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Visiting Orlando Not Just For Disney — Orlando Phil Orchestra!

Visiting Orlando Not Just For Disney — Orlando Phil Orchestra!

Next time you plan a trip taking the family to Orlando for Theme Parks, make sure you visit Dr. Philips Center for lots of entertainment. Last night I attended a superb concert by the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and it was wonderful. Review below. The Orlando Philharmonic Conductor Mei-Ann Chen, praised for her passionate conducting style, […]

By February 25, 2024 0 Comments Read More →
Hershey Felder: CHOPIN IN PARIS

Hershey Felder: CHOPIN IN PARIS

(Beverly Hills, CA, June 14, 2022) – The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents pianist and actor Hershey Felder in the premiere of Hershey Felder: CHOPIN IN PARIS by Hershey Felder and directed by Joel Zwick, from Tuesday, July 5 through Sunday, July 24, 2022, in The Wallis’ Lovelace Studio Theater. Following his last live performance […]

The Royal Opera House reveals highlights of its first full Season since 2019

The Royal Opera House reveals highlights of its first full Season since 2019

 The Royal Opera House is excited to share early plans for its 2021/22 Season, the first full Royal Opera House Season since 2019.    Today we reveal highlights including five world premieres from The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera as well as a wealth of British and international talent taking to our stages in the […]

LA Opera: “Roberto Devereux” Opened Feb 22,2020

LA Opera: “Roberto Devereux” Opened Feb 22,2020

From February 22 thru March 14, 2020 It was a bit of an adjustment on opening night when the role of Elizabeth was being acted by someone other than the singer.  If not for the exquisite voice of soprano Angela Meade, who sang the role of Elizabeth from down stage right, it could have been […]

By February 25, 2020 0 Comments Read More →
Review: LA Phil -February 18, 2020  Yuja Wang − Goddess in Gold

Review: LA Phil -February 18, 2020  Yuja Wang − Goddess in Gold

WATCH VIDEO Tonight, at the opening of Yuja Wang’s piano performance, she is heard from the wings over a loud speaker. Her message to her fans is that she will not play in order of the program, instead she will let the music lead her. “Listen with all your senses,” says Yuja. Audiences enjoy guessing what glamorous outfit the star will make her entrance in, and murmurs can be heard in the aisles. Known for sexy, tight dresses, the anticipation is part of the Yuja experience. The mistress of the piano donned a beautiful gold jeweled and sequenced long draping gown, which was mostly backless and very tight. Of course she wore her signature […]

By February 23, 2020 0 Comments Read More →
Saturday, February 8 at 8PM – Weill’s Violin Concerto with Salonen

Saturday, February 8 at 8PM – Weill’s Violin Concerto with Salonen

WATCH VIDEO Weill’s Violin Concerto (1924) – with the unusual accompaniment of a wind band – at times surges with anxious energy and, at other moments, broods with world-weariness. Salonen closes with Hindemith’s magnificent Symphony (1934), composed as material for his politically charged opera about a Renaissance master painter.  Artists Los Angeles Philharmonic Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor […]

By February 7, 2020 0 Comments Read More →
LA Phil: Mehta’s Mahler

LA Phil: Mehta’s Mahler

Review: LA Phil is celebrating its 100th anniversary and what better way to celebrate than bringing the great and distinguished conductor Zubin Mehta for the season. Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 ‘Resurrection’ is one of the top symphonies of all time and led by Mehta, it was a powerhouse of a concert with four encores for the Conductor Emeritus. Mehta once told an interviewer – […]

By January 7, 2020 0 Comments Read More →
LA Phil: Mehta Conducts Wagner & More

LA Phil: Mehta Conducts Wagner & More

January 11, 2020. 8 pm Highlights from The Twilight of the Gods, followed by early modernist works. Conductor Zubin Mehta leads an adventurous look at German Romanticism as it develops into the birth of 20th-century music, from the lushness of the full orchestra in Wagner’s final Ring opera to the concentrated brevity of Webern’s nine-instrument concerto. With […]

