Yuval Sharon and the Industry celebrate opera at the Bradbury Building: L.A. arts and culture this week
LA TimesThe avant-garde opera company the Industry threw a feel-good bash at downtown L.A.’s historic Bradbury Building last week. Called the “Decade Party,” the evening was dedicated to honoring founder Yuval Sharon, who has risen to become one of the opera world’s best-known innovators and a MacArthur fellow while radically transforming how the city — and other opera creators — view the art form. thesoraya.org ‘Seeds of Resistance’ Last year, Times columnist Steve Lopez described Father Greg Boyle of Homeboy Industries as “the patron saint of second chances.” This year, Boyle is among the four community leaders who are the subject of short plays written by students from Roosevelt High School’s Math, Science and Technology Magnet Academy. redcat.org — Ashley Lee The week ahead: A curated calendar MONDAY Foster the People Mark Foster’s band tours behind its fourth studio album, “Paradise State of Mind.” 7 p.m. Monday, The Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana; 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Hollywood Palladium, 6215 Sunset Blvd. Times classical music critic Mark Swed tells the story of two young pianists, both with Russian backgrounds: Alexander Malofeev, who played a recital in the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall as part of the UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures series; and Alexandre Kantorow, who made his Los Angeles Philharmonic debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall as a soloist in Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.” This new generation of talent is ascendant, writes Swed, noting that both men are “exceptional virtuosos.” Enjoying this newsletter?
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