"I think you can develop a personal practice that celebrates one's own imagination and I think that's why I write music."
Music Center Plaza
August 31st
August 31st
Segerstrom Center for the Arts - Julianne and George Argyros Plaza
August 30th
August 30th
Hollywood Bowl
August 30th - September 1st
August 30th - September 1st
Hollywood Bowl
August 27th and August 29th
August 27th and August 29th
"Since I've been singing Bobby Troup the adjectives most people use now are cool and swinging. I find it hilarious. I was the least cool guy in high school. It's nice his music has leant me a cloak of coolness."
"These women were so prominent in their time, why does what remains with us now are the great male composers like Irving Berlin and George Gershwin? Because it hasn't been told like it should be."
"Naturally whatever is occurring in the world, and we are living in difficult times today, it's going to influence each of us in different ways depending on how we look at the world."
Huntington Library
August 24th
August 24th
"I think Prokofiev might be a bit like Disney. He's that level of propagandist. He's not stepping outside the rails, but he's not a full-on collaborator."