Win Tix to LA Chamber Orchestra's Exploration of Words, Music and Social Meaning

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Poet Robert Pinsky | Photo: Emma Dodge Hanson
For the first time, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra this year is producing a series of concerts, entitled Westside Connections, that take "a look at the connections between music and other artistic disciplines." Last month, former National Endowment for the Arts chairman and Californian poet Dana Gioia took the stage with the music group and next week Thursday three-time U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky will read poetry between Mozart's Quintet in E-flat major for Piano and Winds and Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht (“Transfigured Night”).

The concert is at the new Broad Stage at Santa Monica College at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 5. Tickets run $37 a piece, but we are giving away two pairs of tickets in this contest. To enter, comment on this post with a one sentence poem of your creation (don't think too hard, just do it!). More details on entering the contest are below.

Here's how the contest works:

  • Enter the contest by making a comment on this post. Comments must fit the criteria, stated below.
  • The criteria of the comment is that write a one sentence poem of your own creation.

  • The contest closes at 12:00:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3, 2009.
  • Two of qualifying entries will be randomly selected to receive a pair of tickets to the March 5th show at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. They will be notified via the e-mail connected to their LAist.com login. They must confirm the receipt of the e-mail by 10:00:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 3, 2009 or the tickets will be released to another winner.
  • Tickets will be held at the will-call pick up at the event

Good luck!

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All the lines that fell from your mouth have become my favorite quotes,
and I've honored them each secretly on heart-shaped post-it notes.

Today I went to the store and on sale were chips,
then I went to the dog groomer and paid more in tips.

notes rise like gulls from a polluted beach, connecting air sky water like synapses, drifting down again to rest on their laureates.

        ill-gotten bills,


enter t i m e ma c h i n e,


no regrets.

They were once forgotten,
But now remembered.

do not divulge our guest
of this evening's concert lest
my boyfriend gets wind
of the treat contained in
as poetry is something he detests

I saw you in a glance
I hope that we'll leave the rest to chance

Sheep require one dog to herd them, but lands of celebrity require many sheep to herd one top dog.

flow charts flow but don't go... anywhere.

politicians corrupt air filled with billboards

Big party
getting bigger
an accelebration

Ah to savor the beauty of mathematical rhythms echoing off the walls; voices singing their own visual equivalents.

A tasty bit of tunes,
We listen and we enjoy,
In the Concert Hall.

I spend my days wondering why I don't get a job

a lifetime passed
the only lesson learned in lament
a commoner to most, to me the immortal queen

the coy look of the sweetest fruit on branch, yearning for welcoming lips.

a deep chest of the purest gold, aching to release the mystery inside.

one day there could be peace, a random chance of fortune floated in your path, but the struggle stays, others succeed and you think to youreself.

and she thinks the same question yet as you do now.

i want to win
so i will try.
with a grin
so i wont cry.
to make a rhyme,
so those tix are mine !

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