ArtsAlive Magazine, 8am and 5pm Saturdays2008 ArchiveArtsAlive Magazine 01/05/08 - Conductor David Robertson with help from the LA Phil discusses his urban symposium; Picasso's Pets Visit the Palm Springs Art Museum; The Musical Addiction of Pianist Wu Han ArtsAlive Magazine 01/12/08 - A chat with Will Self, novelist and walking explorer of cities; bending the "Classical music" genre with the Nucleus Ensemble; Extra insight into the R. B. Kitaj exhibit at the Skirball ArtsAlive Magazine 01/19/08 - David Hockney, revisits the famous production of LA Opera's Tristan und Isolde, plus a chat with the titular actor & actress; Alan Chapman interviews up and coming composer Jennifer Higdon; Plus some background information about the Turtle Island String Quartet ArtsAlive Magazine 01/26/08 - John Sayles shuns the normal Hollywood system yet again with Honeydripper; Robert Zimmerman speaks about becoming Bob Dylan and bringing poetry to pop music; Insight into this years Sundance Festival with the LA Times' Kenneth Turan ArtsAlive Magazine 02/02/08 - The varied conducting positions and rehearsal tools of Itzhak Perlman; The trebly involved Nadine Labaki speaks about her film, 'Caramel' set in modern day Lebanon; A chat with rising stage star Jeannette Bayardelle, who stars as Celie in the Ahmanson's production of The Color Purple ArtsAlive Magazine 02/09/08 - The ambitious program from LACO of all of Mozarts 23 Piano Concertos with Jeffrey Kahane; The second annual Classical Grammy Grabbag with Brian Lauritzen; A chat with the Fountain Theater's Stephen Sachs about Fugard's Victory ArtsAlive Magazine 02/16/08 - Diving into Ricky Ian Gordan's Orpheus and Euridice ; An inside look at the LA Opera's Recovered Voices, opening this weekend; Gene Parrish brings us news from the Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities and a world premiere from English playwright, Ray Cooney. ArtsAlive Magazine 02/23/08 - Oscar Special: Nominee Tom Wilkinson on the role of the Actor as part of the whole; Screenwriter Christopher Soles on adapting Atonement; Critic Kenneth Turran on how The Counterfeiters is a great film, Foreign Language or not! ; Plus, Part One of exclusive interview with the stage vixen (at any age) Elaine Stritch ArtsAlive Magazine 03/01/08 - Lauding Esa-Pekka Salonen's long tenure as Music Director of the LA Phil; A sneak preview of the LA Chamber Orchestra's current european tour, it's first in over 30 years; The conclusion of New York correspondent Chris Stanley's interview with Elaine Stritch. ArtsAlive Magazine 03/08/08 - Gail checks in from Spain during LACO's european tour; Tony-award winning director John Doyle brings a stripped down Sweeney Todd to the Ahmanson Theater; Touring the California Heritage Museum's exhibit that iconographized many Hollywood Stars ArtsAlive Magazine 03/15/08 - A Reading and Discussion of Russell Leong's commissioned poem; finding LA's artistic beat with BackhausDance with Jennifer Backhaus; Kenneth Turran highlights his Oscar 'should-have-won' foreign language winner - Beaufort ArtsAlive Magazine 03/22/08 - Jacaranda brings a program of mostly Messiaen to Santa Monica; Video Artist Bill Viola takes us behind the scenes of a new Getty exhibit; Previewing Jeffrey Siegel's upcoming Keyboard Conversation ArtsAlive Magazine 03/29/08 - Deborah Borda on choosing to hire Music Director Designate Gustavo Dudamel; A celebration of Baseball via poems in light of its opening games this weekend; Championing the harpsichord... and modern music. Finding where the twain shall indeed meet ArtsAlive Magazine 04/05/08 - Michael Hackett discusses bringing Sophocles back to life at the Villa Theater Lab; A Piano background from USC faculty member Daniel Pollack; 'Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out' with the LA St. Petersburg Russian Folk Orchestra! ArtsAlive Magazine 04/12/08 - Creating a new standard with violinist Hilary Hahn; The contemporary chamber ensemble eighth blackbird on selecting new repertoire; Previewing German composer Helmut Lachenmann who uses a wild vocabulary. ArtsAlive Magazine 04/19/08 - Placido Domingo's 40-year jet-setting retrospective; Inside renovating the Grenada Theater; Expanding the repertoire of little-known American piano works with Althea Waites. ArtsAlive Magazine 04/26/08 - Branching off of Broadway with the New American Musicals ; Finding more than just 12 notes with MicroFest's Macroscope; A peek inside the Los Angeles Bookfair and a Presidential annoyance. ArtsAlive Magazine 05/03/08 - Travelling to Abu Dhabi for an orchestral information; Visiting the East/West players version of a French prince via Anime & Hip-hop; Lying on Iguanas, as Donna Sternberg and Dancers study the intertwinded nature of environment and humanity ArtsAlive Magazine 05/10/08 - Hear what cellist Matt Haimovitz has been exploring to bendthe meaning of "classical performing venue"; Kenneth Turan's visit to Cannes; Examining the Reprise 'Red Menace'; Recreating a cool art project. Around Town Calendar for the May 3rd ProgramThe Jr. Philharmonic celebrates its 71st Anniversary with a Sunday concert at 3:30pm in the Shrine Auditorium. The program includes appearances by Tommy Lasorda and June Lockhart. And the concert features music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Bernstein, and Sousa. A unique multi-media collaboration: actor John Malkovich, acclaimed for a variety of sinister film roles, teams up with the Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra for a new work of musical theater called "Seduction and Despair." Gluck's Don Juan as well as works by Handel, Mozart, Boccherini, and others serve as the musical backdrop for this true story based on the life of poet, notorious womanizer, and convicted serial killer Jack Unterweger - portrayed by Malkovich. Musica Angelica's Martin Hasselbock conducts. Two performances will be held; Saturday at 8pm and Sunday afternoon at 4, in Barnum Hall, Santa Monica. The Torrance Art Museum presents a survey of photographic images by Jim Farber, whose byline may be familiar from his music and arts reviews in Variety and the Daily Breeze. The exhibit encompasses 40 years of the California arts scene from San Francisco to Los Angeles and features a range of photographic practices, from street photography to photo-drawings, photo-collages and landscape pieces. It runs through the end of the month at the Torrance Art Museum. The Pasadena Playhouse is hosting a workshop for students with writer and filmmaker Diane Namm. It takes place May 5th through the 7th. During the workshop Namm will adapt student-written narratives into five minute scenes. Then, a couple weeks later she'll present a staged reading of those scenes. It's being presented in conjunction with the Pasadena Playhouse's current run of Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, which opened last night and runs through early June. For those who can't get enough of that greasepaint, The Festival of New American Musicals continues with seven feature events this first weekend in May: "The Brain from Planet X" opens at the Chance Theater in Orange County and "Enter the Guardsman" at the Covina Performing Arts Center; Wicked's Stephen Schwartz performs his "Defying Gravity" concert, and gives a master class both at Citrus College. Two area high schools are also up and running - Birmingham High in the Valley premiering "Klemperers' New Clothes" and Palos Verdes High performing "All That He Was." For more events, head to experiencela.comClick Here to Visit Arts Alive Archive for 2006/07Wonder what it's like to be in Europe on tour with LACO?
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