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Music review: Herbert Blomstedt leads Beethoven's Missa Solemnis
Culture MonsterMark Swed reviews the first Los Angeles Philharmonic performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in 32 years. The wise and commanding performance was led by the 85-year-old conductor Herbert Blomstedt.... -
Injured conductor Kurt Masur withdraws from concerts through June
Kurt Masur, the renowned German conductor, is withdrawing from concerts through the end of June after falling off the podium last week during a concert in Paris and injuring himself. His official website states that a scan of the conductor's left shoulder...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Concerts, Culture, Music, France
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Music review: Kurt Masur and Sarah Chang with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Concert Hall
Culture MonsterRichard S. Ginell reviews Kurt Masur, Sarah Chang and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall... -
Classical music still effective at dispersing loitering teens
Culture MonsterDoes playing classical music keep teens away? Actually, yes.... -
L.A. in the grips of Gustavo-mania
The Daily MirrorGustavo Dudamel throws himself into his conducting during his inaugural performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall as new music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times / October 8, 2009) Through the generosity and... -
Why History Must Be Saved, Even When Nobody Wants It
The Daily MirrorThe death of Ernest Fleischmann, former executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, offers a nice point of departure for a few musings about how casually we treat the past. About a year ago, I noticed a trash cart full of files next to a freight... -
Alan Gilbert readies for New York Philharmonic debut
![Life, even for rising orchestra conductors, can be unfair. Consider one response to Alan Gilbert, new music director of the New York Philharmonic, after he leads Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony in a packed college auditorium in Queens to loud applause. In the intermission crowd, Linda Bergelson looks up and says: "We live half the year in San Diego, and Alan Gilbert just doesn't have that Dudamel spark."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-08/48884750-27152851.jpg "Life, even for rising orchestra conductors, can be unfair. Consider one response to Alan Gilbert, new music director of the New York Philharmonic, after he leads Mozart's "Jupiter\" Symphony in a packed college auditorium in Queens to loud applause. In the intermission crowd, Linda Bergelson looks up and says: \"We live half the year in San Diego, and Alan Gilbert just doesn't have that Dudamel spark.\"")
Life, even for rising orchestra conductors, can be unfair. Consider one response to Alan Gilbert, new music director of the New York Philharmonic, after he leads Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony in a packed college auditorium in Queens to loud applause. In the...Tags: Upper West Side, John Adams, Family, New York, Gustav Mahler
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Music review: Riccardo Chailly and the world's oldest orchestra at Disney Hall
Culture MonsterThe sunny Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly has a knack for landing where you’d least expect him and making a go of it. He is music director of what used to seem the eternally starchy Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. They began a...... -
Beijing simmering over 'the Egg'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's the building Beijing residents love to hate. The dome of the new National Center for the Performing Arts glows luminescent as it emerges from a reflecting pool like a pearl or a rising sun. At least that's the impression the French architects of...Tags: Seiji Ozawa, Health and Safety at School, Cultural Development, Communist Party of China, Rem Koolhaas
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Performing Rauschenberg
Times Staff WriterOn Dec. 7, 1992, the New York Philharmonic celebrated its 150th anniversary by unveiling a poster it had commissioned from Robert Rauschenberg. An attractive, if slightly innocuous, silk-screen collage, it is instantly recognizable as a Rauschenberg. In...Tags: Glenn Gould, Arts and Culture, Culture, Los Angeles, North Carolina
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In July, It's Ta-Ta, Ozawa
This summer will mark Seiji Ozawa's last appearance at Tanglewood as the Boston Symphony Orchestra's music director. He takes the baton at the Vienna State Opera later in the year. Tanglewood audiences will celebrate Ozawa's 29 years as the BSO's...Tags: Seiji Ozawa, Concerts, Arts and Culture, John F. Williams, Theater
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Classical Music Event Listing
ASTON MAGNA FESTIVAL July 6 - Works of Mozart and Haydn. Nancy Armstrong, soprano; Peter Sykes, keyboard. July 13 - Works of J.S. Bach and Vivaldi. Sharon Baker, soprano, and Stephen Hammer, soloist, joined by instrumental ensemble led by violinist...Tags: Concerts, John F. Williams, Connecticut Opera, Harkness Memorial State Park, Father's Day
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