Beck Basks in Bittersweet Majesty With the LA Phil at Symphonic Hollywood Bowl Show: Concert Review
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Soy un ganador — this was likely the sentiment of everyone who caught Beck‘s performance with the LA Phil Saturday night.
It represented an apotheosis of the kind of pop-star-at-the-pops event that the Hollywood Bowl was veritably made for, with Beck going mostly off-brand as a live artist to emphasize the most languid parts of his catalog for maximal symphonic synergy.
You might be tempted to call it an “only in L.A.” night if you didn’t know that the show is one of seven Beck is doing with resident orchestras across the country this month, which effectively made the Philharmonic a pickup band for the occasion.
Sharing is OK; other cities and other coasts deserve a piece of this big a musical win, too. Seeing Beck with an orchestra seems more inevitable than it would be with almost anyone else, even though he hasn’t previously indulged in it much as a concert performer.
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