Events from March 28 to April 3
This year’s spring production from the CAP/Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater Program is a new drama written by Culture Clash member Herbert Siguenza and staged with a cast of 45 high school students
Known as one of the world’s leading restorationists of experimental and independent cinema, Ross Lipman is also an accomplished filmmaker, writer and performer whose oeuvre has taken on urban decay as a marker of modern consciousness. He visits REDCAT with a program of his own lyrical and speculative works. In person: Ross Lipman.
The legendary vocalist Michiko Hirayama makes her first Los Angeles appearance with a must-hear performance of Giacinto Scelsi's Canti del Capricorno--the spellbinding 20-song cycle written expressly for her between 1962 and 1972. Now in her 80s, Hirayama is one of the last living links to the eccentric Italian composer and poet whose works are seldom performed live in the United States.
Led by celebrated tabla exponent Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, the 7-piece CalArts Tabla Ensemble launches this riveting exploration of North Indian music with an original composition by the pandit. The ensemble’s performance is followed by a set of exquisite classical duos by Chaudhuri and sarod master Ustad Aashish Khan.
