Mark Swed
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Dudamel's return and 15 other classical music, dance shows to catch this fall in SoCal (opens the original)
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As fall draws near, we await, with timorous breath, the arrival of a Godzilla El Niño and touch-and-go midterm elections. We fret over emerging pathogens with pandemic ambitions and anything AI. Wars won’t go away. Prices rise as surely as the sun goes up each morning. Yet a prospect of a new season remains ever an agent of renewal, a reliable cause for rejoice. More so than many classical music falls, this year’s is characterized by comings and goings, reminders that nature turns, turns, turns.
Review: Following Dudamel at the Bowl, Anna Handler has the toughest assignment of the summer (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred The Hollywood Bowl felt a little forlorn Tuesday night after four long evenings of boisterous 18,000-strong crowds showing L.A.’s many-splendored love for Gustavo Dudamel. He was off to New York or almost — Dudamel did quietly fit in a conversation at the Grammy Museum on Tuesday with Anthony Hopkins about the actor’s new dreamy album, “Life Is
Gustavo says goodbye with four-night Hollywood Bowl extravaganza (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred On Sunday, Oct. 3, 2009, at 2 p.m., an atmospheric electricity pervaded the Hollywood Bowl when Johnny Polanco came on stage. The salsa star led what has now come to be held as a legendary day-long concert, which included Cuban and mariachi musicians, a large gospel choir, Flea, Herbie Hancock and Taj Mahal. None were the main attraction. The Bo
Review: The newly homeless National Symphony finds shelter at the Hollywood Bowl (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred A wonderful Oval Office perk is what Thomas Jefferson dubbed “The President’s Own.” At the president’s beck and call is the United States Marine Band, created by an act of Congress in 1798. But for an acquisitive current occupant of the White House, the oldest continuously active musical organization hasn’t seemed enough. In his appropriating th
How letting Dudamel be Dudamel led to unpredictable, wonderful L.A. music (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred In early April 2007, I was invited to a surreptitious dinner with the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s music director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the orchestra’s president, Deborah Borda. We gathered in Salonen’s kitchen and over take-out sushi discussed how in three days, Easter Sunday, the Los Angeles Times would be the first to tell the world that Salone
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