http://www.FineArtsLA.com Music, Opera, Ballet and Museums in Greater Los Angeles Wed, 14 May 2008 21:56:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en FineArtsLA.com has found another way to help build a community of younger and hipper music and arts fans in Los Angeles through the acquisition of a Facebook account. For those interested in keeping up with the latest Forty Unders concert and ballet giveaways and beating the rush for free tickets, ... http://www.FineArtsLA.com/lets-facebook-the-music-and-dance.html Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra presents an original multi-media event, "SEDUCTION AND DESPAIR," directed by and starring Academy Award nominee John Malkovich on Saturday, May 3, and Sunday, May 4, at Barnum Hall Theatre, 601 Pico Blvd, in Santa Monica. From a libretto by Michael Sturminger, Malkovich enacts the true story ... http://www.FineArtsLA.com/seeing-john-malkovich.html Funding is the most challenging fact of life for most of the smaller - and a number of the larger - arts organizations represented on this site. Though it beats working in a factory or - egad - a corporation, a career in the arts must still pay for little ... http://www.FineArtsLA.com/grant-writing-workshop.html "It was like wrestling a wild animal," says Bulgarian-born Katia Popov, of the first time she attempted to play her historic violin. "It took months - in the end, I did not master the instrument. Instead, it taught me to play better." Audiences can hear the collaborative result of Katia Popov ... http://www.FineArtsLA.com/katias-wild-violin.html "It is everything I know about classical ballet, in 13 minutes," said George Balanchine of his "Allegro Brillante," set to music of Tchaikovsky. The tour de force for five couples enters the repertory of The Los Angeles Ballet as part of the LAB Summer Repertoire 2008, for five performances from April ... http://www.FineArtsLA.com/la-ballet-summer.html “Music critics are not only a dying breed,” Alan Rich told FineArtsLA in our first story a year ago, “we’re an endangered species.” How prophetic that statement was, now that the owners of the LA Weekly have decided to ax Rich's column. LA Observed reports: Another local music critic down, not many left ... http://www.FineArtsLA.com/la-weekly-cuts-alan-rich.html In the wake of ABT's migrating swans last week, a small inner-city dance academy in the heart of Compton won honors and recognition of excellence. Compton is more known for gangster rap than for ballet. Carol Bristol-Henry and Compton Dance Theatre received the Addie Patterson Award for Outstanding Service in Community Development ... http://www.FineArtsLA.com/urban-renewal.html American Ballet Theatre is recognized as one of the world’s great dance companies. Considered a living national treasure since its founding in 1940, ABT is the only major cultural institution to annually tour the United States. Probably the most representative of American ballet companies, during its nearly 70-year history the ... http://www.FineArtsLA.com/great-lake.html You may have noticed a new byline at the bottom of stories recently. Or the fact that we're posting new content more than once a month. Indeed FineArtsLA has a new managing editor: Penny Orloff. She will take over the everyday tasks of the site while founder Christian M. Chensvold steps ... http://www.FineArtsLA.com/penny-for-your-thoughts.html Though she plays 18th-century music on an 18th-century violin, Dutch violinist Janine Jansen’s trailblazing digital success sets the bar for 21st-century marketing and sales of classical music. England’s The Independent calls her “Queen of the Downloads.” She is “an artist for the iPod era,” raves Germany’s Der Spiegel. Jansen’s 2005 Decca ... http://www.FineArtsLA.com/queen-of-the-downloads.html