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Jazz Review: Keith Jarrett At Walt Disney Concert Hall

Debra Levine | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Keith Jarrett Disney Hall, Keith Jarrett, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Harold Arlen, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Disney Hall, Home News
Debra Levine

Keith Jarrett, the 66 year-old jazz legend, opened his solo concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall Tuesday night by plucking on his Steinway's strings, avant-garde style.

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Disney Hall Gets A Makeover

Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Photography, Video, Pc Colour Lab, Disney, Los Angeles, Disney Hall, German Photographer, Gabor Ekecs, Arts News

As if the futuristic architecture of Frank Gehry's Disney Hall wasn't trippy enough, Gabor Ekecs has created disorienting photographs of the iconic st...

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Celebrate a Fantastic Klezmatic Hanukkah

Tom Teicholz | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Klezmer, Chava Allberstein, Joshua Nelson, Chanukkah, Town Hall, Lorin Sklamberg, The Grammys, Jewish Music, Woody Guthrie, Yiddish Music, Hanukkah, Frank London, Itzhak Pearlman, Disney Hall, Yiddish, Klezmatics, Yivo, Los Angeles News
Tom Teicholz

On Dec. 19, as part of their 25th anniversary tour, the Klezmatics will perform at Walt Disney Concert Hall for a Chanukah concert featuring both their well-known and new repertoire.

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The Car Plays: Real Drive-In Theater in Downtown LA?

Wyatt Closs | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Redcat, Driving, Automobiles, Calarts, Off-Off-Broadway, Disney Hall, Los Angeles, Theater, Cars, Mulholland Drive, Plays, T Lynn Mikeska, Hipsters, Moving Arts, Jenn Swirtz, Silver Lake, Hollywood Hills Real Estate, RADAR LA, Disney, Hollywood, Los Angeles News
Wyatt Closs

Couldn't resist the pun in that headline, but in this case the stage is a car, so it works. In fact, the stage is 15 cars. Thats the number that sit i...

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Fairs, Fairs on the Wall, Which Is Prettiest of Them All?

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scofidio + Renfro, Los Angeles Art Show, Elizabeth Diller, Diller, Npr, Photo l.A., Moca, Kcrw, Broad Museum, Edward Goldman, Artists, Art, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Disney Hall, Art Talk, Eli Broad, Arts News
Edward Goldman

The month of January is crowded in L.A., with art fairs that bring art dealers eager to spread before you thousands of paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos -- you name it.

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Why I Love The Broad Even if I Don't Understand It

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freeway, Upper East Side, Moca, LA Culture, Edye Broad, Diller Scofidio, Tucson, Architecture, Los Angeles, Civility, Metro, Paris, The Broad, 30/10 Initiative, Grand Avenue, Nicolai Ouroussoff, Public Transportation, New York Times, Disney Hall, Eli Broad, Los Angeles News
Joel Epstein

As well as he writes when he is focused on architecture, Nicolai Ouroussoff's review of Broad the museum and Broad the patron isn't worth the paper and pixels it is written on.

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Top 10 Classical Music Moments 2001-2010

Laurence Vittes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mozart, Deborah Borda, Exposure 2010S, Ernest Fleischmann, LA Culture, Audiophile, Harbeth, Deborah Rutter, Cryogenics, Disney Hall, Alan Rich, Rega Saturn, Gustavo Dudamel, Don Rosenberg, Arts News
Laurence Vittes

1. The Opening of Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2003 It was a hall that reflected in its billowing waves and lavish interior all that classical music H...

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Clap Between Movements: Plus Where The Dude's At For New Year's

Laurence Vittes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haydn, Berlin Philharmonic, Robert Levin, Gustavo, New Year's Even Concerts, Disney Hall, Mozart, Cherubini, Mcgegan, Arts News
Laurence Vittes

Dec. 16-19 LA Phil, Disney Hall Nicholas McGegan conducts Cherubini, Mozart and Haydn Robert Levin, piano • Cherubini: Anacreon Overture by th...

