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Grammy, Pulitzer winners, TV star among highlights of upcoming Zoellner season
Lehigh Valley MusicA Grammy Award-winning trumpeter, the world premiere of a song cycle based on poems by Carl Reiner’s daughter, dazzling international dance ensembles, circus arts and perhaps America’s premier storyteller will highlight the 16th season of... -
A Recent Silent Movie Sunday at Lyric Hall
Silent films have never seemed like a dead art to me, even though pictures began talking in 1929 and I was born in 1960. When I was a kid, silent films was what were shown at the public library to kids on Saturday afternoons, because Super8 projectors...
Tags: Movies, Music, Music Industry, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Edgewood
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Must-see summer classical and jazz/blues concerts in Chicago
Tribune music critics John von Rhein (classical) and Howard Reich (jazz/blues) each pick 10 shows you shouldn't miss this summer: Classical: “The Circus Princess” and “The Cousin from Nowhere”: Emmerich Kalman's three-ring...
Tags: Thomas Robinson, Grant Park, Entertainment Events, Music, Culture
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Great Old Broad Series: Estelle Parsons
Last Sunday's screening at New Haven's Lyric Hall of the documentary "Broads,"that features salty, outspoken interviews with actresses of a certain age remind me of some of my own favorite interviews of like-minded dames. I'll post a series of these...
Tags: Music Theater, Movies, Music, Entertainment Events, Dave Garroway
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Ravinia high on proven marquee names in upcoming schedule
The Ravinia Festival remains one of the nation’s heavyweight classical music impresarios even if it increasingly finds itself in the position of playing Goliath to the David of the Grant Park Music Festival at Millennium Park. Ho-hum symphonic...Tags: Boz Scaggs, Entertainment Events, Ramsey Lewis, River North, Arts and Culture
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Classically Trained: For first time in decades, Chicago Symphony coming to O.C.
Next week's classical lineup features music in a much-lauded concert hall and music played by America's (arguably) greatest orchestra. A chamber group comprised of musicians from the Pacific Symphony will be performing at Soka University's wonderful...Tags: Arthur Honegger, Music, Culture, Riccardo Muti, Concerts
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Pacific Symphony season to star Lang Lang and honor Ellington
Culture MonsterPianists Lang Lang and Andre Watts and cellist Alisa Weilerstein are key soloists for the Pacific Symphony's 2012-13 season. The annual American Composers Festival will focus on the music of Duke Ellington.... -
Q+LA Esa-Pekka Salonen
LA Times MagazineThe L.A. Phil conductor laureate returns home with a newly unearthed Shostakovich opera.... -
Artist Steve Roden blends old photos, recordings on new CD
![The genesis of "... i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces," a new book of vintage photographs with musical accompaniment, came simply, during one of artist Steve Roden's regular visits to the flea market.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-07/63579736-29101053.jpg "The genesis of "... i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces,\" a new book of vintage photographs with musical accompaniment, came simply, during one of artist Steve Roden's regular visits to the flea market.")
The genesis of "... i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces," a new book of vintage photographs with musical accompaniment, came simply, during one of artist Steve Roden's regular visits to the flea market.
"This is how it always happens —...Tags: William Wordsworth, Graveyard (music group), Poetry, Arts and Culture, Human Interest
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Castleton Festival keeps growing
The most atmospheric way to experience the Castleton Festival, which opens Saturday, is to travel down to Virginia's Rappahannock County and catch opera productions or orchestra concerts on the spacious, idyllic estate of celebrated conductor Lorin...Tags: Music Theater, Music, Local Government, Culture, George Mason
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L.A. Opera's summer camp: Putting on a show
Culture MonsterLos Angeles students are preparing the perform “Brundibar” at L.A. Opera's Opera Camp, where they will also learn about a vastly different camp -- the Nazi concentration camp at Terezin, Czechoslovakia, that interned 15,000 children from... -
Jazz-classical fusion a work in progress
![Jazz people like to brag that their idiom is "America's classical music." But if you catch some of them in a certain mood, you'll find that they long to merge their art with what much of the Western world calls "classical music" — the idiom that gave you Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, etc. The reverse is also true — classical musicians who want to get down with the jazz folk, to learn their freewheeling ways or merely steal a few licks and vamps for their own purposes.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-01/58773349-15124951.jpg "Jazz people like to brag that their idiom is "America's classical music.\" But if you catch some of them in a certain mood, you'll find that they long to merge their art with what much of the Western world calls \"classical music\" — the idiom that gave you Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, etc. The reverse is also true — classical musicians who want to get down with the jazz folk, to learn their freewheeling ways or merely steal a few licks and vamps for their own purposes.")
Jazz people like to brag that their idiom is "America's classical music." But if you catch some of them in a certain mood, you'll find that they long to merge their art with what much of the Western world calls "classical music" — the idiom that...Tags: Stan Getz, George Gershwin, Central Park, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Classical Music (genre)
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