‘A Wedding’ at the Lobero Theatre
‘A Wedding’ at the Lobero Theatre
William Bolcom’s comic work, based on a Robert Altman film, is hitched to an exceptional cast in Santa Barbara.
SANTA BARBARA — Every wedding he ever attended was, in some way, a disaster, the late filmmaker Robert Altman claims in a featurette that accompanies the DVD of his 1978 comedy, “A Wedding.” The more wealth involved, of course, the greater the potential for madcap mishap.
Rock the Bells’ raucous roar
The crowd bellows its approval as A Tribe Called Quest and the Pharcyde turn in kinetic hip-hop sets at the annual Devore festival.
You know a music festival is stacked to the gills with talent when Rakim, considered the father of modern hip-hop lyricism, is stuck playing the 2:30 p.m. slot in the scorching San Bernardino summer sun.
Vinyl records makes a return
Music on discs, the big, old-time kind, is popular again. Baby boomers and even kids seek it out. The industry responds.
When the doorbell rings at Monti Olson’s Glendale home in the middle of the night, it can mean only one thing: Jeff Bowers, his partner in Original Recordings Group, has brought new album artwork for him to inspect. “I’ll come out in my pajamas and look it over,” Olson said. “He drives home, and I’ll go back to bed.”
Composer Elliott Carter at 99
As he nears the century mark, the composer delivers new work at an astonishing pace. As always, he experiments. Each piece, he says, is ‘an adventure.’
ON THE morning I visited Elliott Carter last month, he was staying in a red cottage in this quaint village in the Berkshires. Five miles up the road is Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony, which was in the midst of hosting a 10-concert, 47-work festival of Carter’s demanding music. Just down the road from the cottage is the Norman Rockwell Museum.