This weekend in LA: Halloween Weekend 2008, Oct 31-Nov 1st

Imbibe a Cultural Cocktail this Halloween!

Halloween in Hades; UCLA Hammer Museum; 7-11 p.m  

 

 This Halloween party includes a costume contest, a spooky screening in the Billy Wilder Theater as well as musical performances by the groups Discount Cruise to Hell, Hecuba, and We Are the World. According to the Hammer website, “The ghoulish music, ghastly dancers, and gruesome visuals that descend upon the Hammer Courtyard will have you shrieking with horror.”

Hammer Museum.

10899 Wilshire Blvd. LA, CA, 90024. 310.443.7000

 

 

MUSE COSTUME BALL at LACMA

Editor’s Caveat: Although most individual tickets are sold out, one can purchase a Halloween membership to LACMA which comes with two Costume Ball tickets. Call 323 857-6010 for information. 

 From the LACMA website:

 “Ghoul meets glamour at the fifth anniversary of the Muse Costume Ball as we walk down the blood red carpet on the arm of Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008. Join us as we enjoy mysterious potions concocted by Pernod Absinthe while getting down to live music by Grand Ole Party and a DJ set by Le Femme Digitale. Once again, the party kicks off in the L.A. Times Central Courtyard followed by the after party in the LACMA West Penthouse featuring our annual Costume Contest. Dress to impress as paparazzi lurk at every turn!”

For more information, please visit: http://www.lacma.org/membership/mtm08.aspx

 

LACMA. 5905 Wilshire Blvd. LA, CA 90036.  

 

 

 

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Introduction to Wagner’s “The Ring” November 8

 A touch of Fantasy..

A touch of Myth and Magic..

An experience you’ll never forget!

In conjunction with LA Opera and Hispanics for LA Opera, Dr. Sherwin Sloan, Chairman of the Southern California Wagner Society, will give a lecture on the Ring Cycle at his home in the Hollywood Hills

Saturday November 8

5:00 P.M Wine Reception and Hors D’Oeuvres 6:00 P.M Lecture on Wagner’s Ring Cycle; 6:30 P.M Opera Recital, featuring Teresa Brown, Soprano, Nmon Ford, Baritone, Victoria Kirsch, piano;

To purchase tickets, email SpecialEvents@LAOpera.com, call 213.972.3260

Or open the following link:

ring-invite-pdf-2

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This Weekend in LA, Oct. 24-26

VANITY FAIR PORTRAITS :

Photographs 1913–2008.

Opens Oct. 26th

Hammer Building.

LACMA.

5905 Wilshire Blvd. LA, CA 90036.(323) 857-6000

http://www.lacma.org/

 

 

 

 NightSpot

by Twyla Tharp & Elvis Costello

Fri. Oct. 24 & Sat Oct 25 7:30 P.M Sun. Oct. 26. 2:00 P.M

Music Center. 135 North Grand Ave. LA, CA 90012 213.972.7211

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October Master Calendar of Events Los Angeles

Editor’s Note: As your cultural correspondent will be on a different continent this month, here are October’s activities in advance.

Weekend of October 4-5

Da Camera Society

Sat. Oct 4 8pm

Doheny Mansion

8 Chester Place, LA, CA, 90007

Richard Stoltzman, Clarinet; Menahem Pressler, Piano

Schubert, Sonatina in D, D. 384; Berg, Four Pieces, Op. 5; Brahms Sonata in F, Op. 120/1

http://www.dacamera.org/

 

 

 

 Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure

Opening Sat. Oct. 4th

The Huntington.1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108. (626)405.2100

http://www.huntington.org/

 

 Lecture: American Wartime Propaganda

Sat. Oct 4th. 4 p.m.

Norton Simon. 411 W. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91105.

(626) 449.6840 http://www.nortonsimon.org/

 

Weekend of October 11-12 

Tradition as Innovation in African Art

Ahmanson Building, Plaza Level

LACMA. 5905 Wilshire Blvd. LA, CA 90036.

(323) 857-6000

http://www.lacma.org/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Madama Butterfly

Fri. Oct. 10 7:30 p.m. Sun. Oct 12. 2:00 p.m LA Opera. 135 North Grand Ave, LA CA 90012. (213) 972-8001. http://www.losangelesopera.com/ 

 

 

 

Confucius: Shaping Values Through Art

Pacific Asia Museum. 46 N. Los Robles Ave. Pasadena, CA, 91101.

(626) 449. 2742

http://www.pacificasiamuseum.org/

 

Weekend of  October 17-19

Surf Orpheus- Oct 17 8 pm

Auditorium, Getty Villa

17985 Pacific Coast Highway.

Pacific Palisades, CA 90272.

(310) 440-7300

http://www.getty.edu/

 

 

 

 

 

Baroque Variations: Anderszewski Plays Bach- Sat. Oct 18

Piotr Anderszewski, piano

Bach: Partita No. 2 in C minor; Partita No. 1 in B-Flat, BWV, 825; Prelude and Fugue No. 19 in A from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II; Prelude and Fugue No. 20 in A minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II; English Suite No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811  

Walt Disney Concert Hall. 111 South Grand Ave., LA, CA 90012

323.850.2000

http://www.laphil.com/

 

 

Camerata Pacifica- October 17-23

Fri. Oct 17. Hahn Hall, Santa Barbara: 1:00 p.m and 7:30 p.m

Sun. Oct 19. Temple Beth Torah, Ventura. 3:00 p.m.

Tues. Oct 21. Huntington Library, San Marino 8:00 p.m.

