Ford Amphitheatre (Hollywood, CA)
The Los Angeles Jewish Symphony performs live at the Ford Amphitheatre. Their program, L'Chayim (To Life), celebrates the music and humor of the Yiddish tradition. Guests include entertainer Mike Burstyn, plus violinist Mark Kashper, clarinetist Zinovy Goro and piano soloist Yevgeniy Milyavskiy.
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it was a fun night. we were at the very back and could hear everything well. We are coming back next year!
This was a quality event the L.A. Jewish Symphony is famous for putting together. The pianist was extraordinary. The emphasis in this concert was lighter-weight fare, perhaps appropriate for summer, but I felt that not all the music was top-grade. The inclusion of the Sholem Aleykhem story seemed anticlimactic and incomplete--I liked the music, but it really had no point except to underscore obedience to parents without question as the highest virtue, and the surrender of dreams of a life devoted to music, which is hardly the kind of message I would want to see this organization promote! Some aural feedback from the Hollywood Bowl across the street was truly loud enough to be disruptive at times. May I be bold enough to suggest this: Stop with playing the national anthems already! I feel like we're living in some kind of hyperpatriotic authoritarian state when I go to a classical music concert (it happened at the Hollywood Bowl a couple of weeks ago also for a Dvorak/Beethoven program), and the first thing the orchestra hits you with is the Star Spangled Banner! I feel like I am being manipulated--socially pressured to stand and be or look and sound patriotic when I had come to this concert in the first place to clear my head of the national chatter that fills the air. And then after the US anthem, Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem! Too much! We weren't at a political rally!
We enjoyed very much this performance. The Los Angeles Jewish Symphony is wonderful and the guest performers were great. We really enjoyed Mike Burstyn..
We can't wait to see the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony again next year.
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The 1241-seat outdoor Ford Amphitheatre is set against a backdrop of cypresses and chaparral in the Hollywood Hills. It is relatively intimate: no patron is more than 96 feet away from the stage. Music, dance, film, theatre and family events are presented during the summer months. The Ford Amphitheatre Season is a program of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
Website: http://www.fordamphitheater.org/en/events/090809_1930.asp
Born in Eastern Europe's Jewish ghettos, the music and humor of Yiddish culture has found fans everywhere. The Symphony - with violinist Mark Kashper, clarinetist Zinovy Goro and piano soloist Yevgeniy Milyavskiy - joins with entertainer Mike Burstyn to toast this great tradition.