Careful Where You Point That Thing!; Twelve Tones, Hanging Ten; Hail, Little Caesar; How Green Was My Valley?; Say It Is So; Clippers' Main Man; Mariachis on the Move; The Closer's Closet; The Wagonmaster
John sits in on a masters class in conducting, which was led Jorma Panula of the Sibelius Youth Orchestra. Panula is Esa-Pekka Salonen's mentor.
The New Yorker's Alex Ross talks about his new book, The Rest is Noise, in which classical music revolutionary and So. Cal Dude Arnold Schoenberg is featured.
Hidden away in a basement office at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall is a piano that inspires young musicians: the actor Edward G. Robinson's Steinway. Open up the piano and you'll see signatures of some of music's greats like Serge Prokofieff and Rosemary Clooney.
Kevin Roderick starts a new Off-Ramp series that takes listeners to historical spots in the San Fernando Valley. The first stop? Encino.
John talks to KPCC's News Editor Nick Roman about the newest Dodger, Joe Torre.
As the Clippers' start their NBA season, we meet Ralph Lawler, the broadcast voice of the team for 29 seasons.
Natividad Cano, better known as Nati, closed his restaurant La Fonda on Wilshire Boulevard last weekend. They'd been at the same location for nearly four decades. KPCC's Patricia Nazario caught their final moment.
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There's a uniform for powerful women on TV: well-cut dark suits with designer labels. But there is one notable exception: LAPD Deputy Chief Brenda Lee Johnson on TNT's The Closer. KPCC's Kitty Felde takes us inside Brenda's closet.
A musical tribute to the man who first said, "Hello, Dolly."