‘World City’ at the Music Center
‘World City’ at the Music Center
The program brings the world to your seat.
IT WOULD be the vacation of a lifetime: Quebec, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Hungary, Vietnam and Taiwan in one fell swoop. But anyone interested in sampling the cultural traditions and contemporary arts of those countries without having to shell out the cash for an around-the-world plane ticket might want to visit the Music Center’s “World City.”
The Festival of Sacred Music opens at Royce Hall
Waldemar Bastos, Rupayan, the Liän Ensemble and others contribute to a captivating gala concert.
Many Southern Californians still remember the feelings of promise and unity generated by the epochal 1984 Olympic Arts Festival and its successors, the Los Angeles Festivals. Alas, the latter fell apart in the 1990s, but now it is safe to say that the World Festival of Sacred Music — like the L.A. Festivals, a triennial event — has filled some of the gap, tapping into the same yearning for adventure and understanding of common ground among many peoples that drove those cultural celebrations.