![]() The unlikely venue is the Highland Park Ebell Club, just off a stretch of Figueroa Street with restaurants, coffeehouses and bars popular with the young, as well as a hip resource for vinyl, yoga, tattoos and vintage clothes. premiere of Vivaldi’s “Ercole Su’l Termodonte” (Hercules on the River Thermodon) last weekend, with performances running through Jan. He could always surprise and delight, just like the recent exhibition of Picasso’s seldom-seen cut papers at the UCLA Hammer Museum revealed an artist who spent nearly every waking moment making something special.īut in a distracted world overwhelmed by an ever-accelerating amount of data - the latest alarming prediction out of the National Physical Laboratory in England is that the amount of digital information that the world is creating will reach a total of 125 zettabytes (the equivalent of every person in the world owning around 160 one-terabyte computer hard drives) - how do we deal with a composer born almost 350 years ago who wrote untold hundreds of concertos, nearly 50 operas and sizable number of other pieces? Who has the time, the attention span, the resources, the intellectual bandwidth anymore? The old saw is that Vivaldi wrote the same concerto 500 times. ![]() It has never been easy to come to terms with prolific artists.
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