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Live World Music: "India Calling!" at the Hollywood Bowl
By Don Heckman Indian culture has created one of the world’s most sophisticated forms of musical expression. The raga/tala system, with its juxtaposition of ragas (similar to, but far more compl… more →
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Live World Music: "India Calling!" at the Hollywood Bowl
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wrote 3 months ago: By Don Heckman Indian culture has created one of the world’s most sophisticated forms of music … more →
Live World Music: Ceu, Andrea Ferraz, Patrizia Laquidara at the Roxy
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wrote 5 months ago: By Devon Wendell It was Brazil across the board at the Roxy Friday night, with a program featuring t … more →
Live World Music: Goran Bregovic and his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra at Royce Hall
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wrote 6 months ago: By Don Heckman UCLA Live couldn’t have made a better choice to wrap its 2008-2009 concert series tha … more →
Live: Lila Downs at Royce Hall
wrote 8 months ago: By Don Heckman Lila Downs is a performer in her prime. Her appearance in a UCLA Live program at Ro … more →
Live - World Music: The Klezmatics
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wrote 10 months ago: By Don Heckman The Klezmatics have become, over the past two decades, one of the music world’s … more →
Jon Hassell and the Art of Suggestion
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wrote 10 months ago: Jon Hassell; photo by Jenafer Gillingham by Casey Dolan Jon Hassell has built a lauded career by pla … more →
Live:Takacs, Muzsikas, Sebestyen and Bartok
wrote 1 year ago: By Don Heckman Bela Bartok was an ethnomusicologist before the term was invented. His early 20th ce … more →
Live: Global Drum Project
wrote 1 year ago: By Don Heckman At first glance, the drum-filled stage at Royce Hall Thursday night for UCLA Live … more →
Live: A Celebration of Rumi -- The Sights and Sounds of Mystic Persia
wrote 1 year ago: By Don Heckman Poetry has been an essential element in Persian/Iranian culture for eons, a refuge in … more →
Live: Bossa Goes Gold
wrote 1 year ago: By Don Heckman Bossa nova at the half century mark? Can it really be true? The floating, rhythmic … more →
