CLASSICAL: There's other classical music about town tonight besides Chanticleer. The Calder Quartet is the Colburn Conservatory’s first quartet-in-residence, and these new faculty members will show their chops with a program that includes Philip Glass, Quartet No. 2 “Company” by Philip Glass; Quartet in A minor “Rosamunde” by Franz Schubert and Terry Riley's “Cadenza on the Night Plain.” 7:30 pm // The Colburn School: Zipper Hall // 200 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles //......

A series of animated shorts titled "Geometry of Circles," featuring music composed by Philip Glass, kaleidoscopically tranced out legions of Sesame Street viewers in the early 80's. The clip above features four of these shorts strung together almost seamlessly, even though they were first broadcast separately, in some cases years apart. According to the Muppet Wiki, "Geometry of Circles" dates back to 1979.......

Our Classical Pick of the Week is tonight with the Pasadena Symphony and special guest and timpani rockstar, Jonathan Haas, playing American composer Philip Glass' "Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra." With that in mind, we decided to check out the album that features Haas with percussionist Evelyn Glennie. Also on the album, but not in tonight's concert is the "Concerto for Cello and Orchestra," an adventurously beautiful piece with some of Glass' trademark......

This week, Phillyist saw the waters of a landmark fountain run red for a Showtime marketing stunt, the Phils pull ahead, and some serious nostalgia. They also got a chance to review an awesome tribute album, reminded folks to see the King, and appreciated their beautiful skyline. Chicagoist knows what it's like to like the Cubs. But naming your kid Wrigley Fields? At least they can breathe a little easier now that Grossman's out and......

Artist: Colleen Album: Les Ondes Silencieuses Label: The Leaf Label Release Date: Summer 2007 Colleen - "Sun Against My Eyes" After an insanely hectic week this was the album to listen to. While I'm not a devotee of classical music, I've very much enjoyed this minimalist work by Colleen, aka Cecile Schott. While it is minimalist, it isn't austere as in the style of a Philip Glass or his ilk. Colleen boils the music......

Trace Adkins - Dangerous Man (Capitol) Christina Aguilera - Back to Basics (two CDs; RCA) Carmine Appice - Ultimate Guitar Zeus (Escapi) Patricia Barber - Mythologies (Blue Note) Rory Block - The Lady and Mr. Johnson (Rykodisc) Cham - Ghetto Story (Atlantic) Cherish - Unappreciated (enhanced; Capitol) Philip Glass - "The Illusionist" soundtrack (Rykodisc) Joanna - This Crazy Life (Geffen) Andy Fairweather Low - Sweet Soulful Music (Proper) Maria Muldaur - Heart of Mine:......

At the New Beverly Cinema it's a Takashi Miike double feature, with his new film Gozu at 7:30 PM, followed by the wonderfully depraved Audition at 9:55 PM. Enjoy a Hammer Conversation at 7:00 PM between filmmaker David O. Russell and actress Lily Tomlin, discussing their recent collaboration on I Heart Huckabee's.  UCLA Live features The Bang on a Can All-Stars with Philip Glass, reintepreting Glass's legendary "Music in 5ths and Music in Similar......