Last Night in L.A.: Another Monday Evening
Last night’s Monday Evening Concert was programmed by Kent Nagano: “Bach and the Music of Today”. This is hardly a fresh theme, and last night’s program didn’t reveal any fresh…
Last Night in L.A.: New Voices
Monday Evening Concerts are alive and well and being given in the great acoustics of Zipper Hall! And if you don’t know why that’s important you’re reading the wrong blog.…
Last Night in L.A.: the Argento
Last night’s Never-on-Monday Evening Concert at LACMA presented the Argento Chamber Ensemble in its sampling of German music. Lanier Sammons wrote a nice review of the concert’s performance in New…
Last Night in L.A.: eighth blackbird
The County Museum of Art didn’t cancel all serious music: just the Monday Evening Concerts. Under new management, the music program now offers occasional concerts on any night but Monday.…
Last Night in L.A.: Celebrating Steve Reich
Last night’s Los Angeles Master Chorale concert in the Walt Disney appeared to be sold out. The only thing that might surprise outsiders was that the advertising had emphasized that…
Last Night in L.A.: the Adams Birthday Portrait
John Adams is almost 60 (February 15), and the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella concert last night had Adams as conductor of three of his works. It appeared to me…
Last Night in L.A.: Blue-orange chords
The description in the title is how Messiaen described a section of the piano part in the second movement of his great “Quartet for the End of Time” (1941). Last…
Last Night in L.A.: 25 Years for the New Music Group
There hasn’t been much contemporary music in Los Angeles over the past month. (Does music over the holidays have to be so traditional? Isn’t there much festive contemporary music?) But…
Last Night in L.A.: Monday Evening Concerts Reborn
A sold-out REDCAT held a brilliant concert to celebrate the re-birth of our Monday Evening Concerts and to honor the late Dorrance Stalvey, the man who directed the concerts for…
Last Night in L.A.: Too Many Talents?
Tuesday night Thomas Ades was the guest pianist, filling Leonard Stein’s slot, in the Piano Spheres concert at Zipper Hall of the Colburn School. This brought out the largest audience…