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Print A dirt trail leading up to the Griffith Park Observatory is alive with sound this afternoon. There’s the steady crunch of sneakers on gravel, the whipping wind in the trees; there’s a toddler’s distant squealing mixed with intermittent trilling from sparrows. Then there’s the orchestra. For the record: 4:40 PM, Feb. 22, 2021This post incorrectly refers to the Griffith Observatory as the Griffith Park Observatory. Composer and sound artist Ellen Reid has scored this trail carefully...

For her latest project, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid chose a different type of collaborator — L.A.’s natural environment. "Soundwalk" is free app that allows one to walk, hike or relax at Griffith Park as they listen to a site-specific score.

Courtesy of Sundance Institute The crop of documentaries that premiere at the Sundance Film Festival is always wide-ranging, both in style and in content. And this year’s selections were no exception, even if the 2021 festival was an unusual one, having largely migrated to digital platforms. They ran the gamut from dramatic explorations of refugees’ experiences to funny and heartbreaking looks at American high schools to experimental films about technology’s effects on our lives. The worl...

Kayhan Kalhor is an Iranian kamancheh virtuoso and composer whose work has been celebrated around the globe. Julia Gunther for NPR When Kayhan Kalhor first left Iran, at age 17, he walked — more than 2,500 miles, to Italy. He carried only two items with him: a small backpack and his main musical instrument, the This was during the Iranian Revolution. Kalhor was the only one of his family — who are of Kurdish descent — to leave the country. His parents, fearing the worst for...

The spring 2021 Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts season at UConn includes concerts by Ben Folds, Kronos Quartet, Arcis Saxophone Quartet and Chris Thile and an entire day of discussions about "Amplifying Black Voices in Hollywood."

BILLINGS - Alberta Bair Theater (ABT) has been approved for a $20,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support artistic programming, which will help fund D’DAT, Compagnie Hervé Koubi, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Raul Midón. ABT said these artists represent ABT’s commitment to excellence in presenting diverse disciplines of the performing arts. ABT’s artistic programming is among 1,073 projects across America totaling nearly $25 million that were selected during...

Music in space And back to this one I N THE CASCADE mountains of northern California, a cluster of 42 radio telescopes points towards the stars, scanning for signs of life. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ( SETI) Institute has been listening for a signal here and elsewhere since it was founded in 1984. In that time it has scoured only a minuscule fraction of space, equivalent to a glass of water in all the world’s oceans. But Jill Tarter, its co-founder, is undaunted. A renowned ...

Letters Quiet places | Wombat faeces | String quartets and pop | Downticks Reader Michael Cunningham is reassured by the interest in the shape of wombat faeces, having done some niche research himself. Photograph: Rob Walls/Alamy Reader Michael Cunningham is reassured by the interest in the shape of wombat faeces, having done some niche research himself. Photograph: Rob Walls/Alamy Mon 1 Feb 2021 11.43 EST Last modified on Mon 1 Feb 2021 12.24 EST Perhaps your article 10 of the most tranquil pl...

Composer Jonathan Bailey Holland photographed by Robert Torres There are well-known masterpieces in Classical music we all know and love. But every year, musicians and composers create new music that breaks boundaries. Here are 11 composers you may have heard of, or may be brand new! They represent every corner of classical music from film, jazz, choirs, concert bands and orchestras, string quartets and clarinet solos. You may have never heard of them, but after listening to the playlist, you m...

Andrew Gilbert January 25, 2021Updated: January 26, 2021, 7:35 am Wynton Marsalis kicks off Sonoma’s online series with “The Democracy! Suite.” Photo: Erika Goldring , Getty Images 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has long championed jazz as an art form that embodies democratic ideals, and during an interview with The Chronicle in the midst of Inauguration Day festivities, he often evoked some of the same soaring tropes that poet Amanda Gorman threaded th...