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Best Original Song Nominee List Missing a Few Songs of Note
U2, Paul McCartney and Mary J. Blige are among those who miss out on the short list. While T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham are up for “Weary Kind (Theme From 'Crazy Heart')." Oscar noms -- who got snubbed? By most criteria, Paul McCartney and U2 have little reason to regard French composers Reinhardt ...
Michael Giacchino Was a Crazed 9-Year-Old 'Star Wars' Geek
When Michael Giacchino was in elementary school, all his friends were following the rock bands of the moment, notably Led Zeppelin, the Who and the Beatles. But Giacchino admits that he was “pretty adverse" to rock 'n' roll. “I hate to admit it," he told me the other day, “but I was listening to a lot ...
Kathryn Grayson Sing Star of the Golden Age of Hollywood 1922-2010
Kathryn Grayson, the petite singer and actress whose operatic voice and campus-sweetheart beauty embodied the glamour of Hollywood movie musicals in the 1940s and 50s, died Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 88. Ms. Grayson, a coloratura soprano, was best known for three film roles: the movie hopeful who attracts the attentions of ...
Randy Newman at Royce Hall
Randy Newman's best, most pointed songs usually will come around again with enough time, timely once more either from history repeating itself, or mankind living up to his worst expectations. At his concert Friday for UCLA Live at Royce Hall, his quietly wounded and defiant “Louisiana 1927" told of another generation's devastating flood, but had new ...
Celebrating Chopin's 200th Birthday at the Zipper
Evening of Music and Poetry celebrating Chopin's 200th Birthday The Paderewski Music Society and Modjeska Cultural Club present an all Chopin program. Poetry about the composer and his music will be recited by actress Jane Kaczmarek ("Malcolm in the Middle"). February 27th : 7 p.m. Zipper Concert Hall 200 S Grand Ave., ...
Riccardo Chailly and the World's Oldest Orchestra at Disney Hall
The sunny Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly has a knack for landing where youd least expect him and making a go of it. He is music director of what used to seem the eternally starchy Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. They began a U.S. tour with a Beethoven date in the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Wednesday night. This ...
Quincy Jones, Lionel Richie Pass 'We Are the World' Baton
Producer Quincy Jones, singer Lionel Richie and producer Rickey Minor gathered for the We Are the World: 25 for Haiti recording session at Jim Henson Studios in Hollywood. A changed planet, new orbit and bigger galaxy of stars. For Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie, the second revolution of We Are the World, launched Friday, easily matches ...
A Night in Berlin the Jazz Age at Royce Hall
Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester. It's the sound of romance. Horns sing with reeds and strings, seeming to set the very air dancing to the rhythms of waltzes, fox trots and pasodobles. A man, dressed impeccably in tie and tails, steps up to a mike and, in a focused, rounded falsetto, completes the close, perfect ...
Upcoming Concerts Across the Southland
Honda Center Los Tres with Joan Sebastian, Alejandro Fernandez and Marco Antonio Solis April 9 (Fri.) Gibson Amphitheatre Ramon Ayala April 17 (Fri.) El Rey Theatre Ethan Bortnick and his Musical Time Machine Feb. 28-March 1 High on Fire April ...
Mariah Carey Does the Citywalk
Hot on the heels of her award-winning performance in “Precious," and in anticipation of next month's remix album, Ms. Carey's “Angels' Advocate Tour" holds down two nights at at the Gibson Amphitheatre. This marks the seventh concert tour for the 39-year singer and actress. Mariah Carey February 23rd : 8:15 p.m. ...
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