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1 week ago |
latimes.com | Mark Swed
Saturday night, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted his San Francisco Symphony in a staggering performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, known as the “Resurrection.” It was a ferocious performance and an exalted one of gripping intensity. This is a symphony emblematic for Mahler of life and death, an urgent questioning of why we are here.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Mark Swed
5 hours agoClassical bass legend Charlie Burrell dies at 104It was always Charlie Burrell's plan to move to Colorado. The kid from Detroit loved the mountains and wanted to live in Denver, the place his mom …21 hours agoAt the San Francisco Symphony, Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Extraordinary ExitThe conductor concluded his all-too-brief term as music director with three unforgettable performances of Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony. All good things must come to an end—but must that end come so soon?
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2 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Mark Swed
You can’t escape nature in Ojai. That meant that flutist Claire Chase, this year’s Ojai Music Festival music director who is often called a force of nature, fit right in. Chase is the proudest flutist I’ve ever observed. And the most expressive. She holds her head high whether playing piccolo or the 6-foot contrabass flute, as if her instrument were a magic wand used to activate her voice in the highest registers and the deepest. The activism is more than an analogy.
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3 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Mark Swed
K-pop. Oscar-celebrated cinema. Samsung in the living room. Political urgency in the press. However prominent Korean culture seems to be, there is surprising lack of coverage of the classical scene at large. Already at 21, Yunchan Lim, winner of the 2018 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, has reached superstar status.
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3 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Mark Swed
Though mean-spirited, the jester Rigoletto — Verdi’s hapless, vengeful hunchback — wins our hearts as the outsider whom a heartless world so often abuses. “Rigoletto” remains an opera reminding us where to direct our sympathies when authoritarianism remains the alternative. That is not as straightforward as it sounds. Los Angeles Opera has struggled with one insufficient “Rigoletto” production after another, imported or homegrown.
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