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Alan's Poppies and Sage, photographed by Paul Cabanis, Spring 2010.
Monthly Archives: June 2002
Sir Donald and His Ideal Listener
Sir Donald Francis Tovey changed my life — for the better, I like to think. I was 20, as hapless a premed as ever walked along ivied walls. Somebody in physics lab showed me a slim volume he‘d just acquired: … Continue reading
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The Little Company that Can
IT HAPPENED AGAIN. TWO WEEKENDS AGO, while the Los Angeles Opera was showing off the buying power of million-dollar budgets in its oversize Music Center playground, a few miles to the south there was the Long Beach Opera, the little … Continue reading
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LONG BEACH OPERA REVIEW
Aside from a couple of college-based productions of distant memory, Leos Janacek’s Jenufa has remained a history-book entry in the Los Angeles area, but little more. That, of course, makes it ideal fodder for the intrepid explorative force known as … Continue reading
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LOS ANGELES OPERA REVIEW
Given the geographic proximity of the Los Angeles Music Center to the region’s other major cultural industry, you’d expect a close working relationship between the Los Angeles Opera and the surviving shards of the film industry. You’d be wrong, however; … Continue reading
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Odd Couple Oddly Coupled
The on-again, off-again romance between the Los Angeles Opera and the other local industry — which sagged a while back as Hollywood’s Bruce Beresford turned Rigoletto into a lumpy hash — has now moved forward a couple of notches. William … Continue reading
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Terminations and Renewals
The story of Terezin‘s music is well known: Hitler’s Nazis maintaining this one prison camp — Theresienstadt in German, Terezin in its native Czech — as a cultural showcase, composers and other artistic spirits encouraged to create and perform for … Continue reading
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