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Thursday November 21, 2024 3:21 am
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FEATURE STORIES
LET’S GO ROCK SOME OPERA
If rock can go opera, can opera go rock? WHY NOT? asks vocal pedagogue Charles Moulton who proposes changing the world of music by using the idiom of one genre to describe the other.
EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
“Einstein”, the 1976 groundbreaking work of the imagination by Wilson and Glass is opera as we don’t know it – liberated from traditional narrative, libretto, and conventionally structured music.
EINSTEIN AT HOME
In collaboration with LA Opera… THE EINSTEIN PAPERS PROJECT EXHIBIT Einstein spent the last two decades of his life in Princeton, New Jersey where he was a faculty member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1936 until his death in 1955. Founded in 1930 to encourage and support the kind of original research in…
IN CONVERSATION / IN CELEBRATION
Celebrating “Einstein on the Beach” The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP UCLA) welcomes “Einstein on the Beach” to Los Angeles and celebrates LA Opera‘s first presentation of this groundbreaking work by staging a freewheeling conversation with its acclaimed creators: Robert Wilson, Philip Glass and Lucinda Childs moderated by CAP UCLA Artistic…
NEWS SPOTLIGHTS
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER RESIDENCY
La Jolla Music Society presents “Romantic Epicenter” November 8, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s first of its four-concert Winter Season Residency featurimg works of Dvořák, Schumann, and Brahms
LANG LANG: UN MESSENGER OF PEACE
Chinese pianist Lang Lang has been designated United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special focus on global education, U.N. Secretary Ban Ki-moon announced October 28.
“EINSTEIN” HEADS TO LA OPERA
Rarely performed work by Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, and Lucinda Childs that revolutionized opera in 1976 makes its LA premiere October 11, 12, and 13.
THINK DENK / THINK “GENIUS”
Pianist/writer/teacher/blogger Jeremy Denk receives 2013 “GENIUS GRANT” from the MacArthur Foundation.
RICHARD TUCKER GALA
In a special tribute to celebrate the centenary of the late RICHARD TUCKER, an illustrious all-American group of singers joins the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the New York Choral Society, under the baton of Riccardo Frizza, at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall on Nov 17 for a program of favorite arias and ensembles.
GIVEAWAY
YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERTS, Vol 2
A FanFaire-Kultur Holiday CELEBRATION THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL MUSIC DVD GIVEAWAY, BAR NONE! And for many good reasons! 1. This is a pricey, extraordinary 9-disc DVD set – THE PERFECT HOLIDAY GIFT for the special people in your life or for yourself, and there are five such sets to be given away. That should…
