John Cage

Review: Industry's remarkable 'Crescent City' reshapes L.A. opera

2012-05-11 14:35:00

At the world premiere Thursday night of Anne LeBaron's darkly mysterious, troubling yet weirdly exuberant and wonderfully performed new opera "Crescent City," a young Reveler in the production frolicked a few feet from where I was sitting on a folding...

Music: Richard Thompson concert

2012-04-25 16:37:06

MUSIC The guitarist Richard Thompson started in the virtuosic traditional-folk outfit Fairport Convention, but his songwriting has always strayed ambitiously wide. For this tour in support of his new album "Interviews With Ghosts," he joins the new music...

Music review: Herbert Blomstedt leads Beethoven's Missa Solemnis

2012-04-15 16:33:49

Odd instruments are music to composers' ears

2012-04-08 00:00:00

The score for Oscar Bettison's chamber concerto "Livre des Sauvages" ("The Book of Savages") should come with an IKEA-like warning: Some Assembly Required. The half-hour work, which will be given its premiere Tuesday at Walt Disney Concert Hall as part of...

Music review: Cage, Stockhausen and Bettison under Green Umbrella

2012-04-11 16:33:28

Music review: San Francisco Symphony's John Cage 'Song Books'

2012-03-15 16:32:51

Music review: John Adams' 'Absolute Jest' in San Francisco

2012-03-16 16:34:00

Music review: Neeme Jarvi, Ralph Kirshbaum and L.A. Phil at Disney Hall

2012-03-16 16:34:04

Music review: Spectral Scriabin

2012-03-18 16:32:33

Movie review: 'Sound of Noise'

2012-03-09 00:00:00

The directors of the delightful 2001 short film "Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers," which showcases the noncutesy melodic possibilities of squeak toys, toothbrushes and vacuum cleaners, successfully build upon the premise in "Sound of Noise."...

Music review: Jeffrey Kahane recital at Walt Disney Concert Hall

2012-03-08 16:33:45

Movie review: 'Boy'

2012-03-09 00:00:00

The New Zealand-set, coming-of-age quirkfest "Boy" proves as slight as its minimalist title. Like the film's lead character, a scrappy 11-year-old everyone calls simply Boy (the wonderfully expressive James Rolleston), there's potential here. But writer-...

, to whom she was married for nearly 30 years. Above, a detail from her 1943 painting "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik." She was 101.

2012-02-07 09:44:59

What's in store for 2012? A Pulitzer Prize winner, an adaptation of a hit horror film and a traveling Broadway smash will take center stage in theater, while Pacific Standard Time marches on in the art world. In music, John Cage tributes and Ravi Coltrane will take the spotlight.

2011-12-29 16:51:44

Composer John Cage, known as the grandfather of the avant-garde, was born Sept. 5, 1912 and died in 1992. He would have celebrated his 100th birthday in 2012, and a slew of celebratory events are being held all year across the country in his honor.

2011-12-28 15:35:05