French ballet in the Hollywood Hills, contemporary ballet downtown, two new chamber ballet companies in Santa Monica and Thousand Oaks, a contemporary dance fest has a ball in West LA, a silver anniversary festival progresses to El Monte, hip hop infuses Pasadena, West Hollywood, and downtown, more So Cal dance this week and a peek …
Three-time Grammy Award winner Hilary Hahn happily blazed through Samuel Barber’s “Violin Concerto, Op. 14” at Disney Hall on March 19, adding grace and muscular musicality to the 1939 composition. The evening also included Arvo Pärt’s “Silhouette,” composed in 2009, and Antonín Dvořák’s “Symphony No. 7” (1884). Grammy award-winning conductor Paavo Järvi led the Los …
The U.S. premiere of Connor D’Netto’s “Uncertain Planning” was held at Walt Disney Concert Hall on November 26–an apt choice, in both title and composition, given how hard the pandemic has hit concert halls. The Los Angeles Philharmonic is back for a full 2021/22 season at the downtown venue, flush with enthusiastic and grateful audiences. …
With Piazzolla at the Bowl from Rick Meghiddo on Vimeo. The concert of Astor Piazzolla’s Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas / The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, at the Hollywood Bowl, on August 26, 2021, was of historic importance. A public of about 15,000 people came to the concert conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, with the performance …
The Los Angeles Philharmonic served up another of its ever-inventive creations last week. Conductor Gustavo Dudamel led an inspired pairing of all four Charles Ives symphonies and Antonín Dvořák’s final three. The overarching theme was the American story: one via a Czech immigrant’s melting pot perspective and the other, an American original’s take on his …
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The Los Angeles Philharmonic closed out its centennial birthday weekend on Sunday, October 27 with verve, pairing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the “Ode to Joy,” with a commissioned work by Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz. The four-day bash began on Thursday with the triumvirate of Zubin Mehta, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Gustavo Dudamel—the first two greats, of course, …
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Russia’s fierce national pride was on display this past weekend at the Hollywood Bowl’s enduring crowd-pleaser “Tchaikovsky Spectacular with Fireworks,” conducted by Gustavo Dudamel leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Russian’s national anthem, “God Save the Tsar,” provided a bookend for the evening. Its theme figured both in the program’s opener, Tchaikovsky’s Marche Slave, as well …
There was a pair of firsts at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Dvořák and Saint-Saens performance on August 2. It would be the first time the orchestra would be playing Antonín Dvořák’s Overture to Vanda as well as Camille Saint-Saëns’ Violin Concerto No. 1 in A major. LA Phil’s assistant conductor Paolo Bortolameolli noted the fact …
Conductor Gustavo Dudamel delivered the second of more than a half-dozen Hollywood Bowl concerts on July 12, commanding a superb Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2. Uzbekistani pianist Behzod Abduraimov joined Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic; he was a last-minute substitute for an ill Khatia Buniatishvili. No. 2 largely solidified Sergei Rachmaninoff’s standing. It’s a …
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