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Insider: What It's Like To Play For Gustavo

Dana Hansen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Classical Music, Juilliard School, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hollywood Bowl, Musicians, Viola, Gustavo Dudamel, Disney Hall, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Arts News
Dana Hansen

Playing for Gustavo Dudamel requires a ton of energy. Whether you're in a rehearsal or a concert, he asks for every ounce of musicianship you have in you, at all times. His energy seems boundless.

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Stretching a Buck

Bill Lasarow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interact Theatre Company, San Pedro City Ballet, $1 Per Year, L.A. Live, Grand Avenue, Non-Profits, Arts Organizations, Eagle Rock Art Center, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Disney Hall, Los Angeles, Arts Funding, Moca, Eli Broad, Sparc, Arts News
Bill Lasarow

Public budget debates continue to play out as government enters its new fiscal year on July 1st. Fears continue to mount that important community organizations may be dismantled.

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Dance Review: Merce Cunningham's "Roaratorio"

Debra Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Disney Hall, Los Angeles, Merce Cunningham, Roaratorio. Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Montpellier Dance Festival, Festival International Montpellier Danse, Arts News
Debra Levine

"It was unutterably moving to watch," said long time company archivist David Vaughan of the historic reconstruction of "Roaratorio" (1983) that graced...

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A Delayed Debut: Weilerstein Reunites With Dudamel at Disney Hall

Donna Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alisa Weilerstein, Tchaikovsky Sixth Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Disney Hall, Gustavo Dudamel, Dvorak Cello Concerto, Los Angeles News
Donna Perlmutter

The profoundly gifted cellist Alisa Weilerstein kept her downtown date with Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic and let us in on a big secret.

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Will Eli Broad Join Jeffrey Deitch and MOCA on Grand Avenue?

Brady Westwater | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lacma, Jeffrey Deitch, Grand Avenue, Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Culver City, Disney Hall, Moca, Eli Broad, Contemporary Art, Los Angeles News
Brady Westwater

After a cross-town game of musical chairs, the Broad Art collection may finally have the one site that makes the most sense, south of Disney Hall and across Grand Avenue from MOCA.

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Maazel to the Podium -- Still Collecting Orchestras

Donna Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sibelius, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Disney Hall, Lorin Maazel, Nancy Gustafson, Strauss, Los Angeles News
Donna Perlmutter

Lorin Maazel strode vigorously across stage to the Disney Hall podium, telegraphing to the audience that this was no crochety 79-year-old maestro, but a commanding presence still.

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The Best And Worst Architecture Of The '00s

The Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frank Gehry, Best Architecture, Architecture, Green Building, Best Architecture 2000s, Disney Hall, Media, Frank Gehry Disney Hall, Home News

Architecture is symbiotically linked to the flow of money, and so it was a topsy-turvy decade, beginning in exuberance, and ending with talk that perh...

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A Good Hair Day for the Los Angeles Opera

Alexandra McNally | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gioachino Rossini, Figaro, Barber of Seville, Disney Hall, Los Angeles Opera, Opera, Patina, Los Angeles News
Alexandra McNally

For some people, three hours watching zaftig women and baritone men in tights belt out Italian (or even German) lyrics is like hanging out in Dante's seventh circle of hell. But not me.

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Dudamel Begins New Era at L.A. Philharmonic

Donna Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Van Cliburn, Philharmonic, Mahler, Lenny Bernstein, 60 Minutes, Disney Hall, Gustavo Dudamel, City Noir, Entertainment News
Donna Perlmutter

On Thursday, Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's new podium chief, bedazzled an elite crowd, sold to the walls and thronged with celebrities.

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Culture Zohn: Alt Oscar: The Other Gold in Los Angeles

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LA Philharmonic, Royce Hall, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Lacma, Norton Simon Museum, Hammer Museum, Getty, LA Opera, Broad Stage, Disney Hall, Moca, Redcat, Entertainment News
Patricia Zohn

2009-02-20-zpull.jpg We also have actual places to go and things to see that will make your heart go pitter-patter and even echo this year's Best Picture nominees.

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