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LA WEEKLY LA | M - , | | M GO WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM PHOTO BY ANNIE LEIBOVITZ/COURTESY HAUSER & WIRTH LA3/22 the gallery hosts three nights of free screenings, A RT ing with the Memphis Soulphony in support fri MUSIC presenting classics of 1970s cinema, chosen by of Memphis … Yes I’m Ready, her aptly titled Leibovitz to express her abiding love for the Knowledge Is Power new collection of tributes and makeovers of CDPH-T00001327 More Than Mrs. Lennon early inuence of the California ethos on the e Broad’s spring blockbuster “Soul of a Na- classics that have dened the Memphis sound, Yoko Ono was a respected artist long before development of her sensibility. I Still Dream tion: Art in the Age of Black Power, 1963-1983” Bridgewater hits the Wallis in an elegant but she fell in love with a British pop star, but her About California oers Francis Ford Coppola’s oer masterworks by an inuential yet too exuberant tribute to Tennessee hot sauce. “I’m playful and inventive work was sometimes e Conversation, Robert Altman’s e Long oen underrepresented generation of black really excited to come to the Wallis,” Bridgewa- overshadowed by the mania surrounding Goodbye and Roman Polanski’s Chinatown. artists. Tthis art historical curation is also ter tells the Weekly. “For an artist, this has fast TM John Lennon. In recent years, though, crit- Hauser & Wirth, 901 E. ird St., downtown; the occasion for a timely and foundational become one of L.A.’s most prestigious music Welcome to Stylus ical and popular consensus has shied to a u.-Sat., March 21-23, 8 p.m.; free with reg- teach-in on the history of America. In a move venues. Add in a rst-class locale like Beverly long-overdue appreciation of the variety of istration. hauserwirth.com/events/23913- that celebrates both the educative aspects of Hills and it’s hard to imagine hitting a higher creative expressions by the Japanese-American still-dream- california-lm-series-organized- the exhibition and its deep local roots, today n ot e .” e Wallis, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., multimedia artist. A member of the original annie-leibovitz. SHANA NYS DAMBROT sees not only the L.A. debut of the show at the Beverly Hills; Sat., March 23, 7:30 p.m.; $25- Fluxus movement, Ono is celebrated this eve- Broad but the all-day Art & Power: “Soul of a $55. (310) 746-4000, thewallis.org/bridgewa- ning at BREATHE WATCH LISTENTOUCH, Nation” Symposium of panels and poetry at ter. SHANA NYS DAMBROT part of L.A. Phil’s yearlong Fluxus Festival. In sat 3/23 the Aratani eatre. 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(323) 850-2000, E-at major, K. 449, and leads the way through any-date entry to the exhibition). thebroad.org/ church. HDDT sets up in a cathedral to consider laphil.com. FALLING JAMES the Austrian composer’s Symphony No. 36 in events/art-politics-soul-nation-symposium. Hildegard von Bingen, a German Benedictine C major, K. 425. LACO marimba stylist Wade SHANA NYS DAMBROT abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian FIL M/PHOTOG R A PHY Culbreath spins the circular, hypnotic patterns mystic, visionary and polymath considered to of modern composer Gabriella Smith’s 2013 MUSIC be the founder of scientic natural history. At a California Dreams in Cinema percussive fusion of sound and space, Riprap. time when women rarely had a voice, her work e current exhibition of works from 1970 to But the centerpiece of the concert is the world Soulful Sounds spanned the theological, artistic and scientic 1983 by legendary photographer Annie Leibo- premiere of James Newton Howard’s Concerto Dee Dee Bridgewater has been a pillar of mod- elds. How and why she was able to avoid the vitz at Hauser & Wirth is a vast realm of small-s- for Cello & Orchestra, the local lm compos- ern jazz, blues, soul and R&B for decades, a muzzling of women is considered in Hour of cale black-and-white wonders, with hundreds er’s rst cello concerto, which was written for vocalist with golden pipes and a soaring soul- Hildegard. Duckler promises this as an introduc- AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE FINE CANNABIS IS SOLD / WWW.CANNDESCENT.COM of vintage darkroom prints arranged in an ar- LACO principal cellist Andrew Shulman. Alex fulness that has garnered Grammy, Tony, NEA tion to an extended exploration of the abbess’s chival compendium of roughly chronological eatre, 216 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale; Sat., and United Nations accolades — not to men- work and times.