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 04:18PMThursday, 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 08:03PMTuesday, 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 02:48PMWednesday, May 5, 2021
Recovered from a career-threatening injury, Miloš Karadaglic has his sights set on two goals: finding the next great classical guitar concerto, and erasing the taboo of injuries among music…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:33AMSaturday, 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 peop…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:05AMWednesday, 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 06:15PMThursday, 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 11:00AMWednesday, 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 08:00AMTuesday, 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 c…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:15PMThursday, 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 Ac…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMSaturday, 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 p…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMThursday, 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 Be…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMTuesday, 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 fl…
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:16PMWednesday, 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’…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:25PMThursday, 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 d…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:45PMFriday, 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 a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:12PMThursday, 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, …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:42PMWednesday, 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 hal…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:07AMWednesday, 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 rehea…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:27AMSaturday, 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 si…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45AMIt'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…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45AM 
