoming one of the era's most commercially successful recording artists, has died. He was 99.
    Mitch Miller, who helped shape musical tastes in the 1950s and early '60s as the head of the popular music division at Columbia Records and hosted the hit "Sing Along With Mitch" TV show in the early '60s while becoming one of the era's most...

    Tags: Rock and Roll (genre), Buddy Holly, Charlie Parker, Jo Stafford, Mahalia Jackson

    5. Nov 14, 2012 |Story| AP Illinois

  5. Riccardo Muti: Culture is good for economy

    ROME &mdash; Riccardo Muti, the master conductor, is sounding an ominous note, and it isn't rising from the orchestra pit.
    Associated Press
    ROME — Riccardo Muti, the master conductor, is sounding an ominous note, and it isn't rising from the orchestra pit. The former longtime maestro at Milan's La Scala opera house is worried that the stubborn financial crisis in much of the world...

    Tags: Berlin (Germany), Budgets and Budgeting, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Arts, Labor Disputes

    6. Oct 24, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. Viewing Bach through lens of history, culture

    Halfway through reading Paul Elie's &quot;Reinventing Bach," I suddenly got dizzy. An earthquake? All-purpose angst? Or could it be that composer Johann Sebastian Bach was working as an agent of transcendence on me, as he did on this sincere author?
    Tribune Newspapers Critic
    Halfway through reading Paul Elie's "Reinventing Bach," I suddenly got dizzy. An earthquake? All-purpose angst? Or could it be that composer Johann Sebastian Bach was working as an agent of transcendence on me, as he did on this sincere author? The basic...

    Tags: Johann Sebastian Bach, Glenn Gould, Leonard Bernstein, Entertainment, Culture

    7. Sep 30, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Review: 'Reinventing Bach' by Paul Elie casts a wide net

    <strong>Reinventing Bach</strong>
    -------------------- Reinventing Bach Paul Elie Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 498 pp., $30.00 -------------------- Halfway through reading Paul Elie's "Reinventing Bach," I suddenly got dizzy. An earthquake? All-purpose angst? Or could it be that Bach...

    Tags: Yo-Yo Ma, Movies, Leonard Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Arts and Culture

    8. Apr 25, 2012 | Chicago Tribune

  8. Evanston Symphony: Dufour Plays Mozart

    TribLocal - Evanston
    Flutist Mathieu DufourHighlights Evanston Symphony Orchestra’sFinal Concert of the Season Evanston, IL — Mathieu Dufour, principal flutist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, is featured soloist …...
    9. Jan 5, 2011 |Story| LA Canada

  9. Thoughts from Dr. Joe: In the band room at LCHS

    At first glance, I saw a sea of confusion, an orchestrated commotion of kids laughing, singing, screaming, playing the piano and banging on bells and drums. Music was definitely in the air in the band room of La Ca&ntilde;ada High.
    At first glance, I saw a sea of confusion, an orchestrated commotion of kids laughing, singing, screaming, playing the piano and banging on bells and drums. Music was definitely in the air in the band room of La Caņada High. After a second glance, I...

    Tags: Human Interest, Music Industry

    10. Oct 19, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Norman Corwin dies at 101; radio's 'poet laureate'

    Norman Corwin, the legendary writer, director and producer of <a href=&quot;http://www.normancorwin.com/Classic.html">original radio plays for CBS</a> during the golden age of radio in the 1930s and '40s when he was revered as the "poet of the airwaves," has died. He was 101.
    Norman Corwin, the legendary writer, director and producer of original radio plays for CBS during the golden age of radio in the 1930s and '40s when he was revered as the "poet of the airwaves," has died. He was 101. Corwin, a journalist, playwright,...

    Tags: Documentary (genre), University of Southern California, Literature, Walter Huston, White House

    11. Nov 23, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  11. Vintage Hollywood Bowl photos hitting the auction block

    Culture Monster
    Nostalgia for Old Hollywood is a robust business. Most of it tends to center around the moviemaking industry but for native Angelenos, the emotions run deeper than that, touching on all aspects of the city's cultural and social landscape in......
    12. Apr 1, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  12. From the Vaults: 'Fantasia'

    The Daily Mirror
    For the last few days, the DVD player has been glowering at me. Over two nights, I worked my way through most of “Fantasia” and whenever I went near, it would scold me as if to say “Don’t forget, you......
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