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Rick Schultz

Rick Schultz

Kahane’s farewell gift to Los Angeles

Jeffrey Kahane, who steps down as music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) this season, started thinking about a series of concerts and events touching on themes of tolerance, compassion, cooperation and creativity when his tenure, the longest in the orchestra’s history, began 20 years ago.

Recovering classical voices lost to the Nazi regime

“Strip-mining the Jewish musical past, even when done with the best of intentions, doesn\’t serve the goals of remembrance or history,” James Loeffler wrote in a 2013 article for Tablet. Or, he added, of “good music.”

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