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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…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreVANITY 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…
Read MoreEditor’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…
Read MoreLecture: 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…
Read MoreOriginal 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…
Read MoreFrancis 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…
Read MoreIn 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…
Read MoreCamerata 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 1067Haydn Piano…
Read MoreKalil 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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