Music of Morton Feldman at Cal Arts
As part of a two-week long concert series of experimental music, For John Cage (1982) by Morton Feldman was heard at The Wild Beast performance space on the campus of…
Review: Christian Wolff’s ‘Changing the System’ Performed in Los Angeles
On August 9, Christian Wolff’s Changing the System (1973) was performed by the new experimental music group Southland Ensemble, in the heart of historic China Town here in Los Angeles.…
Liquid Skin Ensemble Concert In Los Angeles
Liquid Skin Ensemble teamed up this weekend with the dance company Naked With Shoes for an evening of new music and choreography at the AndrewShire Gallery in the vibrant Koreatown…
More From The 2013 Ojai Music Festival
The 2013 Ojai Festival continued its look at American composers with a performance of Suite for Symphonic Strings by Lou Harrison on Saturday, June 8 in the Libbey Bowl. A…
John Luther Adams at the Ojai Music Festival
The 2013 Ojai Music Festival began this week under the artistic direction of choreographer Mark Morris. The festival will focus on American composers including Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, John Cage,…
Tom Johnson In Los Angeles
On Friday, February 22 the week-long 2013 residency of Tom Johnson in Los Angeles was capped off with a concert of his music at the wulf, an experimental performance space…
Gloria Cheng Plays John Cage in Pasadena
The 100th anniversary of the birth of John Cage was celebrated in Pasadena, California at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center with a concert by Gloria Cheng titled Two Sides…
A Conversation With Dr. Noreen Green of the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony
The great diversity of the Los Angeles area has produced a wide variety of cultural institutions and one of those is the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony (LAJS) – an expression…
The Gospel According to The Other Mary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPZU_fK4-J8 Early reviews care of bloggers (one well-informed, one not so much) Boosey and Hawkes has a perusal score available–through an inadequate interface methinks–here. I was able to get some…
The Opera Librettos of Maurice Sendak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSbOCfIh3HI There has been plenty of eulogizing and assessment of Maurice Sendak’s remarkable career, most of it focused (rightly so) on his wonderful books. While Sendak’s work in opera and…