{"id":769,"date":"2012-04-23T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/04\/roots-of-a-music-series.html"},"modified":"2012-04-23T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T20:47:00","slug":"roots-of-a-music-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/04\/roots-of-a-music-series.html","title":{"rendered":"Roots of a Music Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE Santa Monica-based chamber series Jacaranda<\/a> puts on some of the consistently most intriguing programs I know. Along with UCLA’s Royce Hall and the Hammer Museum, it’s one of the things that makes me wish I lived on the Westside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Composer Olivier Messiaen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The weekend’s program included a piece by Olivier Messiaen, a hero to some in the group; West Coasters Terry Riley and Lou Harrison works will close out the season. I spoke to the group’s organist and conductor, Mark Alan Hilt, as the latest installment of my Influences column in the LA Times. HERE<\/a> is the piece.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hilt demonstrates some of the issues I’ve discussed in my creative class series on Salon — he, and the series he helps lead, can survive in part due to donors who value what the group does. But it also stands on a scaffolding of education (Hilt runs a student orchestra at a private high school) and churches — a Presbyterian church has been an early partner, and its main venue, since this ambitious series began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE Santa Monica-based chamber series Jacaranda puts on some of the consistently most intriguing programs I know. Along with UCLA’s Royce Hall and the Hammer Museum, it’s one of the things that makes me wish I lived on the Westside. Composer Olivier Messiaen The weekend’s program included a piece by Olivier Messiaen, a hero to […]<\/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":[54,30,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-classical-music","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"category-west-coast","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","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=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}