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Post by lahela on Aug 17, 2012 9:29:40 GMT -8
last concert I attended was last summer.....Heart and Def Leppard! It was Epic awesomeness!!
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Post by erik on Aug 29, 2012 6:11:00 GMT -8
My fourth trip to the Hollywood Bowl for summer 2012 last night was a mix of the fairy world of Shakespeare, and the debauchery of middle Germany.
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, conductor
Soprano: LAURA CLAYCOMB Tenor: NICHOLAS PHAN Baritone: HUGH RUSSELL
Los Angeles Master Chorale (Grant Gershon, music director) Los Angeles Children's Chorus (Ann Tomlinson, music director)
Mendelssohn: FIVE EXCERPTS FROM "A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM" Carl Orff: CARMINA BURANA
The fairy world of Shakespeare came in the first part with the excerpts from the incidental music that Felix Mendelssohn had composed for an 1843 production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", including the ever-popular "Wedding March." The second part was given over to the debauchery that is part-and-parcel of German composer Carl Orff's 1934 "scenic cantata" "Carmina Burana", featuring the full forces of the L.A. Master Chorale, the L.A. Children's Chorus, and our three soloists last night, and it was book-ended by the always-apocalyptic "O Fortuna" passage.
For the second straight time this year, it didn't cool off at the Bowl; in fact, halfway through "Carmina Burana", a rather hot breeze came up. Nevertheless, it was another good night of music-making in the hills above Hollywood.
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Post by erik on Sept 3, 2012 9:38:52 GMT -8
Last Friday night at the Hollywood Bowl: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra John Williams, conductor Gil Shaham, violin It was John Williams' annual pilgrimage to the Bowl on Friday night, with a whole slew of his music for the movies, including the Usual Suspects (the STAR WARS saga; RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK; SUPERMAN), newer stuff (WAR HORSE), and an appearance by Gil Shaham, one of the great classical violinists of our time, in music for violin and orchestra from SCHINDLER'S LIST and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. The concluding piece (not counting the encores) featured the last fourteen minutes of E.T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL, which featured all of Williams' music, and the film itself being projected onto the big screens surrounding the Bowl interior. As a sidebar, a significant portion of the crowd had light sabers with them too...and don't you want to know why? And last night, David Newman (he of that Hollywood music dynasty that includes Randy Newman) conducted the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in a salute to Paramount Pictures, as it celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2012. The music on the program spanned Paramount's history, from the 1927 silent classic WINGS (the first film ever to win a Best Picture Oscar) up to last year's MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL. Lalo Schifrin, who composed the music for the original TV series Mission Impossible in the late 1960s, was a special guest during the MI: GP part; and though he was clearly showing his age (he is in his early 80s now), he also showed his admiration for the way that familiar theme of his found its way, in a revitalized form, back into the movie-going public's consciousness. That wrapped it up for another summer of music-going at the Hollywood Bowl.
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Post by Kent67b on Sept 3, 2012 10:20:51 GMT -8
Erik, sounds like a couple of great nights at the bowl. I was totally impressed with the venue when Jennie and I went on July 1st. I would love to see the Chicks play there.
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Post by erik on Sept 3, 2012 14:52:19 GMT -8
God knows the Chicks could fill up the place if they felt like performing there. The Bowl's seating capacity is 18,000.
I do recommend, however, taking public transportation, such as shuttle buses. Parking is a real pain in the a** there.
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Ross
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Post by Ross on Nov 5, 2012 11:05:43 GMT -8
been to 3 this last week, don mclean, jack white & thea gilmore.
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Post by erik on Jun 23, 2013 10:47:02 GMT -8
Last night was opening night for the 2013 summer season at the Hollywood Bowl--the 14th annual Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame gala, to honor music education in schools. Four artists were inducted last night: R&B singer Patti Austin (introduced by Arsenio Hall); John Legend (introduced by Stevie Wonder [yes, that Stevie Wonder]); and Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith (introduced by Peter Fonda, whose speech was slightly slurred, making me think he had ingested something before the show, if you know what I mean [LOL]). The whole thing came to a pyrotechnical end set to "Walk This Way." Thomas Wilkins conducted the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra here in a show that included a tribute to the great composer Igor Stravinsky's 1913 ballet "The Rite Of Spring", the "Big Bang" of 20th century music whose premiere in Paris caused a full-scale riot.
