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The latest:
Is there a Los Angeles musical style? [Front page, Sunday edition!] Mark Swed has thoughts on Hear Now Music Festival on Sunday 5/18, and how this and Tod Machover’s opera ‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ raise the question of whether there’s ever been an L.A. school of music.
Hear Now Music Festival Spotlights Works by Fresh Composers (Review) Charles Burns reports on our April 13 chamber music concert, which he says reveals “the kind of artistic community for which Angelenos could spend years searching”.
Additional articles continue here…
Interviews & Profiles
The Sonic Revolutions of George Lewis; Alex Ross’ New Yorker profile on the artistic director for the International Contemporary Ensemble, and our collaborator for HEAR NOW 2024
Celebrating L.A. Composers: A Conversation with Hugh Levick; Allan Graubard interviews Hugh Levick for the Los Angeles Review of Books
Hear Now Festival Wants to Wake People Up; Tom Jacobs interview Hugh Levick for San Francisco Classical Voice
Critic’s Notebook: L.A. music takes its vitality from the young and old alike at the Hear Now festival
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-hear-now-la-notebook-20190507-story.html
Jessica Gelt’s article from the LA Times:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-hear-now-festival-20180425-story.html
Variety Is the Spice of Hear Now’s Musical Life; Jim Farber profiles the 2018 festival for SFCV
Hear Now Festival is all about L.A. composers; Profile for Jewish Journal by Rick Schultz
Sequenza21‘s review of HEAR NOW 2014’s electroacoustic concert, co-produced with People Inside Electronics: http://www.sequenza21.com/2014/05/electroacoustic-concert-in-santa-monica/
Mark Swed’s review of HEAR NOW 2013 in the LA Times, combined with the LA Philharmonic’s Brooklyn Festival: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-0418-la-brooklyn-notebook-20130418,0,2959110.story
Nick Norton’s interview with our founder Hugh Levick on his blog, New Classic LA:
http://newclassicla.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/interview-hugh-levick-on-hear-now/
Reviews
What Does California Sound Like?; The New Yorker‘s report on the 2023 California Festival, by Alex Ross
L.A.’s New-Music Scene, in Abundance; SFCV offers a joint report of HEAR NOW and Jacaranda in April 2018
Want to hear the real La La Land? Lend an ear to the L.A. composers of the Hear Now festival; Mark Swed reviews the 2017 festival for the Los Angeles Times
Rodney Punt’s review from LA Opus blog (Reporting on Music and the Lively Arts):
http://www.laopus.com/2012/09/hear-now-music-festival-in-venice.html
Richard S. Ginell’s review on his “From Out of the West” blog:
http://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2012/09/04/hear_now_festival/
Russell Steinberg’s review from his own website’s blog:
http://www.russellsteinberg.com/blog/second_annual_hear_now_festival_of_contemporary_los_angeles_composers/
