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Article: In review: Los Angeles
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- Opera News
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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CopyrightCopyright Metropolitan Opera Guild, Incorporated Mar 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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For all its reputed stronghold on Tomorrowland's cutting edge, Los Angeles maintains a tidy scrapbook of its remarkable, unlikely past. Lately, for example, its musical establishment has enjoyed a fine nostalgic wallow in memories of the days when giants walked its earth - when Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, the last century's pivotal musical innovators, shared a small parcel of high-rental turf while feigning oblivion of each other's presence. Last season was Stravinsky's turn, with a festival of his works familiar and not-so, sparked by the Los Angeles Philharmonic but nicely buttressed by other local musical institutions, that to everyone's surprise drew a month's worth of ...