Tag: Los Angeles Philharmonic
Composer Felipe Lara Finds His Next Plateau
"No one can play bass and sing like esperanza. Who can play all those flutes like Clare? The minute that they stop playing the piece it's gone."
A Little Touch of Schmilsson In My Past
It wasn't just his tenor voice, but there was something bordering on ethereal about his singing. Perhaps it was his 3-1/2 octave range that first grabbed me.
John Adams Revisits an Old Friend
"In some ways it's the most personal piece of mine because of that resonance with the land and with the history."
Best of 2022
Our favorite performances including Cabaret, Classical, Musicals, Operas and Plays
Conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson: A War of Attrition
"The inherent understanding of genius, stifled genius, unrecognized genius, not given the support and the nourishment that it deserves and having to find its own way. I understand that completely."
Michelle Cann Found Her Soul Sister…
"Florence Price was an inspiration to me because she wrote what was part of her and inside of her. Her music is her soul."
Soprano Julia Bullock Wants to Rock Your Soul
"I made a lot of peace with who I am and how I also am expanding in the various roles that I can take on and feel comfortable in."
My Time with John Williams
"Our hands are occasionally guided in some of the things that we do...you want to use the word divine guidance behind it." - John Williams
LA Phil’s Joanne Pearce Martin Gets in Synch with Amadeus
"You have to match it a lot with great precision in some places because in this film, quite a few times, the video will cut to Mozart's hands at a piano."
This Is The Golden Age of Terence Blanchard
"It goes back to that whole thing of find a balance between all of those things, you know, allowing yourself to be in the moment and allowing yourself to be free to respond to things that you may not have thought of."