Glenn Gould

by Frank James The congressional committee handling the arrangements for President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration has released the program for the event which will include famous entertainers like Aretha Franklin, Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman and a...

At exactly two minutes before show time, Patricia Barber whisks into the Green Mill Jazz Club, says a quick hello to the guys on the bandstand, stretches the joints in her hands, places her iPad inside the grand piano, noodles on the keyboard for a...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt may now be starring in the time travel film “Looper,” but the actor has long made giant leaps look easy. From “10 Things I Hate About You” to “Mysterious Skin” to “Brick” to “(...

Now playing in limited release are two new documentaries that should pique the interest of classical-music fans both casual and die-hard. "Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould" is the latest in a line of films to chronicle the......

The last thing Davis Guggenheim wants in the Oscar documentary competition is for “The Lottery,” the more emotional and less hyped version of his “Waiting for Superman” (interviewing some of the same subjects, climaxing with the...

Glenn Gould Prize goes to singer-writer Leonard Cohen...

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I'm always brought up a little short by the Cinema Audio Society's (sound mixing guild)  honors at this time of year. You always get films whose sound impressed you, and then, in offbeat categories, offbeat nominations. “Inception,” Black...

Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's new music director, has just completed his first series of concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall, but that doesn't mean the Venezuelan conductor is finished with festivities for the season. On Oct. 27 he........

Gustavo Dudamel is back in town, and Thursday night he conducted a magnificently theatrical performance of Verdi’s Requiem that felt like his first real concert as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. All Los Angeles, of course, knows that......

Richard Goode -- whose recital at Walt Disney Concert Hall Tuesday night was a splendid and noble affair -- is the singing pianist. He may not be the only one. Nor is he without his own brand of funny business.......

The crowd at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Heroic Beethoven” program Tuesday night at the Hollywood Bowl can be forgiven for thinking the heroic meant them, enduring an arctic chill to hear the Third Piano Concerto and Third Symphony. Crazy as.......