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Composer Lucia Hwong Mixes Cultural Identity and World Beat Rhythms
Composer Lucia Hwong’s life changed when the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical M. Butterfly sprang forth from a joyous collaboration with playwright David Henry Hwang.
“The success increased my visibility,” she says of critical plaudits she received for her work creating the musical’s score. One critic, Octavio Roca of The Washington Times, declared her music a “bewitching brew.”
Read more: Awakening Of A Goddess
Written by Judy Seckler
Monday, July 19 2010 18:09
Notes from a Classical Pianist
Musicians like Chinese classical pianist Lang Lang develop their affection for music early by embracing how notes create anything—from a song to a symphony. From 5-year-old child prodigy to concert pianist, his journey has become spreading the joy of music and, as he says, its power “to change how the world thinks and acts” wherever he goes.
Read more: Lang Lang
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David Henry Hwang Romances The Word
From the beginning, playwright David Henry Hwang found the theater fascinating because of the way in which words could fill a stage.
“Theater is inherently metaphorical. Film is supposed to be real,” he observes, reflecting on more than 30 years of experience as a scribe of plays, film, librettos, TV and texts for dance. Thus, Hwang’s ideas for characters in a play often come from unexpected places. In a seminal workshop with Sam Shepard, he learned how to write from his unconscious.
Read more: Playwright With The Right Stuff
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Written by Judy Seckler
Thursday, May 06 2010 22:22
Ask saxophone player Ronnie Laws about the thrill of having a sax created in his name, and there’s no hesitation. “A signature instrument is like a high-profile athlete having his own gear,” says Laws. “It definitely has to do with credibility.
Read more: The Singing Sax of Ronnie Laws
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A & L Highlights
George Billis, Founder
Although George Billis has owned a reputable art gallery in Manhattan and Los Angeles for some time, he is a relative newcomer to the art fair world. Three years ago, though, he ventured forth, fou
Paul Morris, Founder and Organizer
The Gramercy Art Fair may be a footnote in New York’s funky downtown art scene history for some, but for Paul Morris, who now runs six international art fairs, it meant more. It was h
Red Rock 23 November 2009, 00.00 Alexis De Mond Designista 
Art selected by Daniel Fine Art Services
The owners wanted to create something new: a resort and casino, removed both conceptually and physically from the frenetic glitz of the Las Vegas Strip. “There is a difference b
Vice President of Design, MGM Mirage Design Group
Sven Van Assche made the hard decision 20 years ago to leave his native Connecticut for the desert horizon of Las Vegas. Fresh out of Yale, where the one-time Art
Bernardo Puccio has been designing private homes and commercial spaces in and around Los Angeles for over three decades. His reputation for creativity, commitment and attention to detail has kept longtime clients loya
John Currin 28 November 2009, 00.00 Alexis De Mond Artists 
John Currin (b. 1962) is a virtuoso painter whose work draws from a startlingly diverse inventory of cultural reference—from Renaissance paintings to porn magazines. His edgy imaginings of women in pneumatic full bloom
Bonhams & Butterfields President Malcolm Barber Rules the Auction House
Malcolm Barber knows how to create the aura of excitement. That should not be surprising; he does it for a living. This afternoon, the president
George Yepes was born in Tijuana, Mexico and raised on the tough streets of East Los Angeles, where he overcame ten years spent in one of the area’s toughest gangs to become, in the words of the New Times LA, “the c
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