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Clearly, the West Coast, Left Coast festival would have been remiss without nodding to Frank Zappa, one of Los Angeles' greatest and least easily categorized musical mavericks, whose work was the star of Tuesday’s Green Umbrella concert at Walt Disney...
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Last week, on one of his rare evenings not spent in makeup sweating under a spotlight, Plácido Domingo watched from a luxury box as the resurgent L.A. Lakers dusted off the New York Knicks 100-90 at Staples Center. Down on the floor, Domingo's friend...
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Recently the orchestra started going seriously into prisons, because they also feel that part of the education work is to do with building up trust and tolerance and team building.� Looking ahead, the Berlin Philharmonic�s next project is a collaboration...
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What does a renowned, Harvard-educated, Pulitzer Prize-winning classical music composer say just after the standing-ovation world premiere of his new symphony at Walt Disney Concert Hall, performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of its...
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But the Los Angeles Philharmonic shop offers plenty of mugs and T-shirts splashed with the arms-outstretched image of its new maestro, Gustavo Dudamel . In fact, his face has been plastered across town on buses, billboards and banners marching down Sunset...
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Phil conductor makes the most of a gala program. The Orange County Register Gustavo Dudamel, the 28-year-old Venezuelan conductor, made his much anticipated debut as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Walt Disney Concert Hall Thursday...
it's a lot of fun," maestro Gustavo Dudamel said Thursday night at the inaugural gala for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, regarding all the hoopla surrounding his arrival. It wasn't just Saturday's free concert at the Hollywood Bowl, his picture on city...
Tags: Gustavo Dudamel, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Mr. Dudamel, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mahler, John Adams
The happiest sounds wafting across the plaza Saturday afternoon at the Hollywood Bowl had a Latin cadence. Spanish, spoken by the crowd of families, picnickers with their wine bottles and high school kids in their East L.A. punk clothes; Spanish sung...
Tags: Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, music directors, Hollywood Bowl, Venezuela, Maracaibo
Herbie Hancock has grand plans for his new position as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's creative chair for jazz. The two-year stint, which begins in 2010, includes overseeing jazz programming for the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl, helping...
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Steven Witser, principal trombonist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, died of an apparent heart attack Monday night in Pasadena, the orchestra announced. He was 48. "The shock of Steve's sudden and unexpected death has robbed us of one of our most beloved...