Composer Igor Stravinsky’s landmark work The Rite of Spring, though commonly performed in concert halls, was written as a ballet. Last year this composition, considered one of the most groundbreaking works of the 20th century, celebrated its hundredth anniversary....
She performs at VPAC on Friday, October 3rd
“I never thought of myself being able to make a living by dying,” says Philip Glass. 50 years after 1964’s “Brass Sextet,” the prolific 77-year-old composer finds that he has lived long enough to see his work embraced around...
There’s something about the decades well before his birth that keep hovering over Cheyenne Jackson. He first came to fame in All Shook Up, a musical using Elvis Presley’s songs. He later appeared in a revival of Finian’s Rainbow,...
“It’s like a marriage and I don’t want that to ever end.”
Some pieces of music become so ingrained in our psyches that we don’t consider new interpretations or we overlook what made it so great in the first place. Jeffrey Kahane, music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, is...
Not many singers who have a hit song at the age of sixteen are still performing at the age of 68. Even fewer still could suffer the incredible highs and lows that Bettye LaVette has experienced and still be,...
Invisible Cities isn’t your parents’ opera. There’s no orchestra pit. There’s no stage. There’s no front row. Instead, the production, which is based on an Italo Calvino novel about an imagined conversation between emperor Kublai Khan and explorer Marco...
“I have seen in the last 30 years a tremendous change happening in Los Angeles.”
“We decided that half of this season would be looking back at where we’ve been. The second half would be pointing the way forward with new works and commissions.”