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By Mark Swed |
October 13, 2008
The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage, newly added to Santa Monica College, had its semi-public tryouts over the summer and a gala last month with singer Barbara Cook, who was amplified.
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By Mark Swed |
October 8, 2008
A month ago, William Kraft turned 85, and about that time the composer finished the series of chamber pieces he calls “Encounters,” which he began in the early ’70s.
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Entertainment |
By Mark Swed |
October 6, 2008
After the final weeks of last season, chock-full of new and adventurous music; after conducting Mahler’s extravagant Eighth Symphony at the Hollywood Bowl last month; and after Thursday night’s surprisingly timely gala, Esa-Pekka Salonen has suddenly turned seemingly tame.
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By Mark Swed |
October 4, 2008
Pierre Boulez once infamously called for burning down opera houses as a way of beginning all over again with what seemed, to progressives in the 1950s, a moribund art form.
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By Mark Swed |
October 3, 2008
Robert Wilson’s exquisite production of “Madame Butterfly” has once more floated in for a delicate landing at Los Angeles Opera.
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By Mark Swed |
September 29, 2008
As some 40-year-olds find out, you can go home again, but sticking around may not be so easy.
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By Mark Swed |
September 28, 2008
IMMEDIATELY after conducting the last Los Angeles Philharmonic concert of the 2007-08 season in June, music director Esa-Pekka Salonen took off for Stockholm, where the Swedish Radio Orchestra celebrated his 50th birthday with an affectionately screwball gala.
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By Mark Swed |
September 26, 2008
Among the things that Robert Een’s opera, “The Escape Artist,” handily escapes is opera.
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By Mark Swed |
September 22, 2008
The Broad Stage, the latest addition to the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center, put out the welcome mat Saturday night.
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