Tag: The Music Center
How is the health of local legit theater? Challenges confront Center Theatre Group and others
Theaters large and small in Los Angeles are facing post-pandemic and other challenges. Very close by, on Santa Monica Boulevard west of Vine Street to about Hudson Avenue, is “Theatre Row” — a bustling center for theater performance and acting instruction for 50 years. The district received official City of Los Angeles designation in 2015. […]
Music Center Plaza reopens with flair, fanfare
An Indian chief joined civic leaders at a lavish four-day unveiling of The Music Center “Plaza for All.” The event also included cumbia dancing until midnight with Dance DTLA, a sing-along with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and a Dodgers baseball away game shown live on LED screens. The party, held over Labor Day weekend, […]
Book chronicles Philharmonic leaders
Long before the humble star power of Gustavo Dudamel. Before the flamboyant and youthful Zubin Mehta. Before them both was the early orchestra’s eccentric founder William Andrews Clark, Jr. The philanthropist was often not accepted by high society (showing up at breakfast naked raised some eyebrows, for instance). Clark loved music, though, and he would […]
Local resident named semifinalist in ‘Spotlight’ at Music Center
Park La Brea resident Isabella Franco is among the 111 high school students named as semifinalists in the Music Center’s 29th annual “Spotlight” program. Approximately 1,300 students auditioned for the scholarship and arts training program, which names semifinalists in seven categories, including acting, ballet, non-classical dance, classical voice, non-classical voice, classical instrumental and jazz instrumental. […]
Landmark Chandler estate sells for $9.5 million
The sale of the landmark home on Lorraine Blvd. home in Windsor Square for $9.5 million (listed for $10.6 mllion) marks one of the highest-priced transactions in the area. The home was one of the first to be built in the neighborhood which was being promoted as “an ideal location for the permanent residence of […]
