{"id":1047,"date":"2009-11-24T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/11\/the-west-coast-vs-classical-music.html"},"modified":"2009-11-24T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T18:02:00","slug":"the-west-coast-vs-classical-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/11\/the-west-coast-vs-classical-music.html","title":{"rendered":"The West Coast vs. Classical Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SwwjSSts7VI\/AAAAAAAAAiQ\/TXNf4dRv-G8\/s1600\/john-adams.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SwwjSSts7VI\/AAAAAAAAAiQ\/TXNf4dRv-G8\/s320\/john-adams.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>ON Saturday night I took in an intriguing if imperfect <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2009\/11\/terry-riley-launches-west-coast-left-coast-.html\">concert<\/a> at Disney Hall that involved Kronos Quartet, electronica duo Matmos, rocker Mike Einziger and minimalist pioneer Terry Riley. The evening &#8212; with the coolest crowd I&#8217;ve ever seen at Disney Hall &#8212; was the kickoff to the Phil&#8217;s &#8220;West Coast, Left Coast&#8221; festival, which runs for the next several weeks. (Review of show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/review\/VE1117941655.html?categoryid=34&#038;cs=1\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laphil.com\/\">The festival<\/a>, which aims to seek and present what&#8217;s most distinctive about West Coast music, is curated by Bay Area composer John Adams, and I first heard about the festival last year, when I flew to Berkeley to interview Adams about his memoir. In &#8220;Hallelujah Junction,&#8221; Adams writes about his New England roots in &#8220;the era of the clarinet in American music,&#8221; his move to California in the early &#8217;70s, working menial jobs and flirting with experimental and electronic music, and his eventual development of a personal language that nonetheless synthesizes various strands of West Coast tradition. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/music\/times-adamas122109,0,7879454.story\">HERE<\/a> is my interview with the composer. The book, now out in paperback, is a delight, and is a work of not just musical but cultural history. Will be writing more about the festival in this space.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ON Saturday night I took in an intriguing if imperfect concert at Disney Hall that involved Kronos Quartet, electronica duo Matmos, rocker Mike Einziger and minimalist pioneer Terry Riley. The evening &#8212; with the coolest crowd I&#8217;ve ever seen at Disney Hall &#8212; was the kickoff to the Phil&#8217;s &#8220;West Coast, Left Coast&#8221; festival, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,140,147,379,130,378,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-classical-music","7":"category-disney-hall","8":"category-john-adams","9":"category-kronos-quartet","10":"category-la-philharmonic","11":"category-matmos","12":"category-west-coast","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}