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This week’s Cultural Cocktail recipe: a blast of Beethoven, a mixture of Masterpieces, and a blend of Baroque! Enjoy! Beethoven and Strauss Fri May 1 8pm; Sat May 2 8:00 pm; Walt Disney Concert Hall. 111 S. Grand Ave. LA, CA USA 90012 (323) 850-2000 http://www.laphil.com/ LACMA 50 for 50…
Read More“My mother said to me,‘If you are a soldier,you will become a general.’‘If you are a monk,you will become the Pope.‘Instead, I was a painter,and I became Picasso”
Read MoreThis weekend, Cultural Cocktail Hour indulged in a scrumptious cultural recipe: 1 Part Gardens+ 3 Parts Shakespeare+ 2 Parts Wind Instruments Merrie Olde England found its way to Los Angeles at the Huntington Gardens. Museum-goers wearing floral crowns frolicked amongst thespians who enacted scenes from the Bard.…
Read MoreThis weekend’s Cultural Cocktail recipe: a dose of Duveen, a burst of Baroque, and a touch of Turner! Enjoy! Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered Trademark Lock, Stock and Barrel: Norton Simon’s Purchase of Duveen Brothers Gallery Closing April 27 Norton Simon. 411 W. Colorado Boulevard Pasadena, CA…
Read MoreReview: LA Opera’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” Albina Shagimuratova delivers a A Standout Performance- by Leticia Marie Sanchez LA Opera’s “Lucia Di Lammermoor” epitomizes everything that an opera should be: scenes of unrequited passion, arias between star-crossed lovers, and most importantly-…
Read MoreTraveling through time without leaving your seat- Le Salon de Musiques by Leticia Marie Sanchez Photo Left: View of Downtown LA from Le Salon De Musiques, Dorothy Chandler Pavillion Imagine being able to step into an intimate nineteenth-century musical salon,…
Read MoreCultural Cocktail Hour had the opportunity to go backstage at LA Opera and explore the upcoming production of Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. There, French musician and composer Thomas Bloch, a worldwide specialist in the Glass Harmonica, introduced the press to this rare instrument, which adds…
Read MoreHanging… Onto the Edge of Your Seat LA Opera’s Billy Budd by Leticia Marie Sanchez LA Opera’s Billy Budd in a word? Intense. Three standing ovations. The opening night of Billy Budd provoked rousing enthusiasm from the crowd. When even the villain elicits…
Read MoreCultural Cocktail Hour’s Editor-in-Chief Leticia Marie Sanchez had the opportunity to go backstage on the set of Benjamin Britten’s seafaring opera Billy Budd which opens at LA Opera on February 22nd. Backstage at Billy Budd: 3 Fun Facts 1. Water and Britten Conductor James Conlon explained, “Water is an enormous element in…
Read MoreHearsay of the Soul, Werner Herzog Getty Center. 1200 Getty Center Drive. LA, CA. 90049. (310) 440-7300 www.getty.edu Closing April 20th This moving journey into interior worlds combines the landscape etchings of 16th century Dutch artist Hercules Segers with the music of cellist and…
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