Christopher Rountree, 36, who has emerged as one of L.A.’s leaders in the new-music scene, at Descanso Gardens. “Look, over there — there’s an elf in that tree,” Rountree’s mother would say, and he would happily run after it, chasing fantasy and magic in the picturesque La Cañada Flintridge gardens. “Silence” is, in many ways, representative of Rountree’s curatorial style: …
