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A Feast of Carols - Oak Park Concert Chorale
Staff reporterOn December 18, 2011 at 4: 00pm, join the Oak Park Concert Chorale, Paul Lindblad Director, for A Feast of Carols to welcome the holiday season. Virgil Thomson's Scenes from the Holy Infancy will be the centerpiece of this festive concert which will also...Tags: Oak Park, Chicago
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A Feast of Carols - Christmas Concert
Staff reporterOn November 20, 2011 at 4:00 pm, join the Oak Park Concert Chorale (OPCC),Paul Lindblad director, for A Feast of Carols to welcome the holiday season. Virgil Thomson's Scenes from the Holy Infancy will be the centerpiece of this festive concert which will...Tags: Francis Poulenc, Music
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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: Christine Brewer brings Wagner and others to Disney Hall
Culture MonsterTaking advantage of an overly long mid-“Ring” three-day break at Los Angeles Opera -- between “Die Walküre” on Sunday and “Siegfried” on Thursday -- the Los Angeles Philharmonic did the neighborly thing Tuesday night. For its contribution... -
Betty Allen dies at 82; mezzo-soprano and music teacher
Betty Allen, one of the first African American singers to reach prominence on the international opera stage, died June 22 of complications from kidney disease at a hospital in Valhalla, N.Y. She was 82.
If contralto Marian Anderson in the 1930s and 1940s...Tags: Music Industry, Opera (genre), Leonard Bernstein, Hospitals and Clinics, Gertrude Stein
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A drama critic's turn to face the music
Critics don't get much respect. (Pause here for raucous laughter.) If you doubt it, look up the word "critic" in any book of quotations and see what you find.
H.L. Mencken's "New Dictionary of Quotations" is full of zinger after zinger, most of which...Tags: Music Industry, Opera (genre), H.L. Mencken, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Literature
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Critic's notebook: Revelatory Henry Cowell revival at Lincoln Center
Culture MonsterNEW YORK -- Henry Cowell, the all-American composer of the 20th century, did it all. “I want to live in the whole world of music,” he said. He was “the open sesame of new music in America,” John Cage said....... -
Manifestly Maestro
Just two months ago, I wrote about how my obsession with Elizabeth Taylor colored my choices and changed my life. While that is certainly true, it was an outside manifestation, lighthearted and fun. Inside, though, at a much more profound place, its my...Tags: Leonard Bernstein, Chin, Documentary (genre), Long Island, Health and Safety at School
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Pacific Symphony's American Composers Festival has scores to settle
Carl St.Clair can clearly recall being in the third grade in his hometown of Yoakum, Texas, and being "marched down to the Grand Theater where we all got to see 'Ben-Hur.' I was totally captivated," he says. "The score was overwhelming to me."
Fifty...Tags: Music Industry, Hospitals and Clinics, Roy Harris, Star Wars (movie), World War II (1939-1945)
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'The Rest Is Noise, Listening to the Twentieth Century' by Alex Ross
Special to The Times[This Book Review originally ran in the Los Angeles Times on Nov. 11, 2007] A unified, comprehensive history of 20th century music is the philosopher's stone of modern criticism: How to transmute such vast, maddening complexity into conceptual gold? It's...Tags: Music Industry, Opera (genre), Philosophy, John Adams, Fanny Brice
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Von Stade sounds out the Broad Stage
Times Music CriticThe Eli and Edythe Broad Stage, newly added to Santa Monica College, had its semi-public tryouts over the summer and a gala last month with singer Barbara Cook, who was amplified. But the opening night concert Saturday, a recital by mezzo-soprano...Tags: Music Industry, Opera (genre), Theater, Barbara Cook, Gertrude Stein
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The accordion holds a lofty place
MOST people think of the accordion, if they think of it at all, as a social instrument, wheezing out polkas and folk tunes. The sound of it brings to mind French cafes, Mexican plazas, German beer gardens, Argentine nightclubs. Nick Ariondo, perhaps the...Tags: Music Industry, David Diamond, Opera (genre), Lukas Foss, University of Southern California
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