Monday, May 4, 2026
John Williams cut the ribbon on a new state-of-the-art performing arts center named for him at his alma mater, North Hollywood High School, where he honed his craft in the 1940s.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 25, 2025
Williams, best known for his film work, has a parallel career in classical music. His concerto, haunted by the ghosts of jazz past, is premiering at Tanglewood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 3, 2022
Tamar-kali, who composed the music for Mudbound and Shirley, has a new project: an opera that you can watch online.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 18, 2021
Deep in the heart of Texas, the Kronos Quartet reflects on race relations and social unrest with At War with Ourselves " 400 Years of You, by composer Michael Abels and poet Nikky Finney.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 19, 2021
He co-wrote hit stage musicals, worked on James Bond scores including "Goldfinger" and composed music for the Hollywood film "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Recovered from a career-threatening injury, MiloÅ¡ Karadaglic has his sights set on two goals: finding the next great classical guitar concerto, and erasing the taboo of injuries among mus…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 18, 2019
This isn't "High School Musical." No, the members of this young company " from 7-year-old moppets all the way up to assured 18-year-olds " say things like: "I think a lot of people can agree…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Terence Blanchard received his first Oscar nomination for the BlacKkKlansman score. The 56-year-old jazz trumpeter from New Orleans has been Spike Lee's right-hand composer since Jungle Feve…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2018
"There's a little Bowie in all of us," says choreographer Dwight Rhoden, whose company will translate nine Bowie songs into contemporary dance at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Gender fluidi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2018
For Mahler's "Song of the Earth," the L.A. Phil is collaborating with the Chilean avante-garde theater company Teatrocinema, whose visual creations lend a new dimension to the music.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 27, 2018
"The New Colossus," the Actors' Gang production centered on the stories of immigrants coming to America, has been extended through May 12. Directed and co-written by Tim Robbins, the company…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 8, 2018
A play in which the cast acts out the real immigration stories of family and friends would seem to have "Trump" written all over it, but "The New Colossus" " the latest from the Actors' Gang…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 26, 2017
If you were among the 175 million people who downloaded "Serial," the true-crime podcast phenomenon that went on to win a Peabody Award, the plinking piano chords in its theme song are proba…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 10, 2017
Alex Lacamoire has hearing loss. But the Tony-winning music director of "Hamilton" wants you to know, he's no Beethoven. He's heard that you can see teeth marks on the wood inside Beethoven'…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 23, 2017
The Alien films never produced a musical theme that infiltrated pop culture the way their spacefaring peers Star Wars or Star Trek did, but the scores did make a mark. Jerry Goldsmith's floa…
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2017
The crowd swelled inside the ornate Million Dollar Theatre in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday night for a screening of "Moonlight" with live musical accompaniment, fresh off the film's Go…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2016
Alberto Arvelo is used to hiring composers to set music to his films. The Venezuelan director's most recent feature, "Libertador," employed none other than Gustavo Dudamel " in his debut fil…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:45PM[SHARE]Friday, July 29, 2016
Steve Martin isn't just a "comedian." His restless mind has led him into becoming a stand-up giant, a movie star, a screenwriter, a producer, a novelist, a songwriter, a banjoist, an art cur…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 2, 2016
Imagine if you will: Arts supporters, dressed to the nines, gathered for a benefit in a grand old movie palace, listening to a chamber orchestra " and watching Disney cartoons. Last year, th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Jess Thom has every reason to hate the theater. Thom has Tourette's syndrome, and her tics " randomly spoken words and muscle spasms " had kept her away from the hushed performance halls in …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2016
When Hamid Rahmanian says, "I'm kind of like a bulldozer," the artist means the tenacious way he enters any new project " long work hours, "begging" for funding, camping in rehearsal spaces.…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:27AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 7, 2016
As Thor Steingraber assesses the decision to build a 1,700-seat performing arts venue in Northridge, a word comes to mind: courageous. Filling all of those seats hasn't always been easy sinc…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45AM[SHARE]It's fitting that Derek DelGaudio's new show began as an empty pair of brackets in the Geffen Playhouse's season preview catalog. The production, since christened "In & of Itself," is all ab…
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