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16 Episodes 2020 - 2020
Episode 1
Wed, Jul 15, 202056 mins
How integral is arts and culture to a community's lifeblood and how can it become part of the solution? Key cultural leaders from around Los Angeles gather to discuss the role of arts and culture in shaping the world's future. Listen in and understand how civic institutions are re-evaluating their roles in society and re-focusing their energies to become an integral part of rebuilding sustainable and fair institutions for the future.
Episode 2
Wed, Jul 22, 2020
The Industry, one of Los Angeles's most innovative opera companies, continues their acclaimed experimental site-specific productions with a performance that disrupts the dominant narrative of American identity. Featuring an interview with The Industry's Artistic Director Yuval Sharon, the story unfolds as the Arrivals wash up on the shore. They make contact with another civilization they call "the Hosts." And from there, the story splinters, following diverging perspectives. Starting as a procession through the Los Angeles State Historic Park, "Sweet Land" becomes an opera that erases itself.
Episode 3
Wed, Jul 29, 2020
Hosted by Mariachi musician Julian Torres, this episode explores the tradition of Mariachi music and its transformation through time and circumstance. See how groups are finding ways to survive and support one another like Las Catrinas's driveway serenades and Mariachi Aguilas de Oxnard who took to the fields to celebrate farmers. Featuring special performances by La Marisol and Quetzal.
Episode 4
Wed, Aug 19, 2020
Witness the creativity of L.A.'s music scene during COVID-19, from drive-in performances and punk rocker exercise videos to musical tributes to the city's iconic street vendors and food trucks. See how rhythms made from scavenged household items created during quarantine have kept communities inspired and moving to the beat in this episode made in collaboration with dublab. Hosted by Definitive Sound (Def Sound).
Episode 5
Wed, Aug 26, 2020
Tour L.A.'s wild and diverse dance community in this showcase of the city's vibrant scene. See uplifting homages to L.A. by aerial dancer Joe Pinzon and a parking lot turned performance space from Jacob Jonas. Explore how the body's movements can reflect the community's voice for change with Lula Washington and Infinite Flow. Tamica Washington hosts.
Episode 6
Wed, Sep 9, 2020
Experience performances by some of Southern California's most talented high school artists in dance, music and more. Celebrate with them as they culminate a year-long journey through The Music Center's Spotlight program. Hosted by Tony Award®-winner and Spotlight-alum Lindsay Mendez with special guest appearances by Josh Groban, Misty Copeland and more.
Episode 7
Tue, Sep 22, 2020
Welcome to the world and minds of Culture Clash's Totally Fake Latino News, from America's iconic Chicanx/Latinx satirical trio. Enjoy the realness, amigos. Stay Woke World.
Episode 8
Wed, Oct 7, 2020
Join Maestro Carl St. Clair, Pacific Symphony and five world-class pianists as they celebrate the opening of their 42nd season featuring performances by Andre Watts, Christina as well as Michelle Naughton and Olga Kern.
Episode 9
Wed, Oct 7, 2020
Join Mekala Session and the "Ark" as they ring in the new year with a musical celebration in downtown's Grand Park. Honoring the work of Horace Tapscott amongst other musical legends, the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra is a multi-generational band that brings together the legacy of jazz music in Los Angeles.
Episode 10
Wed, Nov 4, 2020
Hosted by artist and designer Rosten Woo, this episode explores how civic art and culture is changing during the pandemic and what that could mean for the future of Los Angeles. This episode opens with Carmen Argote's "Last Light," a meditation of walking and memory in the city. Patrisse Cullors, Alexandre Dorriz and Noé Olivas talk about the origins of Crenshaw Dairy Mart and the relationship between art and abolition. Joel Garcia, Mercedes Dorame and Sandra de la Loza discuss the long road to removing the Father Serra and Columbus statues in downtown Los Angeles, how re-thinking monuments can help the public reconcile with difficult histories and some current projects - a proposed memorial to the Sleepy Lagoon killing and trial of 1942 and a temporary installation related to "Memory is in the Present" at the park between Grand Avenue and Hill Street in downtown Los Angeles. Comedian Kristina Wong speaks about Auntie Sewing Squad, a grassroots effort to sew and distribute face masks. Architect Jia Gu explains how her organization, Materials and Applications, re-organized itself to distribute water to unhoused people in Echo Park during a heatwave. Violinist Vijay Gupta discusses how he is working to keep cultural continuity in Skid Row. Finally, Christopher Hawthorne, Chief Design Office for the city of Los Angeles; Lyric Kelkar of Inclusive Action for the City and Tafarai Bayne, Chief Strategist at CicLAvia, discuss how the dynamics of public space are changing in the pandemic and the need to deeply think about equity in access and use of streetspace in this time of social distancing.
