Catching the Latest French Wave
The Wave Film Festival, presented at the Riviera Theatre by the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, returns with a slate of respected recent French cinema.
Author: Josef Woodard
Review | Rite Night
Music Academy of the West’s orchestral concert offers a stunning take on Stravinsky’s rocking Rite of Spring.
Prophetic Mash-Up Artist
Prints by iconic American artist Robert Rauschenberg at SBMA resonate with the contemporary pulse.
Review | Knight of White Satin Pop
Moody Blues frontman Justin Hayward delivers the romantic/nostalgic goods at the Lobero.
Film Review | Papal Sins in Period Piece Form
With ‘Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara,’ Italian director Marco Bellocchio delivers a period piece exposing Pius IX’s cruel reign.
ON the Beat | Denk Thinks, Feels Ives
In Music Academy of the West News, pianist and affable thinker Jeremy Denk memorably unpacked Ives’ “Concord Sonata,” leans into duet with Joshua Bell on Monday.
Heroic Birth of a Short-Lived Orchestra
Music Academy of the West’s Academy Festival Orchestra, led by Maestro Osmo Vänskä, kicked off the summer series with Wagner/Mahler/Sibelius power menu.
Latin Jazz Royalty Back in the House
Veteran conguero and Latin jazz bandleader Poncho Sanchez returns for some “Jazz at the Lobero.”
Slices of Latinx Life, Cali-Style
Latinx life in California, in all its variety, is the thematic core of Solvang’s Elverhøj Museum exhibition “Under the Same Sun: From Low Riders to Farm Workers.”
ON the Beat | Academy Update, in Name and Musical Deeds
The Music Academy of the West kicks up some serious music heels, Elvis and Daryl square off at the Bowl.
