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Music Review: Frank Zappa Green Umbrella concert at Disney Hall
Clearly, the West Coast, Left Coast festival would have been remiss without nodding to Frank Zappa, one of Los Angeles' greatest and least easily categorized musical mavericks, whose work was the star of Tuesday's Green Umbrella concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Frank Zappa would give you a sneer and a sarcastic response whenever the word "respectable" was mentioned, but in fact, he did want to be recognized as a serious American composer - if on his own terms.
LA Phil players will bring music to Arcadia Library
The Classical Kaleidoscope concert series will host a free concert at 7:15 p.m. Dec.
To tux or not: More classical performers forgo traditional formal attire
Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel wears one. Hans Graf at the Houston Symphony does not.
Dudamel takes on a pair of unfinished symphonies
A week after raising the roof of Walt Disney Concert Hall with a powerful reading of Verdi's Requiem, Gustavo Dudamel, still in demonstration mode as the new music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, went in a different direction.
Another busy November on tap in classical music
November is always packed tightly with important classical music events but this year's schedule is even more noteworthy, due in part to the Los Angeles Philharmonic's three-week-long "West Coast/Left Coast" festival.
Three Jewish classical musicians at the height of their powers will come together here next weekend for the world premiere of a new work commissioned by the Kansas City Symphony.
Mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung speaks about her upcoming recital in Troy
The American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, who appears Thursday night at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, has sung major opera roles in some of the largest and most important houses in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera and La Scala.
Dirty Projectors To Team With The LA Philharmonic This February
Brooklyn-based experimental rockers, Dirty Projectors , will make their debut at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Saturday, February 27, in a co-headlining performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic .
Dudamel tackles Verdi's Requiem
Gustavo Dudamel is back in town, and Thursday night he conducted a magnificently theatrical performance of Verdi's Requiem that felt like his first real concert as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Von Oeyen Performs Solo Recital at St. Matthew's
Matthew's presents pianist Andrew von Oeyen in a solo recital of music by Liszt, Schubert and Mozart on Friday, November 13 at 8 p.m. at St.
Gustav Mahler in the age of iTunes
The "cover" photograph for the DG Concerts release of the performance of Mahler's first symphony by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel Having been interested enough in Gustavo Dudamel's debut as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic to write about both its broadcast on Public Television and the Deutsche ...
The public face of American orchestral music changed radically this autumn. For the first time, conductors from ethnic minorities have taken the helm at two of the country's most important ensembles.
For Dudamel, it's all about the music
Gustavo Dudamel is the conductor and music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Gustavo Dudamel and his friends are in complete harmony
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Published on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009 4:42PM EDT T in Toronto on Monday The Glenn Gould Foundation really hit the jackpot when it picked Jose Antonio Abreu as the latest winner of the $50,000 Glenn Gould Prize.
PSO gives concert an All American flavor
Maestro Manfred Honeck is crafting the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra into a graceful ensemble capable of the subtlest of Viennese nuances.
The New World on the Two Coasts
WHEN a music director takes the helm of a major American orchestra, the inaugural concert should be not just a musical celebration but a statement of artistic mission.
Two Dudamels, solid and then L.A. glitzy
Be glad that you're not Gustavo Dudamel this week. The new music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic - and easily the world's hottest young conductor - is the subject of PBS's Great Performances in a presentation that, when not devoted to actual music-making, is so embarrassing or full of hyperbole that a lesser being would hide in a locked ...
Great Performances "Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic: The Inaugural Concert"
In fall 2009, music sensation Gustavo Dudamel will become the new music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Music is in the air at PBS. Take your front row seats to the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a new young superstar assumes the conductor's baton.
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