Ballet & live chamber music paired in Da Camera Society performance
Looking forward to our first glimpse of the American Contemporary Ballet who provide the terpsichorean element to the Da Camera Society’s Music+Dance=L.A. this weekend. The newish ballet troupe, which has planted the flag in the hot arts zone of Los Angeles (directly across the street from LACMA), will perform in a cool warehouse-style setting, to ...
Review: Kenny Barron hits the hoops for Da Camera Society concert
It was a jazz concert in an unlikely locale. Pianist Kenny Barron, whose teammates have included Roy Haynes, Lee Morgan, James Moody, Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson, and Yusef Lateef, unleashed a magical solo piano recital in a boy’s gym. It was the refurbished indoor basketball court of the 28th Street YMCA Building — a glorious ...
Los Angeles jazz history evoked in Kenny Barron concert
I’m super excited to attend a concert by a jazz giant, pianist Kenny Barron, at the historic Dunbar Hotel on Central Avenue in L.A. The event is being staged by the Da Camera Society’s “Music in Historic Places” run by the Society since 1980 – a series of concerts matching world-class ensembles with historically and ...