This image released by Lionsgate shows Ryan Gosling, right, and Emma Stone in a scene from, "La La Land." Lionsgate announced Monday, March 6, 2017, that "La La Land In Concert: A Live-to-Film Celebration" will come to the Hollywood Bowl on May 26-27.
Get into the OOVE.That's exactly what the Las Vegas Philharmonic will do for the world premiere of composer Nathaniel Stookey's "Yield to Total Elation" Saturday at The Smith Center.During the premiere, the composer himself will play the OOVE, a one-of-a-kind electro-acoustic stringed instrument created by kinetic sculptor Oliver DiCicco.The OOVE's name was inspired, DiCicco says, by its resemblance to an upright Hoover vacuum cleaner.He likens its sound, "in pure drone form" to an Indian tambura.But "with the handheld pickup" Stookey will employ during Saturday's concert, DiCicco describes the OOVE's sound as "more like Jimi Hendrix."
Not until Friday night, four months late, did the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra open its 2016-2017 Symphonic Series. But after threatened salary cuts prompted a strike from early September to late December, a new contract preserves last season's pay scales for now, with modest increases to come.