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Post by Kent67b on Jun 23, 2013 14:05:39 GMT -8
Mary Jo and I are going to see Patty Griffin tonight at the Fillmore in SF.
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Post by drizzletown on Jun 23, 2013 17:51:23 GMT -8
I soooooo want your life Kent! How was Bjork?
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Post by okiechick90 on Jun 23, 2013 21:53:05 GMT -8
Saw Sheryl Crow last night!
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Post by drizzletown on Jun 30, 2013 8:02:24 GMT -8
Went to the casino on Friday night for a free show.
Maxx Cabello Jr & the Breakdown
He's a phenomenal player & his current keyboardist is amazing too.
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Post by b@@b on Jun 30, 2013 9:11:12 GMT -8
I want to see the Wailers (Bob Marley's old band) at Summerfest tonight but don't think I'll make it. Either way, not so bad because the Wailers come to Summerfest very often on the free stages, practically every year.
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Post by Ross on Jun 30, 2013 13:03:03 GMT -8
last week i went to 3 gigs, neil young with crazy horse, patti smith and leonard cohen.
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Post by hilb126 on Jul 2, 2013 17:17:05 GMT -8
She & Him and Camera Obscura. It was awesome.
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Post by dixiechicksfan on Jul 5, 2013 15:08:53 GMT -8
The Postal Service a few weeks ago!
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Post by james on Jul 5, 2013 15:49:29 GMT -8
I got my tickets for the band perry 30th november in Glasgow.
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Post by DCXMMXVI on Jul 6, 2013 8:47:09 GMT -8
my last 2 concerts were oct. 2011 and aug. 2012. (I know, shameful).
the 2011 concert was reba with band perry and 1/2 of the duo steel magnolia opening. when the gal from magnolia came on, she did the few radio hits they have, and then james otto surprised us with an appearance. he sang the Jamey Johnson tune "in color", which he co-wrote. that happens to be one of my favorite songs. band perry did fantastic! im a huge fan! Kimberly perry took linda davis' place in the duet w/ reba for "does he love you." when reba left the stage towards the end, we knew she would come back because she had yet to do "fancy." but then, they always do an encore performance. sure enough, she came back in that red dress. she had an incredible stage presence. 10/10.
in 2012, it was alan Jackson with an unknown opening artist. YAWN! standing behind a microphone for 2 hours doing song after song with the occasional bad joke/story in between. since it was alan Jackson, the fans were kind enough to laugh. I might as well have just bought his greatest hits album! he very much lacked good stage presence. 5/10.
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Post by soupchef on Jul 8, 2013 18:14:18 GMT -8
My last concert that I bought tickets for was the Goo Goo Dolls and Matchbox 20 (amazing show!), but I also saw Melissa Ferrick for free at Pride a week and a bit ago (also great).
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Post by erik on Jul 10, 2013 6:21:09 GMT -8
Last night at the Hollywood Bowl:
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Kiera Duffy, soprano Sasha Cooke, mezzo Los Angeles Master Chorale (Grant Gershon, choral director)
Mahler: SYMPHONY NO. 2 IN C MINOR (RESURRECTION)
It was just this one single work on the program last night, but that's because its extreme length and emotion necessitated that. Gustav Mahler's massive Resurrection Symphony, with its frightening opening full of chugging cellos and low basses, extremely large orchestration, and large-scale outbursts, was the true definition of an emotional rollercoaster, dealing as it does with issues of life and death, but reaching a huge climax for orchestra, chorus, and vocal soloists (the choral text sung in German, with translations being put up on the Bowl's six HD screens) to depict the resurrection of humanity into heaven. At a length approaching an hour and a half, the Resurrection Symphony was performed uninterrupted (except by a few aerial distractions), and it likely proved emotionally taxing for the 9,500 in attendance. But this same crowd was on its feet at the end, cheering on the orchestra, the Chorale, and the two vocal soloists.
