Grand Performances kicks off its 2008 season with a cross-cultural celebration of the music of Miles Davis performed by India’s foremost musicians and various Miles Davis band alumni. Coming together in the Miles from India Ensemble, the group reinterprets Miles’ best-known material, fusing sitar, tablas, mridangam and Carnatic violin with traditional western instruments. Hosted by KCRW’s Tom Schnabel, the concert is one of only three shows in North America.
WHEN: 8pm
ADMISSION: Free
WHERE: California Plaza
ADDRESS: 350 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90071
WEBSITE: www.grandperformances.org
Focusing on high quality artisanal wines from around the world, Silver Lake Wines offers a weekly Sunday afternoon tasting. Featuring four wines and an aperitif, each one is paired with a hors d’oeuvre that will complement it as well as represents the region it is from. The Sunday tasting also includes a presentation on the wines and an opportunity to ask questions.
Known for his innovative and highly original novels, Jim Crace will be reading from his latest work “The Pesthouse.” According to Crace the book is “a long, picaresque narrative set in the US about two hundred years from now. The country has fragmented. The machines have stopped. The novel provides America not with a science fiction future but with something that it has always wanted and lacked - a medieval “past”, an ancient European experience.”
