By Isiah REYES The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and the Beverly Hills Temple of the Arts presented “Bestemming,” a cello and orchestra concerto composed by Sharon Farber honoring 89-year-old actor and Holocaust survivor Curt Lowens at the Shaban Theatre in Beverly Hills on June 13. Lowens is perhaps most notably known for saving […]
By Ted AYALA Local music lovers may best know Maksim Velichkin as a cellist. His performances – broadly expressive and always gauzed in a rich, oaken tone – are known well. He can be seen at the front desk of the Santa Cecilia Orchestra’s cello section one afternoon. Next thing, he is at a solo […]
One would never suspect that the black and chrome Harley-Davidson Softail Deuce parked in front of California DanceArts in La Cañada belonged to the composer of a new ballet. And when Dwight Bernard Mikkelsen walks into a rehearsal with long hair, tattoos, an earring, jeans, leather boots and a denim vest covered with patches, he […]
Glendale Arts will celebrate the completion of the landmark Alex Theatre’s multi-million dollar expansion and renovation with Emmy and Tony award-winning performer Martin Short. Short joins artistic director and conductor Matt Catingub and the Glendale Pops Orchestra for a special evening of comedy, music, song and dance at the Theatre’s grand reopening on Saturday, June […]
By Susan JAMES A new exhibition of costume sketches from the Golden Age of Hollywood in the collection of Christian Esquevin has just opened at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. Running through Nov. 1, over 100 original sketches of costumes from the late 1920s through the ‘60s created by such […]
Photo by Molly SHELTON Charlie Hunnam, left, and Tommy Flanagan on set in Montrose last Friday as “Sons of Anarchy,” the FX series, films an episode. Montrose is frequented by filming, and SOA regularly uses Montrose as a location.
Broadway, television and film actor, Holocaust survivor and hero of the Dutch Resistance, Curt Lowens will appear as the narrator in Sharon Farber’s “Bestemming: Concerto for Cello, Orchestra and Narrator” on Friday, June 13 at the Beverly Hills Temple of the Arts at the Saban Theatre. The performance will feature acclaimed cellist Ruslan Biryukov as […]
By Charly SHELTON Not everyone likes “Family Guy” humor – the cutaways, the crude language, the non-sequiturs. But you have to admit that the social commentary of some of those jokes is very apt. That is perhaps the best summation of “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane’s new movie, “A Million Ways to Die in the […]
By Susan JAMES On a spring day in April 1229, a Greek Orthodox priest named Johannes Myronas wrote his name carefully on the first page of a prayer book that he had created as a presentation gift. Myronas lived in a monastery in Jerusalem where parchment for his prayer book was scarce. So Myronas recycled. […]