The climax to the season-opening concert Sunday by the Pacific
Chorale in the new Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall at the
Orange County Performing Arts Center was a double premiere: first
hearings of new works by important, internationally acknowledged
American composers Morten Lauridsen and Jake Heggie.
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Five gifted singers – budding opera stars, if you will – members of
the St.
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A longtime visitor to local stages, violinist Cho-Liang Lin
nonetheless made his first appearance with the Los Angeles Chamber
Orchestra over the weekend at the opening events of the ensemble’s
38th consecutive season.
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Even in an unstaged concert production, Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess”
demands the full resources of an opera company.
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To those attending, for the third night, the festivities opening the
new Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, Sunday
evening may have seemed anticlimactic.
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Before he was called away on family business earlier this week,
Miguel Harth-Bedoya had planned a most engaging program for his
Thursday night appearance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the
Hollywood Bowl.
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COOL, confident and cocky, the American conductor Hugh Wolff returned
to the Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday night after a 19-year absence.
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GENTLE, cooling breezes from the West, temperatures in the 70s, a
varied program of serenades played enthusiastically by the Los
Angeles Philharmonic – these were the components of a most
companionable evening in Cahuenga Pass on Tuesday night.
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Celebrating itself and 20 productive years in residence at Segerstrom
Hall at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, the
Pacific Symphony said farewell this week to its longtime home.
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Concluding a brief, two-stop California tour, the conductorless
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performed Monday night in the Irvine
Barclay Theatre to a full house of ostensible connoisseurs –
“ostensible” because this audience never coughed, sneezed, rattled
paper or misbehaved throughout the program.
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