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Live: Lou Reed, Ulrich Krieger and Sarth Calhoun
Times Pop Music CriticThe REDCAT stage looked like a rehearsal room Friday night when Lou Reed, Ulrich Krieger and Sarth Calhoun took the stage. Effects boxes, pedals and other sound-manipulation tools were strewed here and there in cluttered arrangements. In the center, a...Tags: Lou Reed, Metal and Mineral, Popular Music, Electronics, Laurie Anderson
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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: Otto Klemperer, Virgil Thomson, Adolf Hitler, Music Theater, Book
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DANCE
Among the dance highlights this season: The Kirov Ballet, now more than 250 years old, will visit the Southland twice before year's end. Other season highlights:
'Ocean'
Before his death, John Cage planned to write a score for a large orchestra deployed...Tags: Mark Morris, Dance, Merce Cunningham, Pina Bausch, Trisha Brown
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'The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde' edited by David W. Bernstein
The San Francisco
Tape Music Center
1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde
Edited by David W. Bernstein
University of California Press/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: 336 pp., $65
THERE was a time when the zeitgeist used to get bashed about...Tags: Ken Kesey, Arnold Schoenberg, Music Theater, Classical Music, Electronics
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Girl Talk easily blends appealing samples
Chicago Tribune criticIn Girl Talk's world, anything is possible: The Carpenters jam with Metallica, Jay-Z collaborates with Radiohead, the Butthole Surfers pretend they're in "Flashdance." That's just a smattering of the hundreds of seemingly absurd recombinations conjured...Tags: Lollapalooza, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Dance, George Harrison, Popular Music
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Live: Chanticleer on 'Mission Road' in San Luis Obispo
Times Music CriticSAN LUIS OBISPO -- On a balmy evening here Thursday, the dozen men of Chanticleer, dressed in identical stylish dark suits, began a slow procession down the aisle of the San Luis Obispo de Tolosa mission, founded in 1772. It was a solemn, beautiful,...Tags: Music Industry, Lou Harrison, Society, Harry Partch, Ceremonies
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Artist mixed paint, sculpture, cast-offs
Times Art CriticRobert Rauschenberg, the protean artist from small-town Texas whose imaginative commitment to hybrid forms of painting and sculpture changed the course of American and European art between 1950 and the early 1970s, died Monday night, according to New...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Periodicals, Robert Hughes, Mark Rothko, Venice
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All he asks is: 'Try to like it'
Special to The TimesHELMUT Lachenmann's work is very strange, even by contemporary standards. This preeminent German composer shapes what are essentially noises -- taps, scrapes and rustlings, though made largely by conventional instruments -- into beautiful, even spiritual,...Tags: Christianity, Lukas Foss, Popular Music, Classical Music, Helmut Lachenmann
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Artist Jennifer Bornstein curates a show at the Hammer Museum
Special to The TimesJennifer Bornstein was a kid in a candy store -- with almost half a year to gorge herself. When Hammer Museum curator Allegra Pesenti asked Bornstein to rummage through the institution's huge collection of graphic work and put together a show of...Tags: Martha Graham, David Hockney, Man Ray, Adolph Gottlieb, Photography
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'Goodbye 20th Century' by David Browne
Special to The TimesJune 5, 2008 Sonic Youth roared to the front of the underground music scene in 1988 with "Daydream Nation," a double-LP still regarded as their masterpiece. Oozing with detuned guitars, hoarse spoken/sung/shouted vocals, near-abstract lyrics and...Tags: Literature, Lollapalooza, Teen-agers, Neil Young, Book
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Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg dead at 82
zachary.dowdy@newsday.comRobert Rauschenberg, a major American pop artist who produced some of his work at a small Long Island studio that has drawn formidable talent for decades, died Monday of heart failure, a representative said. He was 82. Rauschenberg's death was...Tags: Jasper Johns, Merce Cunningham, Andy Warhol, Josef Albers, John F. Kennedy
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Letters to the editor
New directions for travel in L.A. Re "Ending gridlock," editorial, Jan. 5 Your editorial suggests that solo drivers should be charged a fee because the people causing the problem should pay the cost of its solution. The reality of life in Los Angeles is...Tags: North Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Heavy Engineering, Topanga, Primaries, Government
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