Music
Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles takes a knee
July 3, 2018A ten-year landmark has just passed in this city. Only a few thousand people took notice of it, but wow, did they stand up and cheer!
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‘Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe’ recalls Chicano movement in East L.A.
April 2, 2018Los Lobos may have had its most successful tune in “Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe,” and now you can experience a remount of a musical play by that name that features Los Lobos songs as performed...
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“Israel in Egypt”: A Handel oratorio propagandizes for colonialism and war
February 15, 2018The context for this problematic work, subject to pointed discussion on musical, historical, political, theological and territorial grounds, has to be more transparent. Vague references to the generalized global exile and refugee experience simply looks like...
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Machinists spearhead ‘new wave’ of union music for working people
February 8, 2018"The hard part is getting people to listen (to the labor songs on the CDs) to the message. But music is a great communicator.”
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“Django”: A world-renowned jazz musician in wartime
January 26, 2018This new feature captures a few months in the life of world-famous Belgian-French Gypsy jazz guitarist and composer Django Reinhardt.
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