L.A. Opera Music Director Conducts Works by Nazi Regime Survivor Walter Arlen
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (Beverly Hills, CA)
Los Angeles Opera music director James Conlon is known for championing 20th-century composers whose careers and lives were cut short by the Third Reich. Now, in his debut at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Conlon conducts musicians from the Colburn School as they perform the works of composer and former Los Angeles Times music critic Walter Arlen, who escaped Vienna as the Nazis entered Austria in 1938. Inspired by such fascinating works as the Dead Sea Scroll, the Psalms of David and the poetry of Polish national Czeslaw Milos, Arlen’s compositions are lyrical, beautiful and too-seldom heard.
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