This Week @MusicCenterLA

For another 50 years, the shows must go on! And this first week after our 50th Spectacular is jam packed with options, mainly ones that are getting us in the holiday spirit! Speaking of spirit…

Center Theatre Group opened Blithe Spirit this week at the Ahmanson starring the incomparable Angela Lansbury. What the Butler Saw continues it’s run with only one more week left at the Mark Taper Forum.

LA Phil has four presentations of Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody to choose from, and on Saturday Toyota Symphonies for Youth: Jazz and the Orchestra at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Additionally an LA favorite returns on Tuesday with The Manhattan Transfer Christmas Show.

LA Master Chorale is getting in the holiday spirit with Festival of Carols on Saturday and Rejoice! A Cappella Christmas on Sunday in the Walt Disney Concert Hall. 

LA Opera continues its beautiful Florencia en el Amazonas with a performance this weekend.

REDCAT presents an exceptionally exciting bill for CalArts Winter Dance 2014, as well as Piano Spheres: Aron Kallay.

Ongoing daily throughout the week and all the way through to March is the ASCAP: One-Hundred Years and Beyond exhibit in the Library of Congress Ira Gershwin Gallery at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Free and open to the public!

See you at the Center!

This Week @MusicCenterLA

A little bit of a quiet week with Thanksgiving and all, but still plenty of opportunities to bring your family out for some wonderful highlights at The Music Center!

LA Phil has three presentations of Dudamel & Capuçon to choose from at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in addition to a one night only performance of Tony and Grammy toting Broadway legend Audra McDonald.

LA Opera continues it’s beautiful Florencia en el Amazonas with a performance this weekend.

Center Theatre Group continues it’s run of the 1960s farce What the Butler Saw at the Mark Taper Forum.

Ongoing daily throughout the week and all the way through to March is the ASCAP: One-Hundred Years and Beyond exhibit in the Library of Congress Ira Gershwin Gallery at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Free and open to the public!

See you at the Center and have a very happy Thanksgiving!

This Week @MusicCenterLA

It’s a week of openings, birthdays, and dance! See what we have in store…

LA Opera’s romantic Florencia en el Amazonas opens this Saturday. Will you be there? And more importantly do you know about the Emerald Muse?

An exciting week for the LA Phil as they present Chamber Music Society: All-German on Wednesday with a pre-performance wine tasting. But the highlight of their week is the 10^th birthday celebration of the Concert Hall’s enormous and elaborate pipe organ affectionately known as “Hurricane Mama.” Two programs to choose from: HAPPY BIRTHDAY HURRICANE MAMA: Dudamel Conducts Saint-Saëns and HAPPY BIRTHDAY, “HURRICANE MAMA”: Pulling Out All The Stops in which every one of the 6,134 pipes will be played!

Don’t miss the REDCAT hosting the high voltage dance event that is L-E-V: House for four nights only.

Continuing:

Center Theatre Group’s What the Butler Saw continues playing all week at the Mark Taper Forum and on through December 21^st.

Ongoing daily throughout the week and all the way through to March is the ASCAP: One-Hundred Years and Beyond exhibit in the Library of Congress Ira Gershwin Gallery at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Free and open to the public!

See you at the Center!