With a backdrop showcasing the Hollywood Hills and a history of performances by musical legends, the Hollywood Bowl is without a doubt a magical place. This week (August 23, 2023), the enchanted outdoor amphitheater added another legendary performance to its vast
If you love the Hollywood Bowl, as I do, it has been offering some incredible shows this summer (2023). Plus the Hollywood Bowl Jazz Series is attracting jazz lovers everywhere. LA Phil’s Jazz Plus series is curated by Herbie Hancock and
The U.S. premiere of the Dutch National Ballet’s Frida concluded the 20th dance season of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center. Frida was conceived and choreographed by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa who magnificently realized her vision to capture, as she
This is a 2 writer review - Richard Bilow reviewed Saturday. Keith Block reviewed Sunday. Intro is by Keith Block. What use to be the Playboy Jazz Festival is now the Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival. The first Playboy Jazz Festival took
LA Opera’s Music Director James Conlon conducted a vibrant and emotionally charged performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello based on William Shakespeare’s play Othello at the Music Center. Conlon explained in a pre-performance talk that Verdi had evolved away from the traditional
The LA Phil New Music Group conducted by Brad Lubman at Disney Hall presented an exceptionally enjoyable evening of the meditative and entrancing music of Steve Reich, which is distinguished by his minimalist compositions of intricate repetitive patterns and harmonic gradual
The world acclaimed classical Los Angeles Ballet presented a program of three iconic works by master choreographer Christopher Wheeldon at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica. As each of the works had an abstract quality without explicit storylines, the audience was
Luminario Ballet Artistic Director Judith FLEX Helle’s program of “Heroes, Sheroes, and Eros” took us on a trip into, what she calls, the “Weird” visions of her choreography and that of four other talented choreographer/performers. The program deftly incorporated an exquisitely
The LA Phil conducted by Gustavo Dudamel presented the “Tristan Project”, based on Richard Wagner’s opera “Tristan and Isolde,” in three separate 80-minute concert performances at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Photo courtesy of Mathew Imaging/LA Phil The “Tristan
Tis the season for “The Nutcracker” and it was most wonderfully presented by the LA Phil at the elegant and acoustically magnificent Disney Concert Hall. Gustavo Dudamel, the world renowned LA Phil Music and Artistic Director, masterfully conducted a rousing rendition
