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Betty Freeman, 1921-2009: Philanthropist and patron of modern classical composers
Tribune NewspapersLOS ANGELES — Betty Freeman, a fiercely independent philanthropist and photographer who supported a Who's Who of modern composers, including John Cage, Philip Glass, Pierre Boulez and John Adams, died Saturday of pancreatic cancer at her Beverly...Tags: Petroleum Industry, John Adams, Los Angeles, Classical Music, Sam Francis
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Betty Freeman dies at 87; art philanthropist and photographer
Betty Freeman, a fiercely independent philanthropist and photographer often described as a Medici for contemporary classical music, who supported a Who's Who of modern composers, including John Cage, Philip Glass, Pierre Boulez and John Adams, died...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Helmut Lachenmann, Photography, Arts, Sam Francis
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George Brecht, conceptual artist with Fluxus group, dies at age 82
New York Times News ServiceNew York Times News Service George Brecht, a core member of Fluxus, the loosely affiliated international group of playful conceptual artists that emerged in the early 1960s, died Dec. 5 in Cologne, Germany. He was 82. He died in his sleep, said...Tags: Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Duchamp, New York Times
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Calder Quartet at Zipper Hall
Music CriticThe young Calder Quartet has arrived. For its program Friday night in the Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School, the box office was mobbed. A throng in hanging-from-the-rafters numbers so crowded a hapless box office that many did not get in in time...Tags: Walt Disney, Earthquakes, Facebook, Los Angeles, Classical Music
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Trisha Brown rigorous but playful
SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNESPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE There's nothing easy about postmodern icon Trisha Brown, whose disciplined yet antic pieces are like abstract paintings, combining carefully textured dance, sound score and visual design in works unified yet bursting with detail....Tags: Dance, Trisha Brown, Robert Rauschenberg, Music
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Words from the past, insights for today
Music CriticSaturday morning, hyperbolic weather reporters here barked out warnings of heavy wind and drenching rain all day. A shower or two did dampen Manhattan streets, but the real New York weather over the weekend was elsewhere. Friday night at the Chelsea...Tags: Movies, Weather Reports, Chicago Lyric Opera, Jasper Johns, Poetry
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Paul McCartney dips into the vault and pulls out a new (old) Beatles track
LONDON Paul McCartney says it's time an experimental Beatles track saw the light of day. McCartney says he wants to release "Carnival of Light," a 14-minute experimental track the Fab Four recorded in 1967 but never released. The band played the recording...Tags: Festive Event, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Music, Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Toy pianos for serious play
Pianist Phyllis Chen worried when she asked André Watts, her mentor at Indiana University in Bloomington, if she could use toy pianos for one of her doctoral recitals. After all, without his permission, the department wouldn't even consider it.
Watts,...Tags: Festive Event, Metal and Mineral, Culver City, Toy Industry, Theater
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Jacaranda series blossoms again
Times Music CriticA Lou Harrison craze has appeared frustratingly just around the corner ever since this poster boy for gorgeous nonconformist California music died in 2003. Friday night Jacaranda, Santa Monica's new music series, opened its new season with a half-Harrison...Tags: Walt Disney, California, Olivier Messiaen, Los Angeles, Classical Music
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John Adams explains how he found his voice in his memoir 'Hallelujah Junction'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWHEN John Adams, the celebrated composer who is to his adopted California as Sibelius is to Finland, decided to write a memoir of his life and music, he realized there was virtually no model for his project. "Most composers," he said over lunch at an...Tags: Ethics, Leonard Bernstein, John Coltrane, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Values
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'Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life' by John Adams
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJOHN ADAMS is the voice of America. His instrumental music, and particularly that for the orchestra, conveys the American experience broadly. He is generous in his interests, which include the maverick Yankee-isms of Charles Ives, the populist strains...Tags: Benny Goodman, Leonard Bernstein, John Adams, Theater, Civil Unrest
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'The Rest Is Noise, Listening to the Twentieth Century' by Alex Ross
Special to The Times[This Book Review originally ran in the Los Angeles Times on Nov. 11, 2007] A unified, comprehensive history of 20th century music is the philosopher's stone of modern criticism: How to transmute such vast, maddening complexity into conceptual gold? It's...Tags: John Adams, Theater, Book, Classical Music, Carnegie Hall
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