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Post by Tony on Jul 11, 2013 2:22:36 GMT -8
I took the Long Suffering to see Canadian Cooner Michael Buble at The O2 Arena in London a couple of nights ago. 22,000 were there on the night, and he's doing 10 show's there in all. I enjoyed it, he can sing and he interacts throughout the night with his audience, giving all round entertainment. I wasn't sure he could make it work in such a large venue, but with enthusiastic ladies ranging from 18 to 60 all behaving like they have just seen a 'stripogram' made life a bit easier for him!
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Post by b@@b on Jul 18, 2013 19:37:35 GMT -8
This is a little off topic, or outside the rules of what this thread is about... Kind of bumming because tomorrow night Pearl Jam is going to be at Wrigley Field in Chicago and I never prepared ahead of time to get tickets for this event. Kina forgot up to a couple days ago. Yes, event!: because it's Eddie Vedder's hometown that he grew up in and he's a die-hard Cubs fan. So I'm sure the show is going to be special. Reminds me of the time 12 years ago when I wasn't even aware that the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Foo Fighters were together for a concert tour locally. Good God!!
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Post by erik on Aug 9, 2013 6:11:19 GMT -8
Last night at the Hollywood Bowl:
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra James Gaffigan, conductor Helene Grimaud, piano
Beethoven: CORIOLAN OVERTURE R. Strauss: DON JUAN Brahms: PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1
It was a night of music from the core Austro-German repertoire, with Beethoven's highly dramatic Coriolan Overture and Richard Strauss' symphonic tone poem "Don Juan" making up the first half of the concert (this last work a musical setting of a variation on the Don Juan legend written by the German writer Nikolaus Lenau). Following intermission, the great French pianist Helene Grimaud came out to perform the highly charged Piano Concerto No. 1 of Johannes Brahms, in the key of D Minor, and full of extreme drama in its 48 minute performing time. The virtuosity required for the soloist in this concerto remains mind-busting even now, more than a century and a half since it was first performed; and Ms. Grimaud circumnavigated all of this. Gaffigan, the music director of Switzerland's Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, had the L.A.P.O. at its top-notch best as well.
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Post by erik on Aug 30, 2013 6:15:48 GMT -8
Last night at the Hollywood Bowl, it was all about Brahms and Beethoven at the Bowl.
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra David Afkham, conductor Paul Lewis, piano
Brahms: TRAGIC OVERTURE Beethoven: PIANO CONCERTO NO. 3 Brahms: SYMPHONY NO. 2
The young German conductor David Afkham was on the podium for a core Austro-German musical adventure. It began with the dark, brooding D Minor Tragic Overture of Brahms, the overture that the composer described as "the one that weeps" (this in contrast to the self-explaining "Academic Festival Overture" that he composed simultaneously to it in 1880). Afkham conducted this powerful work in stately fashion, bringing all the pathos and mystery of the piece in at under thirteen minutes.
After a short pause for reconfiguring the orchestra, Afkham came back out with British pianist Paul Lewis for Beethoven's equally mysterious and brooding Piano Concerto No. 3. A piece that has similarities to Mozart's 24th Piano Concerto, notably key (C Minor), it takes a lot of skill to handle it, knowing especially how Beethoven, when he composed it in 1802, found his hearing being depleted. Lewis, who had recorded the entire Beethoven piano concerto set with Jiri Belolahvek and the BBC Symphony, handled it extremely well all around.
Following intermission, Afkham and the L.A.P.O. returned to Brahms, this time with the ultra-popular Second Symphony, a work that came much easier for the composer when compared to the twenty years of laboring it took just to get the First in. The work's expansive first movement, with its occasional melodic nods to the composer's much-loved "Lullaby", was followed by the poignant slow movement, the effervescent third, and the triumphant finale in the home key of D Major, all within the average running time of 40 minutes usually required.
That orchestra, conductor, and soloist could keep their concentration during the night was amazing, given that we had four aerial distractions, and the fact that it was very warm and downright sultry. Mr. Lewis did look like he was sweating during the concerto's finale; and it wouldn't surprise me if he was. All around, however, it was another solid night of music making at the Bowl.
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Post by erik on Sept 1, 2013 10:00:43 GMT -8
It was the annual John Williams shindig at the Bowl last night, with an added twist.