Episode 11
Wed, Oct 28, 2020
Highlights from the Annual Watts Towers Day of the Drum and Simon Rodia Watts Towers Jazz Festivals. With performances from master musicians including Dwight Trible, Kahlil El'Zabar and many more artists, Rosie Lee Hooks, director of the Watts Towers Arts Center Campus, hosts a look back at last year's festivals.
Episode 12
Wed, Oct 28, 2020
With a special affinity for Beethoven, the program features archival footage of Carl St. Clair conducting the Pacific Symphony in movements from Beethoven's Symphonies 3, 5 and 7 highlighting the composer's life during his "heroic" decade of 1803-1813, when his compositions took on an epic quality, often telling the tales of heroes and their struggles. St. Clair shares his personal feelings and thoughts about the man and the challenges that the legendary composer faced with his increased hearing loss as well as takes viewers on a journey of Beethoven's music to showcase the resilience of the human spirit to overcome adversity.
Episode 13
Wed, Nov 11, 2020
Carl St.Clair and Pacific Symphony explore the ability of an orchestra to paint vivid pictures in selections from works that tell a colorful story: "March to the Scaffold" and "Dream of a Witches' Sabbath" from Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique;" Vivaldi's "Winter" from "The Four Seasons," featuring violinist Philippe Quint and Respighi's "Pines of Rome."
Episode 14
Wed, Nov 18, 2020
Aída Cuevas, La Marisoul, Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéllar and special guest David Hidalgo from Los Lobos pay tribute to the legend Linda Ronstadt. Enjoy a duet of "Rogaciano el Huapanguero" with Aída Cuevas and La Marisoul, and "Somewhere out There" with La Marisoul and David Hidalgo. Additional performances include "Por Un Amor," "Los Laureles," "You're No Good," "Silver Thread and Golden Needles" and many more. Aída Cuevas and La Marisoul will share their experiences on the Soraya stage and Ronstadt's influence on their musical journey. They also speak to the legend, Linda Ronstadt, about her family, culture and her career.
Episode 16
Sat, Dec 5, 2020
Capping The Wallis' virtual "Sorting Room Sessions," jazz and blues legend Barbara Morrison, named by NPR one of the "50 Greatest Jazz Vocalists," displays her stunning two-and-a-half-octave range and rich, soulful, musical interpretations in "Standing On Their Shoulders," a musical tribute to the iconic jazz and blues singers Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and Ella Fitzgerald, and the songs they helped popularize. Over the course of her 61-year career, the three-time Grammy Award-nominee has performed with a virtual "Who's Who" of the jazz and blues worlds, including Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Etta James, Johnny Otis, Nancy Wilson, Mel Tormé, Joe Williams, Tony Bennett and Keb' Mo. In addition, Morrison has guest starred with the Count Basie Orchestra, the Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra and Louie Bellson Band, among others.
Episode 17
Wed, Dec 23, 2020
One of pop music's great singer/songwriters, Audra Mae, finds her guiding light close to home. The songwriter behind massive, international hits by Celine Dion, Kelly Clarkson, Christina Aguilera, Avicii and Little Big Town, with solo material heard all over radio, television and film, Audra Mae, somehow found herself in her old backyard. In less than a year, a pandemic changed her audience from a 58,000-plus sold-out crowd at Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden down to two: her 7-year-old twin niece and nephew in Edmond, Oklahoma. Finding herself far across party lines during the turmoil of civil unrest, she felt both home and a thousand miles from it. But in that backyard of her past, a pair of the sweet faces looked up and asked their Mae Mae to sing. "Songs of Joy and Peace," filmed at Beverly Hill's Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts as part of its virtual Sorting Room sessions, grew from that simple reminder that a song can mend the heart, a word can comfort in the face of fear, music can burst in the soul like a belly laugh and love can suddenly feel like the most precious gift. Brand new and just the same all at once. That thousand mile drive she made a million times had become a journey to the heart of things, a real road home. In a holiday season when everything seems upside down and inside out, only LOVE can put everything in its right place.