Dudamel Launches His Final Season. Explore the wonders and perils of nature with Strauss’ mountainous tone poem and an Ellen Reid world premiere. Thurs, Sept 25 at 8pmFri, Sept 26Continue readingLAPhil: Reid and Strauss
LAMC: before and after nature
Grammy Award®-winner, Oscar®-nominee, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang’s before and after nature is a meditation on the natural world, both before human existence and after humans are gone. before and afterContinue readingLAMC: before and after nature
Beloved
The album is out now! It was a great couple of days recording this wonderful music with Anne Akiko Meyers, Billy Childs, Lyris Quartet, and my LA Master Chorale pals,Continue readingBeloved
Songs & Stories:Mary Ellen Callahan
California-born soprano Mary Ellen Callahan sings a collection of songs that includes her favorites, as well as a few she learned to love. She’ll talk about her international career asContinue readingSongs & Stories:Mary Ellen Callahan
LAMC: Rufus Wainwright’s Dream Requiem
“The Chorale presents the highly anticipated U.S. premiere of Rufus Wainwright’s Dream Requiem with Jane Fonda as the narrator. Dream Requiem merges two long standing creative visions — Wainwright’s fascination with Byron’s poem Darkness, depictingContinue readingLAMC: Rufus Wainwright’s Dream Requiem
Songs & Stories – next up!
I’m very much looking forward to my next Songs & Stories guest, Sidney Chen. He’ll be doing some singing, but also playing his DIY hand-crank music box. It’s going toContinue readingSongs & Stories – next up!
Oscars 97, Jahaaṅ, Carmina
OSCARS 97I’m not usually one for awards shows… unless I’m singing in it! What an honor and a rush it was to perform with some of my LA Master ChoraleContinue readingOscars 97, Jahaaṅ, Carmina
Lifting Our Voices, Songs & Stories, and Grammy wins!
I’m not going to point out how crazy the news has been, locally, nationally, and internationally. Instead, I’ll share some great musical moments that have happened so far this year,Continue readingLifting Our Voices, Songs & Stories, and Grammy wins!
LAMC: David Lang, before and after nature
World Premiere of David Lang’s before and after nature, performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars and LA Master Chorale, video and projections by Tal Rosner. Commissioned by Stanford Live, before and after nature is a meditation on the natural world, both before human existence and after humans are gone. … Continue readingLAMC: David Lang, before and after nature
LAPhil: A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Dudamel
Walt Disney Concert Hall transforms into Shakespeare’s magical forest when Gustavo Dudamel leads the orchestra in Mendelssohn’s whimsical incidental music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with sopranos and altos of theContinue readingLAPhil: A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Dudamel
