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"Illuminating the Chandelier" was a Zoom-specific live performance inspired by Clarice Lispector's novel "The Chandelier," about a woman living in isolation.
Yellowjackets
Members of the Yellowjackets discuss their LA origins and long lasting career.
Juan-Salvador Carrasco incorporates a roll of toilet paper in his performance of “The Swan,” by Camille Saint-Saëns. | Courtesy of “The Red Gate Will Open Again" and the USC Thornton School of Music
Though remote learning circumstances have greatly disrupted Thornton’s performance-based curriculums, “Live! From Somewhere” offers students an outlet to continue their creative processes.
LA Master Chorale - The Promise of Light
High School students from all over Los Angeles submitted their videos as part of the Virtual High School Choir Festival.
Viver Brasil - Celebrating Samba
Take a virtual journey to Brazil to experience samba's jolts of joyful color, thrilling rhythms and communal celebration with Viver Brazil's signature family program, "Celebrating Samba."
The Ark playing at The Immanuel United Church of Christ on January 30, 1977, where they played on the last Sunday of every month for around 8 years. | Courtesy of Mark Weber
Though Horace Tapscott died in 1999, his legacy of music and focus on community burn brighter than ever because of the rising popularity of contemporary jazz artists like Kamasi Washington.
Building exterior, present day. | Andre Roman Medina
A long history of arts and activism at The Paramount Ballroom precedes the work of the Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory. Historically, it has been a source of arts and culture in a neighborhood marked by demographic change and fight against displacement.
Edwin Hawkins Singers at rehearsals for Grand Gala du Disque in RAI Amsterdam | Wikicommons
Gospel music is a form of music born out of intertwining events in religion, politics, history and culture in the African American experience. See a few of its milestones.
Hall Johnson Choir | Courtesy of Shades of L.A. Photo Collection, Los Angeles Public Library ABs10 Gospel
Along with cities such as Chicago and Detroit, Los Angeles has influenced gospel music for decades, but its contributions to gospel are frequently overlooked. Now, that appears to be changing.
Artist Steve Appleton trims a reed | Spencer Robins
In the hands of artists and L.A. River advocates the role of invasive river weed, arundo donax, is questioned.
Samantha Boshnack in her final performance in L.A. | Emma Wang
It may not get top billing, but the jazz scene in Los Angeles is unexpectedly rich. An ongoing L.A. residency for young jazz artists is ensuring that it stays that way.
Swank One at "Don't Believe the Hype"
"Don't Believe the Hype: L.A. Asian Americans in Hip Hop" examines the genre as a tool for “resistance, refuge and reinvention” to represent everything from breakdancing and graffiti to DJs and MCs.
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