Ebullient Brahms Piano Trios with Yo-Yo Ma and Friends
/What’s even more astonishing, they made music together like a well-honed, silk-road smooth ensemble, with nary a hint of egos at play.
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What’s even more astonishing, they made music together like a well-honed, silk-road smooth ensemble, with nary a hint of egos at play.
Read MoreThe 'street people' chorus, in Christine Crook's psychedelically colorful hippie costumes, were as brutally relentless as McKinny's celebrant was serenely spiritual in his "A Simple Song".
Read MoreTV star Kelsey Grammer sings and speaks the duo role of Dr. Pangloss and Voltaire (narrator) reasonably well for his first foray into opera. Broadway veteran Christine Ebersole is luxury casting as the campy one-buttocked Old Lady.
Read MoreThe Maraca2 percussion duo from the UK, who performed virtuoso stunts on their drum sets and ceramic tiles worthy of a Cirque du Soleil show
Read MoreThe three virtuoso dancers were from Finland’s Tero Saarinen Company, and created mesmerizing synergistic physical counterpart to the music.
Read MoreMs. Buniatishvili played with relaxed refinement in the first two movements which might strike some listeners as lethargic and others as elegant.
Read MoreMr. Domingo, amazingly, had sung the tenor role Ismaele some 35 years ago and here sings the agony of the flawed king of Babylon with heartrending pathos.
Read MoreGergiev met his match in pianist Denis Matsuev, who stunned in the power and clarity of his playing, romping through the four movements of the concerto with equal fun and ease.
Read Morethe hall overflowed to capacity and a long line formed outside hoping to land tickets. Many in the audience were L.A. Phil musicians, past and present, coming to pay homage to a storied American orchestra.
Read MoreThis “Pearl Fishers” is unapologetically traditional, an enchanting mise-en-scène populated with real divers, fishermen, ocean waves and exotic Oriental colors on stage, as well as real pearls in the cast and orchestra.
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