Composer of atonal music won a PulitzerLeon Kirchner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of expressive, rigorous, atonal yet romantic music, died Thursday of congestive heart failure at his home in New York. He was 90. A pianist and conductor as well as a composer, Kirchner stood somewhat… Sep 21 09September 21, 2009Article at Los Angeles Times
‘Katie’s Theme’AT NO OTHER TIME in our new century has so much attention been paid to the world premiere of an orchestral work. Too bad it only lasted 10 seconds. The piece in question, by James Horner, the Oscar-winning composer of the film score for “Titanic” and… Sep 07 06September 07, 2006Article at Los Angeles Times
Time to learn the next moveNew York — Four women skitter across the floor, arms held with geometric intent. Another lone woman, exuding a quiet radiance, paces at an angle to them, oblivious. “More like this,” explains Terese Capucilli, rising from her seat against a wall of… Nov 24 02November 24, 2002Article at Los Angeles Times
A Treasure UnlockedNEW YORK — The show is called “Transformations.” In the elegant new gallery space, two stories high and able to vie with any Chelsea art dealership in its spanking-new whiteness and spacious proportions, exhibits from the fields of dance, theater and… Sep 30 01September 30, 2001Article at Los Angeles Times
With an Eye on Her LegacyNEW YORK — A flash of long leg arcs over another dancer’s back like a starburst. Three dancers pirouette like cogs, each one’s turn sparked by the other, echoing the spinning themes in the music that’s thundering from the grand piano at one end of… Jun 17 01June 17, 2001Article at Los Angeles Times
Turnabout for a MuseNEW YORK — Carmen de Lavallade looks like somebody’s muse: tall and beautiful, with wide dark eyes open to the world, hair cascading over her shoulders or twisted, in conversation, around an inquisitive finger, radiating an ageless youthfulness. A… Mar 11 01March 11, 2001Article at Los Angeles Times
Rennie Harris The scene is familiar: young men on a city street, dancing. They spin on the axis formed between head and shoulder, flex their arms in sinuous undulations and perform other feats of acrobatics for the crowd. Some people might… Sep 17 00September 17, 2000Article at Los Angeles Times
Broadway Tries Out PPV AgainNEW YORK — Lights. Camera. Curtain. That could be the cue Sunday, when the Broadway musical revue “Smokey Joe’s Cafe” is shown on pay-per-view to mark the debut of the Broadway Television Network. With an almost five-year run to its credit, “Smokey… Sep 06 00September 06, 2000Article at Los Angeles Times
Reigning Ambassador of All Sounds SwedishThe soprano called “The Swedish Nightingale” was famous the world over for her beautiful voice. In the 19th century, the title applied to the legendary Jenny Lind. Today, however, it fits the blond-haired, blue-eyed and beloved American soprano… May 06 00May 06, 2000Article at Los Angeles Times
Tapping the WellspringNEW YORK — “There are people who take tap class, do a tap dance,” says Savion Glover. “And then there are people who know the dance, who know why they take tap classes. Who know why they do 20 shuffles, or 50 shuffles, before they go on.” Sitting in… Mar 28 00March 28, 2000Article at Los Angeles Times
Taking Spirituality to the Cutting EdgeThe aliens have landed. There are three of them. They are observing the earthlings’ rituals. The earthlings are bringing plates, glasses, silverware to a table, chattering to one another in an intricate duet. This ritual is called “dinner,” but the… Feb 27 00February 27, 2000Article at Los Angeles Times
He Has That Indefinable SomethingOnstage, a lone figure in a yellow slicker harangues in a gibbering frenzy. Now he declaims in stentorian operatic tones, now he croons tenderly; now he slides up to a high falsetto, now he rocks with the amplified backup of an offstage band. His… Jan 23 00January 23, 2000Article at Los Angeles Times
