In today’s Orange County Register online, I review Zubin Mehta’s 50th anniversary concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The concert repeats (today, in progress), Saturday and Sunday.
Click here to read my review or pick up a copy of tomorrow’s newspaper.
photo: Craig T. Mathew/Mathew Imaging
The Laguna Beach Music Festival announces its roster and schedule.
In today’s Orange County Register online, I review cellist Alisa Weilerstein and conductor Alexander Shelley in performances of music by Handel, Debussy and Dvorak with the Pacific Symphony.
Click here to read my review or pick up a copy of tomorrow’s newspaper.
The concert is repeated today and tomorrow.
In today’s Orange County Register online, I review Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in performances of music of Lutoslawski and Beethoven.
Click here to read my review, or pick up a copy of Monday’s newspaper.
Photo: Clive Barda
Just because it’s delightful and you’ve probably never heard it.
Earlier this week I interviewed cellist Alisa Weilerstein, a MacAurthur Foundation “genius” who performs with the Pacific Symphony in three concerts, Dec. 6-8.
Click here to read my interview
For you kids out there, here’s a Weilerstein quote on practicing that didn’t make it into the interview:
“Of course like any kid I had many days when I didn’t feel like practicing. But what (my parents) told me was, ‘Well, this is what you want to do, you’re only hurting yourself if you don’t practice.’ In a way I made it easy for them because I was absolutely sure from the very beginning that I wanted to be a musician. I never wavered from that, not even in my teenage years at all, I was completely sure. So I knew deep down that even on days that I didn’t want to practice that I really was only hurting myself.”
In the video above, Weilerstein rehearses Elliott Carter’s Cello Concerto with the late composer himself.
In today’s Orange County Register online, I review yesterday’s performance of “Madama Butterfly” by Los Angeles Opera.
Click here to read my review, or pick up a copy of tomorrow’s newspaper.
A Register columnist gives thanks for our paper’s current prospects. Oddly perhaps, yours truly serves as an emblem for what went wrong, though it certainly did feel as if I was living in one of the upper circles of Hell.
Click here to read the column.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Onwards and upwards.
Photo: Manzanar, Ansel Adams, Library of Congress.
In today’s Orange County Register online, I review John Eliot Gardiner, the ORR and Monterverdi Choir in performances of Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” and Ninth Symphony.
Click here to read my review, or pick up a copy of tomorrow’s newspaper.
Lisa Hirsch points out this review in the Sacramento Press and rightly calls it a “travesty.”
You have to read it to believe it.
The correction at the end will give you some idea of how completely out of his element the writer was:
“Editor’s Note: The second and fifteenth paragraphs of this article have been amended. Please note that the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra is not affiliated with Western Health Advantage. Western Health Advantage only sponsored this particular event. ”
But there are plenty of blunders to go around. I feel sorry for the writer — whether he sought to review the concert or was assigned; he had no business being there.
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