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The Hollywood Bowl is about
to re-open their Classical Tuesdays & Thursdays series (20 events, July
through September) featuring world’s most renowned artists. Few of them
you really don’t want to miss.
Established by composer Philip Glass, the Philip Glass Ensemble
(@ Hollywood Bowl on July 23rd) held its first performance in
May 1969 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Embraced
first by the visual art community working in SoHo in the early 1970s,
early concerts by the Philip Glass Ensemble were considered visual as
well as musical events and were often performed in art galleries, artist
lofts, and museum spaces rather than traditional performing art centers.
Since that time, the members of the PGE are recognized as the premiere
performers of Philip Glass’ compositions and continue to be an inspiration
for new work. Over the past 30 years, the group has performed on four
continents in some of the world’s most prestigious music festivals and
concert venues. Philip Glass himself is a graduate of
the University of Chicago and the Juilliard School, strongly influenced
by eastern world music (particularly Indian). He wrote a large collection
of new music for his performing group, the Philip Glass Ensemble, and
for the Mabou Mines Theater Company, which he co-founded. This period
culminated in Music in Twelve Parts, followed by the landmark opera, Einstein
on the Beach, created with Robert Wilson in 1976.Since Einstein, Glass
has expanded his repertoire to include music for opera, dance, theater,
chamber ensemble, orchestra, and film. His score for Martin Scorsese’s
Kundun received an Academy Award nomination, and his score for Peter Weir’s
The Truman Show won him a Golden Globe. His film score for Stephen Daldry’s
The Hours received Golden Globe, Grammy, and Academy Award nominations,
along with winning a BAFTA in Film Music from the British Academy of Film
and Television Arts. The critically acclaimed films The Illusionist and
Notes on a Scandal were released in 2006, with Notes earning Glass an
Oscar nomination for best original score.
PecaDu is a young, dynamic, Israeli percussion duo that
has already generated worldwide interest and enthusiasm through their
unique style of virtuoso, energetic, and intense playing. Their repertoire
consists of compositions written by the duo itself, percussion arrangements
of classical pieces by Bach, Chopin, Ravel, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, and others,
and original contemporary music written by Israeli composers such as Avner
Dorman, Yaron Gottfried, and Lior Nabok, and composers in the international
music scene such as Per Nørgård (Denmark), Nigel Westlake (Australia),
Anders Koppel (Denmark), and Salvator Brotons (Spain). Dorman’s “Spices,
Perfumes, Toxins!” West Coast Premiere and Symphony No.5 by Mahler are
going to be performed by percussion duo and conducted by Marin Aslop on
July 28th.
Placido Domingo, the best known for his achievements
on the opera lead vocal field has sung 124 different roles, more than
any other tenor in the annals of music, with at least two new roles planned
in the next three seasons. He sings in every important opera house in
the world and has made an unparalleled number of recordings, of which
101 are full-length operas, often recording the same role more than once,
and for which he has earned nine Grammys and two Grammys in the newly
established Latin Division. As a conductor, he has led opera performances
in all the important theaters, from the Metropolitan to London's Covent
Garden and the Vienna State Opera, and has conducted purely symphonic
concerts with such renowned orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic, the
London Symphony, and the Chicago Symphony. He has also made recordings
as a conductor.
Yo-Yo Ma was born in 1955 to Chinese parents living in
Paris. He began to study the cello with his father at age 4 and soon came
with his family to New York, where he spent most of his formative years.
Later, his principal teacher was Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School.
He sought out a traditional liberal arts education to expand upon his
conservatory training, graduating from Harvard University in 1976. He
has received numerous awards, including the Avery Fisher Prize (1978),
the Glenn Gould Prize (1999), the National Medal of the Arts (2001), the
Dan David Prize (2006) and the Sonning Prize (2006). One of his best known
to the global public and most innovative projects was J.S. Bach cello.
The Cello Concerto by Dvorak and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 with Yo-Yo
Ma on the lead instrument and conducted by Placido Domingo will be performed
@ Hollywood Bowl on August 25th.
All of the above mentioned concerts will be supported by Los Angeles
Philharmonic Orchestra.
