Three people recently named to high-profile L.A. arts positions — “Gustavo Dudamel, set to take the baton at the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2009; Miguel Angel Corzo, in the newly created post of president and chief executive at the Colburn School; and Olga Garay, recently named general manager of the municipal Department of Cultural Affairs” — “have one thing in common: They all identify themselves as Latino.” The changes they bring to the city may well include more Latin programming.
Tag: 09.09.07
Funeral Watched By Masses Reflects Pavarotti’s Reach
“Luciano Pavarotti, the Italian tenor, was eulogized on Saturday as a ‘great artist’ with ‘a profound sense of humanity’ in the same cathedral where he once sang in the children’s choir.”