The Music Center is lowering its county flag to half-mast for Gordon Davidson, who died Sunday at age 83. To lose two old Music Center lions at once makes it tempting to talk about the end of an era. The Los Angeles Philharmonic bristled when it had to share what it considered its Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with the Joffrey Ballet and Los Angeles Opera, finally building its own Walt Disney Concert Hall. Companies do continue to collaborate these days, especially the Los Angeles Master Chorale and L.A. Phil. The chorus’ music director, Grant Gershon, will conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic in John Adams’ “El Niño” in December, and Gershon is also resident conductor of Los Angeles Opera.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 04, 2016 23:26 UTC