LA Weekly reporter Katie Bain writes about the 2016 Messiah Project. It’s a December afternoon on Skid Row. Rows of sagging tents line San Pedro Street and the blocks beyond, as…
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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…
KUSC Arts Alive with Brian Lauritzen
Recently, Gupta and his colleagues with Street Symphony have focused their performing energies in a couple of places: performances in jails, and a partnership with PATH—People Assisting the Homeless. Not…
Vijay Gupta makes cover of LA Downtown Daily News
(An excerpt from the Cover Story:) DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – On a sweltering day in late August, Los Angeles Philharmonic violinist Vijay Gupta steps in front of a crowd and bows…