The Street Symphony, an organization led by the L.A. Philharmonic violinist Vijay Gupta, presented excerpts from Handel’s “Messiah” at the Midnight Mission, in the grim heart of L.A.’s Skid Row.…
Month: December 2015
LATimes.com: On skid row, a chorus of hallelujahs for 'Messiah'
Los Angeles Times reporter and Street Symphony friend, Steve Lopez, writes about the Messiah Project. About five years ago, inspired in part by Ayers’ love of music and his countless…
Composer Reena Esmail on Street Symphony
In November, 2014, Five Street Symphony musicians, a string quartet and composer Reena Esmail, brought music to a group of women at Twin Towers Jail in downtown Los Angeles. I…