Tag: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Mx. Justin Vivian Bond Is Over the Rainbow
"Happiness is a skill that you develop and also something that you can't be all the time."
Composer Nina Shekhar Offers You Her Glitter Monster
"There's no rule that says you can't do this. This tradition has evolved over time because of that."
Marc-André Hamelin: A Franck Conversation About His Music
"A recital is really a one-to-one act of communication. And offering, an act of sharing with the audience."
Brian Lauritzen Makes Classical Music Easy
"Who I am in the world of classical music is someone who says you may think that it's a difficult entry point, but here's how it's easy. "
Marc Lowenstein Lives in This Present Time
"It's only by letting go and having a tremendous amount of throughput, I think, that you can really find the meaning in the moments."
Gabriel Kahane Gets Personal with “Heirloom”
"I think if composers are being honest, whenever we assign a program to abstract instrumental music, we're always doing a little bit of myth-making."
Gabriel Kahane Gets Political
"Trying to open people's hearts feels more politically useful than trying to convince people of something."
Composer Juan Pablo Contreras Unmasked
"I wanted people to ask themselves what is my personal identity? What kind of mask have I designed for myself? "
Composer Shelley Washington Explores Duality
"So I hope this piece doesn't give permission, but acceptance, to people. Hopefully see themselves and feel seen."
Composer Ellen Reid: Life Post-Pulitzer and Post-Pandemic
"Sitting with the unknown brought up some new things I'm interested in and things that I'm not interested anymore in in a very clear way that it might have just taken a lot more time to find had we not had that experience."