Tag: Los Angeles Philharmonic
Composer Ted Hearne Seeks to Understand His Place
"I am really interested in living in a way that helps other people be better. But I have to help myself be better. Composing is just the whole apparatus for that."
J’Nai Bridges Enters Peter & Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s World
"I've experienced love. I've experienced loss. And I do have a subtext for every piece. But I always ask myself who is J'Nai in this?"
Deaf West Theatre’s DJ Kurs Is Rehearsing Opera
"I always assumed that opera was a world in a space that I shouldn't go into, which I shouldn't even bother."
Composer Julia Adolphe Writes the Colors of the Violin
"Working on it helped me process my unconscious. But I don't want them to be distracted by it, by me. I want my music to be a vehicle for them to access their own unconscious."
Conductor Simone Young Comes Into Her Own
"To be performing such an extraordinary range of music is both a great joy and it's a challenge, but most of all it's a tremendous privilege."
Vijay Gupta Reinvents Himself Better
"I feel that every day I pick up the instrument is an opportunity to reinvent myself better, better in the image of the instrument, which will always be better than me, better in the image of the composer's living or recently dead or long dead, who are often also humbling figures in in one's psyche."
Conductor Ruth Reinhardt Let’s the Music Do the Talking
"I am glad to see increasing attention being paid to inclusiveness in the classical music scene and elsewhere."
Ledisi On Nina Simone: More in Common Than She Thought
"I wanted to a long sentence just to say I love you and I hear you and I’m here. And thank you."
Composer Ricardo Mollá Gives the Trombone Some Love
"At some point you have to organize elements in a way that you create beauty at the end. I would say the biggest challenge is to be aware when you have to delete part of the music you like."