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Music review: Gustavo Dudamel and Emanuel Ax play the classics at Disney Hall
Culture MonsterDespite the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s reputation for breaking the mold of the old-fashioned orchestra, and despite Gustavo Dudamel’s image as a conductor tuned in to the changeable 21st century, conventional concerts of classics remain a (if no... -
Critic's Notebook: Mehta, Guilini, Previn and Salonen are still with us, via disc and page
Culture MonsterRemember last season when a certain French flutist from the Chicago Symphony who, flirting with a position in the Los Angeles Philharmonic before decamping back to his old band, derided our lack of tradition in the playing? Well the Gustavo...... -
Music review: Dudamel takes on the 'Turangalila' at Disney Concert Hall
Culture MonsterAn 18-wheeler of a symphony on a joy ride, the “Turangalila” –- with French plates, Sanskrit graphics, the eerie whine of a UFO, horsepower and torque you wouldn’t believe, a voluptuous sleeper in the cabin for euphoric sex -- barreled...... -
Music review: Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall
Culture MonsterOn another blindingly bright morning Friday, the Walt Disney Concert Hall steel shimmered like an oasis in the hot, unshielded desert. The inside, though, was cooled by “riverrun.” Toru Takemitsu’s 15-minute score for piano and orchestra – the... -
Music review: Susanna Malkki makes her L.A. Philharmonic debut
Culture MonsterThe much talked-about music director of the high-Modern, Boulez-blessed ensemble intercontemporain in Paris, Susanna Mälkki finally made her Los Angeles Philharmonic debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall. She began Saturday afternoon with … Beyoncé. In... -
Composer Magnus Lindberg on his friendship with Salonen: 'The kind of collaboration you need"
Culture MonsterWhen Esa-Pekka Salonen returns to the Walt Disney Concert Hall this weekend, after a full season’s absence, he will arrive as an old friend in a new guise, making his debut as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s first conductor laureate. He...... -
Esa-Pekka Salonen returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall
Culture MonsterEsa-Pekka Salonen received a whistling, whooping, foot-stamping ovation when he walked onstage at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Friday night. So what else is new? His hair is now short, but little else has changed since his last appearance with...... -
Music review: Bryn Terfel at Walt Disney Concert Hall
Culture MonsterNow and then, Los Angeles gets to experience the towering, endlessly pliable bass-baritone of Bryn Terfel on an operatic stage, most memorably in the title role of Verdi’s “Falstaff” at L.A. Opera in 2005. For his Walt Disney Concert Hall...... -
Music review: Esa-Pekka Salonen and Bryn Terfel perform Wagner at Disney Hall
Culture MonsterIn 1999, Esa-Pekka Salonen made a potentially blockbuster recording of Paul Hindemith’s “Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber” in Royce Hall, as part of an important Los Angeles Philharmonic all-Hindemith CD. But the titles on... -
Culture Watch: Lisa Batiashvili plays Shostakovich with Esa-Pekka Salonen
Culture MonsterCD review of the striking young Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili performing Shostakovich with Esa-Pekka Salonen... -
Music review: Pacific Symphony performs Bruckner's Ninth at Segerstrom Concert Hall
Culture MonsterCarl St.Clair and the Pacific Symphony find context for Bruckner's Ninth Symphony with help of Nobertine Fathers and organist Paul Jacobs.... -
New Esa-Pekka Salonen piece withdrawn from Disney Hall concert
Culture MonsterEsa-Pekka Salonen's new piano composition pulled from concerts in L.A. and New York...
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