Promising great things in the First Take at the Hammer are Mohammed Fairouz's 'Pierrot' and Pauline Oliveros' 'The Nubian Word for Flower.'Opera, in our parts, has embarked upon an exceptional period of expansion. Up and down the California coast, the staging of new and recent work possibly outnumbers old.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM on June 3, 2013