LOS ANGELES – The Australian Chamber Orchestra played far-flung excerpts ranging from Beethoven and Rachmaninoff to grunge rock in accompanying director Mick Sowry’s film centered on daredevil surfer Derek Hynd.
Read the full story » Composer Steven Stucky, dead at 66, guided new music at both the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics.
LOS ANGELES – Mortality has taken a terrible toll this winter among pop and rock performers from, and just before, the boomer generation – David Bowie, Maurice White, Glenn Frey, Paul Kantner, Dan Hicks, etc. – and the year has barely begun. Now, the classical world has lost someone of that generation suddenly and prematurely. The Pulitzer-Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky, only 66, died of brain cancer on Valentine’s Day – and perhaps no region aside from his hometown of Ithaca, N.Y., has felt the blow as intimately as Southern California. Read the full story »
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