{"id":773,"date":"2012-04-05T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/04\/the-roots-of-leila-josefowicz.html"},"modified":"2012-04-05T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T16:53:00","slug":"the-roots-of-leila-josefowicz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/04\/the-roots-of-leila-josefowicz.html","title":{"rendered":"The Roots of Leila Josefowicz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I EXPECT I&#8217;m not the only one looking forward to the concert at Disney Hall tonight, which continues over the weekend: the new Philip Glass symphony, in its West Coast premiere, with\u00a0John Adams&#8217; Violin Concerto,\u00a0both conducted by Adams himself. And the violin part in the Adams piece &#8212; some days, my favorite piece by the bearded Bay Area composer &#8212; will be played by the lovely and talented Leila Josefowicz, a longtime interpreter of Adams&#8217; work.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-GWarsUrCosc\/T33bajfAQnI\/AAAAAAAABSo\/H86uqJ2X8hI\/s1600\/Leila.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"181\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-GWarsUrCosc\/T33bajfAQnI\/AAAAAAAABSo\/H86uqJ2X8hI\/s400\/Leila.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The violinist is the latest subject of my <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2012\/04\/influences-violinist-leila-josefowicz.html\">Influences<\/a> column. She speaks about some fellow classical figures (including former LA Phil conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen) as well as her love of Led Zeppelin and Ian McEwan.<\/p>\n<p>Josefowicz has also become an important force in playing and commissioning contemporary classical pieces &#8212; she explains the origins of that impulse and tells me why she considers it important.<\/p>\n<p>See you at the Phil tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/leilajosephowicz.com\/\">LeilaJosephowicz.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I EXPECT I&#8217;m not the only one looking forward to the concert at Disney Hall tonight, which continues over the weekend: the new Philip Glass symphony, in its West Coast premiere, with\u00a0John Adams&#8217; Violin Concerto,\u00a0both conducted by Adams himself. And the violin part in the Adams piece &#8212; some days, my favorite piece by the [&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":[54,140,147,130,38,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-773","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-la-philharmonic","10":"category-rock-music","11":"category-west-coast","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","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=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}