DIVE IN TO THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL AQUATIC JOURNEY, HALL OF FAME TRIBUTE AMONG SUMMER'S OFFERINGS.Byline: Evan Henerson Staff Writer ``Get the lead out, Hon. We've got to get to that fish concert at the Hollywood Bowl The Hollywood Bowl is a modern amphitheatre at 2301 North Highland Avenue in Hollywood, California, USA, that is used primarily for music performances. The "bowl" in this context is the natural cavity in the earth into which the amphitheater is built, rather than the shape of the .'' That's right. Each summer we expect the Hollywood Bowl to give us the moon, the stars and plenty of fireworks fireworks: see pyrotechnics. fireworks Explosives or combustibles used for display. Of ancient Chinese origin, fireworks evidently developed out of military rockets and explosive missiles and accompanied the spread of military explosives westward to . The 2003 season, which kicks off this weekend with the annual Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame gala, tosses in everything terrestrial and aquarian. George Fenton's ``Blue Planet Live!'' concert (July 18-19) merges music with footage from the BBC/Discovery Channel documentary ``The Blue Planet.'' While listening to the L.A. Philharmonic, Bowl patrons will be treated to what Steve Linder, the Bowl's manager of artistic planning calls ``quite possibly the most spectacular footage of sea life that I've ever seen.'' ``Obviously we don't have time to do all eight parts,'' says Linder. ``We have two large screens. It should be phenomenal.'' Of course, the ``Blue Planet Live!'' is only one highlight in a season that includes visits by artists as diverse as India.Arie, Tony Bennett
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Spike Lee - United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957) Lee, Shelton Jackson Lee and Terence Blanchard will attempt to jazz up July; John Lithgow John Arthur Lithgow (IPA: [ˈʤɔn ˈlɪθɡaʊ]) (born October 19, 1945) is an American actor perhaps best-known for his starring role as Dick Solomon in the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun. and Roger Daltrey will remind us how ``loverly'' the music of Lerner and Lowe is, and Tchaikovsky has his annual date with fireworks. A year to remember Hollywood Bowl Orchestra conductor John Mauceri John Mauceri (born 1945, New York) is an American conductor, producer and composer for theatre, opera and television. He was a protege of Leonard Bernstein.[1] , who just returned from a car trip across the country, has a plethora of national milestones on his mind as he assembles the annual Great American Concert (Aug. 8-9). The year 2003 marks, among other things, the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' flight, the 100th anniversary of the first World Series, Bob Hope's 100th birthday and the 125th anniversary of Thomas Edison recording sound. And, Mauceri notes, the 100th anniversary of the first coast-to-coast car ride. The journey took three months, he says. ``There are so many anniversaries this year, we're still juggling to see how many we can celebrate with music and how many we can just talk about,'' Mauceri says. But let's not Let's Not is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in Boston University Graduate Journal in December 1954. It was written for no payment as a favour to the journal, and later appeared in the collection Buy Jupiter. get too far ahead of ourselves. It's still June, after all. Kicking off the festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. Friday night is an eclectic lineup that includes a masterful musical comedian, Broadway's first ``Evita,'' a tribute to the conductor in Walt Disney's ``Fantasia fantasia (făntā`zhə) [Ital.,=fancy], musical composition not restricted to a formal design, but constructed freely in the manner of an improvisation. In the 16th and 17th cent. ,'' the Who frontman front·man n. 1. also front man A man who serves as a nominal leader but who lacks real authority. 2. Music A leading singer with a group. and the oldest performing comedy duo still in existence. Alex, I'll make it a true Daily Double: Who are the 2003 inductees in the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame - Nathan Lane Nathan Lane (born February 3, 1956) is a Tony Award- and Emmy Award-winning actor of the stage and screen. Biography Early life Lane was born Joseph Lane in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of Irish American Catholic parents. , Patti LuPone Patti LuPone (born April 21 1949) is a Tony Award-winning American singer and actress. Biography Early life LuPone was born in Northport, Long Island, New York, daughter of Angela Louise (née Patti), a college library administrator, and Orlando Joseph LuPone, a , Leopold Stokowski, Roger Daltrey and Tom and Dick Smothers Richard Remick "Dick" Smothers (born November 20, 1939) is an American comedian, composer and musician from