Bernstein’s Guitar Concerto Presented at the Hollywood Bowl

Attaching a “Hollywood Goes Orchestral” tag to Tuesday’s concert by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra might be accurate, but it was also misleading. In a program in which Elmer Bernstein’s engaging Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra–written for the evening’s featured soloist, Christopher Parkening–had its Los Angeles premiere, and a suite from Alex North’s “Cleopatra” score had … Continue reading Bernstein’s Guitar Concerto Presented at the Hollywood Bowl