LA Entertainment
The past few nights I've been fortunate enough to catch some very cool LA nightlife events. Last night I went to the LA Philharmonic and heard a performance of Mozart's Masonic Funeral Music, Haydn's Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major, and Shostakovich's death-obsessed Symphony No. 14. The piece from Mozart was only 6 min long but it was completely intoxicating. The way the themes flowed from the violins to the cellos to the bass and back was mesmerizing. And it was over so quickly... but that's okay because it was only a small taste of what's to come: later this month the LA Phil is celebrating Mozart's 250th birthday by performaing his Requiem. Not to be missed.
Hadyn was nice, but Shostokovich was crazy. He built this symphony out of 10 or so poems on death by the likes of Lorca and Rilke. The notes were flying at me like out of control fireworks. That's the best I can do to describe it.
Two nights ago I went to the LA Improv comedy club and saw Sarah Silverman and Drew Carey! Silverman was everything I heard she could be -- raunchy but sweet and endearingly racist in an even-handed satyrical kind of way. One of my favorite bits: older jewish people and young black men have so much in common -- they're fond of wearing jumpsuits, they both drive cadillacs, and all their friends are dying.
Drew Carey was pissed at the government, but who isn't?
