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Author Archives: Lynn Chu
Movie Review: “The Intouchables”
It was a bet: to get the cop car to escort them to the emergency room.
The same cop car that was not only tailing them for reckless speeding but also suspecting the two passengers to be fleeing criminals.
Patient-physician dynamic get dramatic treatment in Emotion Theater Project Performances
The room is still and oddly silent as the doctor breaks the news to his patient. Heart failure. Transplant. Surgery. Although the two exchange words, there is an expanding distance between their thoughts and emotions as the patient feels the world spinning beyond his control.
2012 Spring Sing's solos and duets to feature a former winner and several new performers
From the Grammy Museum and the Roxy Theatre to high school auditoriums and living room spaces, this year’s Spring Sing soloists and duos have performed just about everywhere. But for many, this will be their first time on the stage of the Los Angeles Tennis Center.
Music Industry 105, which invites famed songwriters as guest speakers, to be public to UCLA community
Sitting center stage with flashcards in hand, David Leaf, a professor in UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, moderates a discussion of his Music Industry 105 course with a renowned rock “˜n’ roll songwriting legend, who is comfortably seated in front of the piano, wearing jeans and a casual button-down shirt.
Artist Meredith Monk returns to UCLA for a weeklong residency
Equipped with the power of voice alone, Meredith Monk mimics the sounds of acoustic percussions and creates haunting vocalizations, techniques that have gone on to influence musicians like Bjork, DJ Spooky and Lukas Ligeti.
Electronic duo Justice returns to Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival for a third time
Justice first surfaced in the music scene back in 2007 when the group swept audiences with its hit sensation “D.A.N.C.E.” With their recently released album “Audio, Video, Disco,” Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay are ready to come back with a new set list, new production and renewed vigor as they take on their North American tour and this year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival for the third time.