By January 7, 2020 0 Comments Read More →
LA PHIL- Seong-Jin Cho performs Rachmanioff’s Piano Concerto No. 2

LA PHIL- Seong-Jin Cho performs Rachmanioff’s Piano Concerto No. 2

The fast-rising Korean star pianist plays Rachmaninoff’s ultra-Romantic concerto, and Dudamel leads Stravinsky’s game-changing ballet score with its complex yet primitive-sounding rhythms. Dudamel and music by the Russian Romantic and the Russian Revolutionary promises to be outstanding! The second part of the concert will be Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. With an overwhelming talent and […]

By November 25, 2019 0 Comments Read More →
Geffen Playhouse (Westwood) – “Key Largo” with Andy Garcia Opens this Weekend!

Geffen Playhouse (Westwood) – “Key Largo” with Andy Garcia Opens this Weekend!

WATCH TRAILER Review: Friday, November 15th performance You don’t have to know anything about or have seen the film, “Key Largo” to enjoy this wonderfully produced adaptation. Audiences thought so — with a standing ovation of this world premiere. Not having a reference to the film makes you appreciate this production which stands on its […]

By November 13, 2019 0 Comments Read More →
LACO- Composer Missy Mazzoli – THIS WEEKEND

LACO- Composer Missy Mazzoli – THIS WEEKEND

REVIEW Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s dynamic Music Director Jaime Martin said he wanted to curate a program of a new composer with influences of the old master composers, and it was fabulous! Martin opens with conducting Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin and the West Coast premiere of Dark with Excessive Bright for Double Bass and Strings by LACO Artist-in-Residence […]

By November 13, 2019 0 Comments Read More →
LACO’S Mozart & Schubert

LACO’S Mozart & Schubert

It was another great evening out at UCLA’s Royce Hall. To get to the concert hall, you enter the lawn where the campus’s first four buildings stand -Powell Library, Kaplan Hall and Haines Hall. In honor of the year-long celebration of the 100 years founding of UCLA, a magical purple light illuminates the building across from Royce.  Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s program included selections from Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera, Dardanus, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 19 and the final two pieces by Franz Schubert. It was an exciting combination […]

By November 4, 2019 0 Comments Read More →
LA OPERA – The Light in the Piazza – Ends Oct. 20th!

LA OPERA – The Light in the Piazza – Ends Oct. 20th!

LA OPERA PRESENTS: the John Berry & Anthony Lilley for Scenario Two and Karl Sydow production of  The Light in the Piazza Renée Fleming, Dove Cameron and Brian Stokes Mitchelllead a cast that includes Rob Houchen, Marie McLaughlin,Liam Tamne and Celinde Schoenmaker Only seven performances: October 12 through 20 Thursday, October 17 at 7:30pm Friday, […]

By October 15, 2019 0 Comments Read More →
Clarinetist David Orlowsky and Italy’s famed Quartetto Di Cremona

Clarinetist David Orlowsky and Italy’s famed Quartetto Di Cremona

The Wallis presents in an interesting ​ and entertaining evening of Klezmer music with a contemporary interpretation. The program opened with Osvaldo Golijov’s Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind. Golijov is a Russian-born, Argentine composer who says of the piece, although wordless, “sounds as if it were written in three different Jewish languages ─ the prelude and the first movement, the most ancient, are in Aramaic; the second movement is in Yiddish, the rich and fragile language of a long exile; the third movement and the postlude are in sacred Hebrew.”Quartetto Di Cremona has a reputation as […]

By October 15, 2019 0 Comments Read More →
LACO – Jaime Martín’s debut as Music Director

LACO – Jaime Martín’s debut as Music Director

“Welcome Jaime!” Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s season opening at the Alex Theatre was phenomenal. LA Chamber Orchestra was on fire — led by the burning passion of its new Spanish conductor, maestro Jaime Martín. He hits the stage and you immediately know this is going to be big. He is a colorful personality with an excess of […]

By September 30, 2019 0 Comments Read More →