She gave an 11-minute address about the arts as a prelude to performances by guests Sara Bareilles, Yo-Yo Ma and Trisha Yearwood.
Tag: 09.26.09
Pilgrimage To A Confucian Mecca
“As a Chinese-American growing up in California, my introduction to Confucius was mostly through media caricatures and kitschy sayings embedded in fortune cookies. My father, on the other hand, was raised in Taiwan, where locals revered Confucius as a messiah-like figure. On our trip to Qufu, I hoped to gain a better understanding of the man who had loomed so large in my father’s mind.”
Just Like The Old Met, L.A. Opera Has To Stash Some Sets Outdoors
Thanks to a shortage of storage space at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, “the technical crews [have] to store sets and other movable equipment on the veranda facing 1st Street. … Some of them are protected from the elements by tarps; some are not.” Thank goodness for L.A. weather.
Bad Reviews For Matthew Modine Saves The Alpacas Are A Badge Of Honor
The Geffen Playhouse has collected lines from the many harsh notices the satire has received and put them all in a big display ad in the Sunday L.A. Times.
Alicia de Larrocha, Spain’s Great Pianist, Dies At 86
She “cultivated a poetic interpretive style in which gracefulness was prized over technical flashiness or grand, temperamental gestures.” She was renowned for her Mozart, and she nearly single-handedly brought the keyboard music of her compatriots de Falla, Granados, Albéniz and Turina into the mainstream repertoire.
At Least The Philadelphia Orchestra Still Sounds Good
They need a CEO; they need a music director; they need more ticket buyers; they need $15 million ASAP. But James Oestreich agrees with the orchestra’s temporary chief exec that “the orchestra is still making great music.”
Dallas Arts District Offers ‘An Architectural Film Strip’
The new Wyly Theatre is “edgy and unpredictable” with an “industrial esthetic everywhere”; the Winspear Opera House across the way is modern formal, “an ellipse inscribed in a square, a red Christmas ornament, a clear glass box.” The latter’s “red reflective-glass panels … present a visual timeline” of a century’s worth of architecture.