This week all of them are related to the West Coast/Left Coast festival. I want to include venues and events that are more underground so if you have any more please forward to me and I'll post it! I'll post anything related to contemporary classical, jazz, noise, free improvisation, experimental, etc. etc. Also, I'm putting everything into a calendar that you can access
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11/27
West Coast, Left Coast: Dudamel Conducts Salonen and Adams (Also 11/28,29)
WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL
111 S. Grand Ave. L.A.
8 PM
$42-$160
From the LA Phil website:
Part of the West Coast, Left Coast Festival Two major works about L.A. – Salonen's breakthrough, composed specifically for the LA Phil, and Adams brand new work, all about L.A. and commissioned by the LA Phil. Experience Los Angeles through the prism of music.
11/29
West Coast, Left Coast: Piano Spheres
Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 South Grand Avenue,
Los Angeles, CA 90012
7:30 PM
$31.75
From the LA Phil Website:
Displaying powerhouse technique while bringing contemporary works to life, the innovative Los Angeles-based Piano Spheres presents California Keyboard, an exploration of the sounds and styles of notable California composers.
Cage,Cowell, Powell, Kraft, Jarvinen, Lesemann, Naidoo, Lentz
11/30
AMY X NEUBERG AND THE CELLO CHIXTET
The Colburn School of Music, Zipper Concert Hall
200 S. Grand Ave,
Los Angeles
8 PM
$20.50
From the LA Phil Website:
San Francisco-based singer, composer & electronic instrument performer Amy X Neuburg bridges the boundaries between classical, experimental & popular music in her California take on New York City.
12/1
West Coast, Left Coast: Green Umbrella: Adams and Kronos Quartet
Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
8 PM
$26-$51
From The LA Phil Website:
This quintessentially Californian program features Marshall’s tape/brass evocation of foghorns and Partch’s individualistic hobo travelogue. Selections from Zappa’s last recording go all the way back to 1969’s Uncle Meat.
Ingram Marshall says that, “Fog Tropes was composed in San Francisco in 1981 at the behest of John Adams. A few years earlier I had put together a tape piece called simply “Fog” which used ambient sounds from around the San Francisco Bay. That ten-minute piece became the underlying “bed” for the live instrumental parts (six brass instruments, amplified and slightly reverberated).”
The subtitle of outsider Harry Partch’s piece, A Musical Account of Slim’s Transcontinental Hobo Trip, goes a long way to capturing the essence of this novel work, originally composed for voice and Partch’s home-made instruments (played here in an arrangement for Kronos).
The last album released while Frank Zappa was still alive was The Yellow Shark, a live recording created from seven concerts (1992) given in Europe by the acclaimed Ensemble Modern. The project involved a mix of new works and arrangements of older works – 18 pieces for a wide range of ensembles.
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