A Trumpet in Every Pot
To kick-off the International Youth Orchestra Festival, the LA Phil unveiled an ambitious plan to start youth orchestras in several low-income neighborhoods in LA County. Queena Kim reports.
Careful Where You Point That Thing!
John sits in on a masters class in conducting, which was led Jorma Panula of the Sibelius Youth Orchestra. Panula is Esa-Pekka Salonen's mentor.
Twelve Tones, Hanging Ten
The New Yorker's Alex Ross talks about his new book,
The Rest is Noise, in which classical music revolutionary and So. Cal Dude Arnold Schoenberg is featured.
Hail, Little Caesar
Hidden away in a basement office at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall is a piano that inspires young musicians: the actor Edward G. Robinson's Steinway. Open up the piano and you'll see signatures of some of music's greats like Serge Prokofieff and Rosemary Clooney.
How Green Was My Valley?
Kevin Roderick starts a new Off-Ramp series that takes listeners to historical spots in the San Fernando Valley. The first stop? Encino.
Say It Is So
John talks to KPCC's News Editor Nick Roman about the newest Dodger, Joe Torre.
Clippers' Main Man
As the Clippers' start their NBA season, we meet Ralph Lawler, the broadcast voice of the team for 29 seasons.
Mariachis on the Move
Natividad Cano, better known as Nati, closed his restaurant La Fonda on Wilshire Boulevard last weekend. They'd been at the same location for nearly four decades. KPCC's Patricia Nazario caught their final moment.
The Closer's Closet
There's a uniform for powerful women on TV: well-cut dark suits with designer labels. But there is one notable exception: LAPD Deputy Chief Brenda Lee Johnson on TNT's
The Closer. KPCC's Kitty Felde takes us inside Brenda's closet.
The Wagonmaster
A musical tribute to the man who first said, "Hello, Dolly."
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