Cultural Events Labor Day Weekend LA

Watch an Ancient Greek tragedy like the Ancient Greeks did, in an amphitheater under the evening stars..

Agamemnon (Preview)

Fri. Aug. 29, 2008. 8 pm.

The Barbara & Lawrence Fleischman Theater, Getty Villa, Malibu

(Sold Out Saturday the 30th)

Starring Tyne Daly and Delroy Lindo

http://www.getty.edu/visit/events/agamemnon.html

From the Getty site:

“This open-air staging by acclaimed director Stephen Wadsworth resurrects Aeschylus’ unsettling domestic drama of The House of Atreus, heard in a riveting translation by the late Robert Fagles. The victorious Agamemnon arrives home with his surviving troops after the bloody battle for Troy. As the drama unfolds, a returning soldier bears witness to unthinkable carnage, a city questions the wisdom of the decade-long war, and a family turns the violence of war in on itself. Tickets $38; $32 students/seniors. (Previews $15).” 

This Side of Paradise:  Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs (until Sept 15, 2008)

This exhibit juxtaposes the glamour and underbelly of Los Angeles, demystifying the idea of Southern California paradise with photographs of the LA Times bombing and the deadened eyes of a woman in curlers working in the Adult Film Industry. Huntington Library. 1151 Oxford Road. San Marino, CA 91108.  (626) 405-2100

http://www.huntington.org/Information/paradise.htm

This Weekend in LA, August 22 and 23rd. Southwest Chamber Music

Friday August 22. 7:30 P.M

Saturday August 23. 7:30 P.M

Darius Milhaud: La Cheminée du Roi René

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Chôros No. 2

La Scala Comes to Beverly Hills, Thursday August 21

A film of La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, Thursday August 21, 7:30 P.M

Laemmle Music Hall. 9306 Wilshire Boulevard. Beverly Hills. 90211

310.274.6869. www.laemmle.com

This Weekend in LA: Friday August 15. “Winds in the Garden.”

“Percussion, Planets, and Pictures” at the Hollywood Bowl Thursday August 14. 8:00 P.M

Wagner, Ride of the Valkyries, Rouse, Der Gerettete Alberich, Holst, “The Planets.”

Hollywood Bowl.2301 North Highland Ave.Hollywood, CA 90068. (323)850.2000

From the website: “The Planets conclude the concert enhanced by stunning imagery from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena.”

http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/

Cultural Events LA this weekend: August 1-2

Angelenos, take a weekend getaway, and immerse yourselves in music!

La Jolla Music Society Summer Fest

from August 1-August 24, is a nationally-recognized chamber music festival featuring over 70 world-class artists and ensembles performing 16 concerts.

This cornucopia of musical treasures includes: jazz, dance, and works by Mozart, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky, Messiaen, and many more.

For information about tickets, please visit the web site below.

 http://www.ljcms.org/

Antony and Cleopatra

Shakespeare by the Sea                                  

Saturday August 2. 7 P.M

Bonita Canyon Sports Park.

1990 Ford Road.

Newport Beach.

“O excellent! I love long life better than figs.” Act I. Scene 2.

For more information, visit: http://www.shakespearebythesea.org/

Pietro Germi Films at LACMA

Two comedies by Italian director Pietro Germi.

Fri. Aug 1st & Sat. Aug 2nd. 

7:30 P.M Divorce Italian Style.

9:30 P.M Seduced and Abandoned

http://www.lacma.org/programs/FilmListing.aspx#1206741948808

This Weekend in LA: July 25 and 26

Baroque Treats for the Eye, Ear, and Soul

Fri. July 25: 7:00 p.m.  Norton Simon Museum of Art.

411 W. Colorado Boulevard. Pasadena, CA 91105. 626.449.6840.

http://www.harmoniabaroque.org/

Harmonious music wafting among the paintings by Botticelli, Fra Angelico, and Bellini; what better way to soothe your senses and your soul?

Southwest Chamber Music

Fri. July 25 & Sat. July 26. 7:30 p.m.

The Huntington. 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108. 626.405.2100. 

Inspired by the art collections and the new Chinese garden, the program includes works by Carl Friedrich Abel (whose portrait by Gainsborough hangs in the Huntington Art Gallery) and Joan Huang’s Impressions of Suzhou. For more information call 800.726.7147.

Or visit: www.swmusic.org

Program: C. F. Abel. Quartet for Flute and Strings.

J.C Bach. Quartet for Flute and Strings, Op. 19, No. 3.

Joan Huang. Impressions of Suzhou.

Robert Schumann, Fantasy Piece for Clarinet and Piano. Op.73.

L.V Beethoven. Trio No. 7 for Piano, Clarinet, and Cello, Op. 11.

Carl Friedrich Abel.

Thomas Gainsborough. 1777.

Huntington Library Art Collections. San Marino, California.

Mozart Under the Stars: July 22 and July 23

Tuesday July 22 8:00 P.M

Wednesday July 23 8:00 P.M

Hollywood Bowl. 2301 North Highland Ave. Hollywood, CA 90068. 323.850.2000

LA Philharmonic. Sir Andrew Davis, conductor. Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano. Orion Weiss, Piano. Mozart. Overture to La Clemenza Di Tito; “Ch’io mi scordi di te.”; Piano Concerto No 17. K. 453. “Exsultate Jubilate;” Symphony No. 38, K. 504. “Prague.”

http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/tickets/performance_detail.cfm?id=3520

This Weekend in LA: July 19

Shakespeare By the Sea presents

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Puck, Oberon, Lysander, and company make mischief in the woods. The best scene is when Titiana wakes next to Nick Bottom, who has been transformed into a donkey, and Snout exclaims, “O Bottom, thou art translated.”

Saturday July 19, 7pm

Polliwog Park. 1601 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 

Free admission.

Bring your own chairs or towels.

 http://www.shakespearebythesea.org/

Cultural Events this weekend in LA: July 11- July 13

Southwest Chamber Music

Friday July 11, Saturday July 12. 7:30 P.M Huntington Library

 W. A. Mozart

Divertimento in B flat major, K. 270 

Serenade in C minor, K. 388

“Harmoniemusik” excerpts from “The Magic Flute”

Call 800-726-7147 for availability

http://www.swmusic.org/site/concerts/huntington_master.html

 Shakespeare Festival LA

Taming of the Shrew

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Downtown LA

July 9-13,  July 16-20

Show Starts at 8 P.M (Seating begins at 6:30)

Box office (213) 975-9891

From the Festival Website: “The Taming of the Shrew fires on all cylinders with a… uniquely Los Angeles look at Shakespeare’s classic comedy.”

 http://www.shakespearefestivalla.org/calendar.php

California Philharmonic

Andrew Lloyd Weber Meets Puccini

Sat July 12. 7:30 P.M. The Arboretum. Arcadia.

Sun. July 13. 2:00 P.M  Walt Disney Concert Hall. 

Selections from: Tosca, La Boheme, Phantom of the Opera & Evita.

Box Office: 626.300.8200. 

http://www.calphil.org/