New York, New York, now residing in Sarasota, Florida. Smothers is best known for being half of the musical comedy team The Smothers Brothers with his brother, Tom , aka the Smothers Brothers The Smothers Brothers are an American music-and-comedy team, formed by real-life brothers Tom (or Tommy) (born February 2, 1937) and Dick Smothers (born November 20, 1939). They were both born on Governor's Island in New York Harbor, where their father, a West Point graduate and U. ? Daltrey, LuPone and the Smothers Brothers will each perform during Friday night's concert, which traditionally signals the opening of the Bowl annual season. Lane, who is out of the country on a film project, will send a videotaped acceptance greeting. Stokowski died in 1977. A special guest will introduce each performer. I'd like to thank ... ``If you stay in this business, they start giving you awards for longevity. With the Kennedy Center, they wait until you can hardly move,'' says Tom Smothers Thomas Bolin "Tom" Smothers, III (born February 2, 1937) is an American comedian, composer and musician from New York, New York. Tommy Smothers is best known as half of the musical comedy team The Smothers Brothers with his brother, Dick Smothers. , now in his 44th year of performing with brother Dick and still booking up to 140 dates per year. ``Actually, the late Leopold Stokowski is closer to the Smothers Brothers than any of the other ones.'' Ba rum pum! Actually, the man is humbled. Really he is. ``This is the first time in 25 years we've worked Los Angeles or Hollywood proper,'' says Smothers. ``There's a lot of excitement about us coming back to do the Bowl.'' Now in its fourth year, the Hall of Fame concert and gala benefits Music Matters, the L.A. Philharmonic's music education program. Friday's event also includes a performance by 21-year-old singer Josh Groban, Music Matters' spokesman and a frequent Bowl patron during his youth. ``I've been going (to the Bowl) my whole life,'' says Groban. ``I was so amazed and pleasantly surprised at how much Music Matters does for kids, but I didn't fully realize it until I read all the information. When you figure this reaches 85,000 kids in the L.A. area who wouldn't normally get this kind of education, that really is inspiring.'' According to the event producers, the Hall of Fame itself, nestled within the Hollywood Bowl Museum, pays tribute to artists whose achievements embody the spirit of the Bowl. The 2003 roster joins previous inductees John Williams, Garth Brooks, Marilyn Horne, Monty Python, Kathleen Battle, Stevie Wonder, Bonnie Raitt, George Harrison, Randy Newman and Bernadette Peters. A select group - but a distinguished one, says event producer Wayne Baruch. ``(Inductees) need to have appeared at the Bowl, and it needs to have been kind of a major appearance,'' says Baruch, who has produced the past three Hall of Fame galas with Charles F. Gayton. ``The Smothers Brothers first appeared here in the 1970s and have been back several times since. Nathan Lane last appeared here as part of a Broadway tribute, and he knocked the place dead.'' ``Stokowski was the musical director of the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra that was created for him in 1945, and John Mauceri is also conducting an orchestra that was created for him, so there's a kind of nice symmetry there,'' Baruch added. Daltrey, who has performed at the Bowl both with the Who and solo, is scheduled to make two Bowl appearances this summer. In addition to the Hall of Fame tribute, he'll return Aug. 3 for the venue's single-night concert version of Lerner and Lowe's ``My Fair Lady.'' Daltrey will play lovable con man Alfred P. Doolittle opposite Melissa Errico (playing Eliza) and John Lithgow as Professor Henry Higgins. ``He really pursued this role,'' Linder says of Daltrey. ``He came and met with us and said, 'Alfred P. Doolittle was my grandfather. That's who my grandfather was.' So that's sort of exciting.'' For a full lineup of the Hollywood Bowl season, visit www.hollywoodbowl.com. Evan Henerson, (818) 713-3651 evan.henerson(at)dailynews.com FOURTH ANNUAL HOLLYWOOD BOWL HALL OF FAME GALA What: Featuring performances by Patti LuPone, the Smothers Brothers, Roger Daltrey and Josh Groban. Where: Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood. When: 8:30 p.m. Friday. Tickets: $15 to $75. Call (323) 850-2000. CAPTION(S): 6 photos Photo: (1 -- cover -- color) SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE STARS Hollywood Bowl offering splashy splash·y adj. splash·i·er, splash·i·est 1. Making or likely to make splashes. 2. Covered with splashes of color. 3. Showy; ostentatious. See Synonyms at showy. ideas this summer (2) STOKOWSKI (3) DALTREY Jeff Mayer/WireImage.com (4) TOM AND DICK SMOTHERS Lee Celano/WireImage.com (5) LANE James Devaney/WireImage.com (6) LUPONE Jim Spellman/WireImage.com |
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