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30 December 2010

Ringing in 2011 at the Neujahrskonzert

and please, your highness, dress like this, thank you.

How did the Austrians come up with something real to do on New Year’s Eve when the rest of the world just kind of fumbles around? [...]

10 May 2010

L.A. Music Center co-commissions revival of Merce Cunningham work

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It’s a proud fact that the Los Angeles Music Center, along with two French dance festivals, has co-commissioned a restaging of Merce Cunningham’s ORATORIO from 1986. We’ll see the work in upcoming Disney Hall performances June 2 – 4, 2010.

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12 April 2010

Meredith Monk, liberator of singers

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The Los Angeles Master Chorale featured the compositions of avant-garde choreographer/composer Meredith Monk. Monk was present and performed in the program which featured the West Coast premiere of her new work, “Weave.” [...]

2 February 2010

Herb Alpert @ Disney Concert Hall

Herb 'n Lani

Describes Disney Hall concert of Herb Alpert and his wife, singer Lani Hall [...]

27 April 2009

Thelonious Monk’s piano

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Amidst the brouhaha over Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman’s anti-U.S. protest during a recital at Disney Hall, arts•meme was struck by this information nugget in Mark Swed’s L.A. Times story:

Zimerman is a magnificent obsessive.  He travels with his own Steinway, is his own piano technician, and even his own truck driver.  He typically spends half [...]