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    Sep 18, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  1. Monster Mash: Sarah Palin inspires new opera; LACMA names curator; a DVD of Liza at the Palace

    Culture Monster
    -- You betcha: Sarah Palin, the former vice presidential candidate and erstwhile governor of Alaska, has inspired a new operatic work titled "Say It Ain't So, Joe." -- Old masterpiece: A Rembrandt portrait is expected to fetch $29.7 million to......
    2. Sep 21, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Leon Kirchner dies at 90; Pulitzer-winning composer

    Leon Kirchner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of expressive, rigorous, atonal yet romantic music, died Thursday of congestive heart failure at his home in New York. He was 90.
    Leon Kirchner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of expressive, rigorous, atonal yet romantic music, died Thursday of congestive heart failure at his home in New York. He was 90. A pianist and conductor as well as a composer, Kirchner stood somewhat...

    Tags: Opera (genre), Journalism, Arnold Schoenberg, Ernest Bloch, Roger Sessions

    3. Aug 30, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Alan Gilbert readies for New York Philharmonic debut

    Life, even for rising orchestra conductors, can be unfair. Consider one response to Alan Gilbert, new music director of the New York Philharmonic, after he leads Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony in a packed college auditorium in Queens to loud applause. In the intermission crowd, Linda Bergelson looks up and says: "We live half the year in San Diego, and Alan Gilbert just doesn't have that Dudamel spark."
    Life, even for rising orchestra conductors, can be unfair. Consider one response to Alan Gilbert, new music director of the New York Philharmonic, after he leads Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony in a packed college auditorium in Queens to loud applause. In the...

    Tags: Opera (genre), Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Olivier Messiaen, Family, San Diego (San Diego, California)

    4. Feb 8, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Mills College, a school without walls

    For the last seven decades, Mills College, which will celebrate the renovation of its gorgeous Spanish-style concert hall with a gala concert Feb. 21, has provided a haven for a remarkable number of cutting-edge composers. No matter how academically unsuitable some might have seemed, they have flocked to its manicured sylvan campus tucked behind the intersection of two ugly freeways in a nondescript section of the Oakland foothills. And whether or not anyone has noticed, they have broken new ground.
    Music Critic
    For the last seven decades, Mills College, which will celebrate the renovation of its gorgeous Spanish-style concert hall with a gala concert Feb. 21, has provided a haven for a remarkable number of cutting-edge composers. No matter how academically...

    Tags: Opera (genre), California, England, Festive Events, James Brown

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