Los Angeles Philharmonic John Williams, conductor Julie Andrews, special guest Monica Mancini, special guest
Richard Whiting: HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD Mancini/Mercer: WHISTLING AWAY IN THE DARK (FROM "DARLING LILI") Mancini: MANCINI MEDLEY (Peter Gunn; HATARI!; CHARADE) Mancini: THE PINK PANTHER Mancini/Mercer: THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES (Monica Mancini) Mancini: VICTOR/VICTORIA Mancini/Mercer: MOON RIVER (BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S)
Williams: FLIGHT TO NEVERLAND (FROM "HOOK") Williams: SELECTIONS FROM "RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK" Williams: WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE (FROM "LINCOLN") Williams: THREE SELECTIONS FROM "STAR WARS"
Encores: Williams: IMPERIAL MARCH AND YODA'S THEME FROM "THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK" Williams: FLYING THEME FROM "E.T."
This evening (another hot and sultry one), Williams was on the podium to conduct a swath of music that his good friend and former colleague Henry Mancini composed for TV and films. Most of those selections were from the scores that Mancini composed for Blake Edwards, one of the greatest director/composer relationships in Hollywood history. It included, of course, Julie Andrews (Edwards' widow) reminiscing about the pair's close collaboration, and Mancini's daughter Monica singing the title theme to Edwards' 1962 classic THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES. The lone exception to the Mancini/Edwards rule was a snippet of the famous "Baby Elephant Walk" that Mancini composed for part of his score to director Howard Hawks' 1962 African safari soiree HATARI!. At the end of this first half, both Julie and Monica were each given bouquets of flowers by a man in a pink panther costume (and wouldn't you love to know why? [LOL])
The second half was, of course, all Williams, all the time, with excerpts of music from the Indiana Jones trilogy and HOOK, plus "With Malice Toward None" (from Spielberg's historical masterpiece LINCOLN). The excerpts from the Star Wars series saw an average of at least one out of every six people in the sold-out crowd of 18,000 light up the Bowl interior with light sabers (and wouldn't you love to know why? [LOL]). The encores were from THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, and the famous "Flying" theme from E.T.
It never really cooled off last night at the Bowl (indeed, we've been having Mexican-type weather here in Southern California for the last ten days), but the music was at its typical high-quality best with Williams on the podium with his special guests, and the great L.A. Philharmonic in performance.
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Post by erik on Sept 2, 2013 6:00:19 GMT -8
Last night at the Bowl, it was all about the movies for the annual salute to cinema known as The Big Picture.
Hollywood Bowl Orchestra David Newman, conductor Mary McDonnell, host
John Barry: DANCES WITH WOLVES John Williams: JAWS Lalo Schifrin: BULLITT Max Steiner: CASABLANCA Michael Giacchino: UP! James Newton Howard: KING KONG (2005) Elmer Bernstein: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Ludovic Bource: THE ARTIST George Gershwin: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS Hugo Friedhofer: THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
This year's Big Picture saluted eleven different films that won Oscars, some for their music scores (like JAWS and DANCES WITH WOLVES), and all of them iconic in nature. Scenes from all these films were projected on the Bowl's five LED screens in vivid detail. David Newman, a member of the film scoring dynasty in Hollywood, led the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in each of these scores, with Mary McDonnell offering her introductions to these films, including of course the one that she was in (DANCES WITH WOLVES).
The most unusual part of the night was the sequence devoted to BULLITT, which won Oscars for Sound and Film Editing in 1968. Schifrin's score to this classic Steve McQueen police drama was done in an extended symphonic way (with the composer's approval) by composer and bassist John Clayton to accompany the bulk of the movie's classic 10-minute car chase (in the film itself, the score ceases the moment the pursuit turns high speed). The audience of 14,000 still seemed quite stunned by this sequence, even though that movie was released 45 years ago. And there were the amusing parts too, like with the sequences devoted to THE ARTIST, and JAWS (with its "You're gonna need a bigger boat" sequence).
Some of the heat of the day wore off when the sun set this evening, and the breeze that had been absent from the Bowl the last couple of occasions I had gone had come up. It still didn't cool off too much, though. But the night was good, and the music great. What more could one ask for at the Bowl?
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