The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Symphony Space—a performing arts center in New York City—are among the arts organizations pairing authors and musicians in upcoming programs. For the fifth year of its “Westside Connections” series illustrating links between music and other artistic disciplines, LACO will pair novelists and musicians, with the first of the series’ three programs on September 13 featuring Mark Salzman (Iron & Silk, True Notebooks, Lying Awake) on a chamber music program curated and hosted by LACO concertmaster Margaret Batjer. Remaining programs in the series take place on March 7 and April 15. At Symphony Space, a new three-event series pairing musicians and writers, “How to Get Started,” is set to launch this fall. The series gets its title from John Cage’s 1989 work of the same title, versions of which will be performed on programs featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos and pianist/composer Arturo O’Farrill (November 1); comedian/actor/writer Wallace Shawn and composer/pianist Allen Shawn (November 15); and poet/essayist Robert Pinsky and writer and folk/pop singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding (December 13).
Posted July 13, 2012