Thurs. Oct. 23. Zipper Hall, LA, 8:00 p.m

Saint Saens, Sonata for Bassoon, Op. 168. Gaubert. Flute Sonata in A Major. Harbison. Twilight Music. Villa-Lobos. Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6. Brahms. Horn Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 40.Adrian Spence, Catherine Leonard, John Steinmetz, Steve Becknell, Kevin Fitzgerald. For more information about the concerts, please see:

http://www.cameratapacifica.org/

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This Weekend in LA: September 26-27

Lecture: Rodin: The Back Story

Sat. Sept 27

2:00-3:00 p.m

Norton Simon Museum of Art.

411 W. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91105

(626).449.6840

http://www.nortonsimon.org/

 

 

 

The Janis Mann Quartet

Fri Sept 26: 6pm LACMA. 5905 Wilshire Blvd. LA,

All the Saints of the City of Angels

by J. Michael Walker

(Closing October 5th)

Autry National Center. 4700 Western Heritage Way. LA, CA, 90027 (323) 667.2000

http://www.allthesaints.com/

http://allthesaintsofla.blogspot.com/

If you have not already, please read full review:

http://culturalcocktailhour.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/the-best-exhibit-in-los-angeles-hands-down/

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This Weekend in LA: Sept 20-21

 

Francis Alÿs: Fabiola.

Ahmanson Building

LACMA

5905 Wilshire Blvd. LA, CA 90036

(823)857.6000

http://www.lacma.org/

 

 

Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor

Closing October 16th

Bowers Museum

2002 N. Main Street. Santa Ana, CA. 92706

(714)567.3600

http://www.bowers.org/index.jsp

 

 Lecture: “Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England”

Sat, Sept. 20^th 3 pm

Auditorium, Getty Villa. 17985 Pacific Coast Highway.Pacific Palisades, CA 90272. 310. 440-7300.

http://www.getty.edu/

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Review: Camerata Pacifica’s September concert

Apollo, Dionysus, and Camerata Pacifica

In his groundbreaking 1872 work The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music, Friedrich Nietzsche connects musical structures with two ancient deities, Apollo and Dionysus. The Apollonian and Dionysian framework allude to Apollo, the fair-haired Greek and Roman god of music, prophesy, and the sun. His errant half-brother, Dionysus, also known as Bacchus, held court as the god of wine, theater, fertility, and ecstasy.

Apollo represents the paragon of classicism- order, harmony, and control, while Dionysius stands as the paragon of Romanticism- emotional expression, expansion of formal structures, and lyricism. The Camerata Pacifica, with their vibrant interpretation of Bach, Haydn, and Dvorák at the Huntington’s Friends Hall proved that this chamber music ensemble more than holds its own with both the sun and wine divinities. However, the ensemble’s powerful performance of Dvorák’s Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81 demonstrates that a Romantic repertoire provides the best medium through which Camerata Pacifica can showcase the talent of its gifted members.

 Throughout their interpretation of J.S Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067, one could feel the group’s vigorous energy brimming underneath the surface of the Baroque piece, like the momentum gathering in the Summer of Vivaldi whom many scholars hail as an influence on Bach’s lighter works.

If Bach’s Orchestral Suite represents a calm Apollonian summer, Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81 parallels the driving storms in Vivaldi’s Winter. This Romantic, Dionysian piece rejects orderly time distribution and swings between the melancholy Dumka and the spirited Scherzo, highlighting the violins, viola, piano, and cello during haunting moments of individualized expression. The tightly united quintet consisted of Violinists Catherine Leonard and Tereza Stanislav, Violist Richard Yongjae O’ Neill, Cellist Ani Aznavoorian, and Pianist Warren Jones who earlier demonstrated virtuosic sensibility in his poignant and playful interpretation of Haydn’s Piano Sonata in E-Flat Major, H XVI.

 Dvorák’s piece elicited three standing ovations from a stirred audience, similar to the electrified reception garnered by another Romantic piece,  Grieg’s Sonata for Piano and Cello in A Minor, Op. 36, performed by Camerata Pacifica in May. This rousing endorsement provides all the more reason for the Camerata Pacifica to immerse themselves in the Romantics. Not only does Dionysian music allows the musicians to unleash their instruments and rain musical tempests, it permits the audients to take part in the transforming Dionysian rites and leave the performance enraptured.

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In the News: Mozart Discovery

Original Mozart Music Discovered in Nantes, France

Staff of a Library in Nantes, France discovered the draft of an unknown original piece by Mozart. According to Ulrich Lesinger, head of research at the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, the handwriting gives away its famous author. “There’s no doubt that this is an original piece handwritten by Mozart.”

Mozart’s preliminary draft consists of a melody sketch and was discovered in the library’s archives.

AP Photo/David Vincent

For the full Associated Press Story, please visit:

 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_en_mu/eu_mozart_discovery;_ylt=Al.Fr6jVjdNfcQAqgzpHtRflWMcF

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Jazz Bakery: Kalil Wilson, Monday September 15th

Kalil Wilson

Monday Sept 15th

8:00 & 9:30 P.M Shows

Jazz Bakery. 3233 Helms Avenue. Los Angeles, CA, 90034

www.jazzbakery.com

Reservations: 310.271.9039

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This Week in Los Angeles: Camerata Pacifica

Camerata Pacifica, a wonderfully talented chamber music ensemble opens the 2008/2009 Season:

Tues. Sept. 16, 8 p.m. The Huntington Library, San Marino

Thurs. Sept. 18, 8 p.m. Zipper Hall, Los Angeles

Bach Suite Nº2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
Haydn Piano Sonata in E-flat Major, H XVI
Dvorák Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81

Warren Jones, piano; Adrian Spence, flute, Catherine Leonard, violin; Tereza Stanislav,violin; Richard O’ Neill, viola; Ani Aznavoorian, cello; Geoff Osika, double bass; Patricia Mabee, harpsichord.

For information on tickets, please visit: http://www.cameratapacifica.org

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