Most Recent Cultural Cocktails
This weekend’s Cultural Cocktail recipe: 1 Part Colburn Orchestra, a fusion of Flanders and Florence topped off by a splash of Liszt and Rachmaninoff. Enjoy! Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered Trademark Colburn Orchestra Concert Sat. Sept. 28th 7:30 PM Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena Yehuda Gilad, conductor; William Hagen, violin;…
Read MoreThis weekend is a classic-filled Cultural Cocktail: a dose of outdoor Shakespeare, 1 part LA Chamber Music, and 1 Part Greek Tragedy at the Getty Villa! Enjoy! Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus; new translation by Joel Agee Directed by Travis Preston Thursdays–Saturdays, September 5–28 8:00 p.m. Getty…
Read MoreThis weekend’s Cultural Cocktail recipe: an apéritif of Carmen, 1 Oz. California History, and 2 Doses of Czech music. Enjoy! Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered Trademark LA Opera Performs Arias from Carmen *Free* September 12 7-8:30 pm One Colorado Courtyard, Pasadena. 24 E Union St Pasadena, CA 91103(626) 564-1066 Two…
Read MoreIn an unusual twist, the very same museum that declared a Van Gogh painting to be fake in 1991 now declares it to be an authenticated work by the Dutch master. The 1888 landscape painting “Sunset at Montmajour,” has now been hailed…
Read MoreThis weekend’s Cultural Cocktail recipe includes a Wagnerian Love Letter and Medieval Saints Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered Trademark KUSC’s Brian Lauritzen hosts an in-depth look at Wagner’s private, musical love letter to his wife in Salastina Society’s season-opening MASTERPIECE DISCOVERY: THE SIEGFRIED IDYLL Sat. Sept 7th. 8…
Read Moreby Leticia Marie Sanchez Visiting Florence in 1817, the French novelist Stendhal found himself overwhelmed inside Santa Croce. The proximity to Giotto frescoes and Michelangelo’s tomb drove him to a state of delicious delirium. “I was in a sort of ecstasy…Absorbed in…
Read MorePhotography and text © 2013 Leticia Marie Sanchez Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered trademark Photo, Left: Giorgio Vasari, The battle of Marciano in Val di Chiana, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence Inside the Palazzo Vecchio, one can stroll through the Salone dei Cinquecento. This imposing hall for the…
Read MorePhotography and text © 2013 Leticia Marie Sanchez Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered trademark Greetings from Umbria! Artists including Cimabue, Giotto, Perugino, Fillipo Lippi, and Piero della Francesca spent time in this verdant oasis. How could they not be inspired? Even the crickets…
Read MoreAll Photography © 2013 Leticia Marie Sanchez Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered trademark
Read MorePhotography and text © 2013 Leticia Marie Sanchez Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered trademark Okay, so this photo isn’t a cappuccino. But an espresso macchiato from Badia a Coltibuono, Gaiole In Chianti (where I had the most scrumptious Aubergine Terrine on the planet,…
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