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Van Morrison Will Bring 'Astral Weeks' Show Back to California
The resurrection of Van Morrisons watershed 1968 album Astral Weeks in concert continues to expand with the Irish singers announcement of plans to bring it back to California in May for several more performances. Morrison will present the work in its reconfigured entirety at Berkeleys Greek Theatre on May 2 and 3 and then will return ...
Prosecutor: Spector Played 'Russian Roulette with the Lives of Women'
Urging jurors to convict Phil Spector of murder Monday. Prosecutor said the fatal shooting of an actress was the inevitable result of the legendary music producer’s “history of playing Russian roulette with the lives of women.” Referring to a string of women who testified, Deputy Dist. Atty. Truc Do said Spector had terrorized them with guns ...
College Television Awards Announced
Students from UCLA, American Film Institute, Cal State Northridge and Art Center College of Design are among the first-place winners. Six local students were among the first-place winners of the 30th annual College Television Awards, handed out Saturday night by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation. Julie Sagalowsky and Josh C. Feldman of UCLA ...
Academy of Ancient Music at Segerstrom Hall
The ensemble performs Bach's six 'Brandenburg' Concertos. We don't normally think of Bach -- whose music is felt to have been touched by a divine spirit and always displayed transcendent intellect -- as a rite of spring. But as musicologists and early music specialists never tire in pointing out, dance is the motor that drove much ...
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JAZZ MUSIC LOS ANGELES Cryptonights: Myra Melford and Be Bread, Alex Cline Continuation Quartet REDCAT at Walt Disney Concert Hall 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles The Los Angeles creative jazz label Cryptogramophone Records celebrates its 10- year anniversary and double CD release. Pianist Myra Melford leads Be ...
Finding That Song
Back in 1998, I was driving down Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles when I spotted a man lying on his back smack dab in the middle of the street; one leg was splayed onto the westbound lane of Pico, the other onto the eastbound. I got out of my car, and as I approached I saw ...
Hollywood's Blog Smog
New idiom presents conflict of interest Andrew Sullivan observed recently that “blogging is writing out loud." He continued: “A blog is not so much daily writing as hourly writing. Blogging is therefore to writing what extreme sports is to athletics; more free-form, more accident-prone, more alive." Because of all this, the relationship between blogging and traditional ...
Dorothea Holt Redmond Designer Helped Create the Look of Several Hitchcock Films Passes
Dorothea Holt Redmond broke ground in 1938 as the first woman to invade the “heretofore exclusively male field” of motion-picture production design, at David O. Selznick’s studio, The Times reported that year. She came to be regarded as one of the most talented illustrators in the industry. Redmond worked on seven Hitchcock films, as well as ...
Phil Spector's Second Murder Trial Winds Down as Jurors Allowed to Consider Lesser Charges
Six years after actress Lana Clarkson died of a gunshot wound at Phil Spector's hilltop mansion, lawyers will once again deliver final arguments to a jury in the legendary music producer's murder trial. The question hanging over these proceedings is whether this jury, unlike the one at Spector's first trial 18 months ago, will be able ...
John McLaughlin and Chick Corea's Five Peace Band
Based on first impressions, the '70s were back at Royce Hall on Thursday night. Led by two titans of jazz fusion, that controversial sub-genre that began with Miles Davis' “In a Silent Way," John McLaughlin and Chick Corea opened their North American tour with an ensemble dubbed the Five Peace Band. The UCLA event brought the ...
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