John Lavitt

2 weeks ago | hollywoodtimes.net | John Lavitt

At the Walt Disney Concert Hall, backed by the LA Phil, Yo-Yo Ma and Gustavo Dudamel celebrated John Williams’s fantastic musical legacy and enduring friendship. By John LavittLos Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 04-09-2025In a rare and radiant evening at Walt Disney Concert Hall, three giants of music—Yo-Yo Ma, Gustavo Dudamel, and the legendary composer John Williams—converged to celebrate a lifetime of artistic brilliance and enduring friendship.

2 weeks ago | hollywoodtimes.net | John Lavitt

At the Walt Disney Concert Hall, in his eighty-second year of glorious living on this planet, Herbie Hancock and his talented band were nothing less than a musical revelation. By John LavittLos Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 04-04-2025As the Creative Chair for Jazz for the LA Phil, Herbie Hancock blesses Los Angeles with more than curating incredible shows yearly at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl.

4 weeks ago | hollywoodtimes.net | John Lavitt

At the Walt Disney Concert Hall, two liturgical works by classic composers – Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Bach’s Magnificat – come to life with the aid of influential operatic singers. By John LavittLos Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 03-25-2025The Walt Disney Concert Hall shimmered with sacred fervor as conductor Emmanuelle Haïm led the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a thrilling opening to The Handel Project Festival.

4 weeks ago | hollywoodtimes.net | John Lavitt

With eight-time GRAMMY Award-winner Philip Lawrence in the audience, the celebratory revelation of Ray Charles’s evolution as an enlightened musical performer proved genuinely inspiring. By John LavittLos Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 03-26-2025Led by Artistic and Music Director Rachael Worby of MUSE/IQUE in association with Center Theatre Group, ACCORDING TO RAY: Ray Charles’s Message to America proved to be a resounding success at the Mark Taper Forum.

1 month ago | hollywoodtimes.net | John Lavitt

The soul-draining photographs of playtime at Auschwitz are all-encompassing in the new play at the cultural center of Beverly Hills, where the commonality of atrocity must be endured. By John LavittBeverly Hills, CA (The Hollywood Times) 03-18-2024Some nights at the theater entertain. Others provoke. And then there are nights like this—where the weight of history settles over an audience like an unshakable fog, leaving silence in its wake.