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Pencil This In: Tuesday

Pencil This In: Tuesday

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.” more ›

Philip Glass's Sesame Street Concerto

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.... more ›

CD Review: The Concerto Project, Volume I (music by Philip Glass)

CD Review: The Concerto Project, Volume I (music by Philip Glass)

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... more ›

New CDs This Week

New CDs This Week

Yanni - Yanni Live!: The Concert Event (Image Entertainment) more ›

Bang a Gong

Bang a Gong

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. more ›

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