June 29, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
June 17 World Financial Center Bang on a Can Marathon Twelve hours of music. I will only blather on about my favorites in each of the seven sections divided up by hours. 12 pm As luck had it, they opened …
June 28, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
June 16, 2012 St. Mark’s Church James Moore Incubator Arts Project This night James performed all 35 etudes of John Zorn’s Book of Heads. Quite a feat. The program notes told us that these “were written in 1978 for Eugene …
June 28, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
June 15, 2012 Issue Project Room …
June 28, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
June 14, 2012 Issue Project Room Philip Glass: Music with Friends This was the second of three nights and I am so pleased to be there for the final two. I hadn’t yet been to the new Issue Project and …
June 27, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
June 7 - 10, 2012 Ojai Music Festival Part of what makes Ojai perfect for me is the plethora of symposiums and pre-concert lectures by very smart people, and this perfect Ojai Festival began with a talk by Ara Guzelimian, …
June 27, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
Ojai Talk 1 pm - 4:30 pm Music and Place - Norwegian Mood Ara Guzelimian led the discussion with Leif Ove Andsnes, Ojai 2012 Music Director, about how a sense of place is important in creating community and then from …
June 27, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
June 9, 2012 10:00 am Pre-concert talk with Hailey and two members of the Norwegian Chamber Ensemble. They were funny and smart and talked about their dedication to the ensemble as well as how German and Norwegian Romaticism connect. Concerts …
June 27, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
June 10, 2012 8:30 am Breakfast at Ojai Valley Inn for we who have signed up for the 2013 Ojai Festival. Jeremy Denk, brilliant pianist was interviewed by Fred Childs of Performance Today. Jeremy will be the Music Director of …
June 10, 2012 | Posted in Fresh Sound
June 5, 2012 Fresh Sound series @ Space 4 Art Another special night. David Shively from New York was here to perform some glorious music and he succeeded. The first piece was one of my all time favorites that I …
June 6, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
May 26, 2012 Long Beach Opera Parts of this were great - the music, for instance. Then some of the other parts were, as my fellow attendee said, Community Theater-like. However, kudos to the Long Beach Opera for presenting contemporary …