Mark Swed is a Classical Music Critic at the Los Angeles Times. He covers a wide range of topics within the arts and entertainment sphere, focusing on classical and new music, opera, jazz, world music, and dance. Mark's insights and critiques have been featured in various publications, including Yahoo News and the Miami Herald.
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Mark Swed’s coverage is heavily centered on music, with a strong emphasis on orchestras, major performances, and leadership changes in the classical scene. He seems most responsive to pitches tied to timely live events, notable debuts or farewells, venue and production developments, and shifts in artistic direction.
He also writes in a more interpretive, opinion-friendly style at times, so well-framed commentary, insider perspective, or access to key figures behind a major musical moment may resonate.
Given his local focus, pitches should be tailored to Los Angeles and Southern California.
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Hardly anyone walking up Peppertree Lane notices the Hollywood Bowl Museum on the way to the amphitheater entrance.
The Broad's "Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind" is more mind than music. She opens your mind; you make the music. Look into an empty "Box of Smile" and maybe you will.
With the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel heading off on a brief tour to London and Edin...
By: Mark Swed
LOS ANGELES — In early April 2007, I was invited to a surreptitious dinner with the Los Angeles Philharmonic's music director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the orchestra's president, Deborah Borda.
By: Mark Swed
LOS ANGELES — In early April 2007, I was invited to a surreptitious dinner with the Los Angeles Philharmonic's music director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the orchestra's president, Deborah Borda.
By: Mark Swed
LOS ANGELES — On Sunday, Oct. 3, 2009, at 2 p.m., an atmospheric electricity pervaded the Hollywood Bowl when Johnny Polanco came on stage.
By: Mark Swed
The Bowl, like the moon that warm fall day, was full and free. All 18,000 tickets had been given to anyone willing to brave long lines.
By: By Mark
New L.A. Phil conductor-in-residence Anna Handler follows Dudamel's epic farewell at the Hollywood Bowl with Beethoven's Fifth.
By: Mark Swed
LOS ANGELES - Gustavo's gone. The Hollywood Bowl felt a little forlorn Tuesday night after four long evenings of boisterous 18,000-strong crowds showing L.A.'s many-splendored love for Gustavo Dudamel.
By: Eloise Rollins-Fife, Mark Swed
Gustavo Dudamel returns to conduct Beethoven at Walt Disney Concert Hall, his replacement, Daniel Harding, makes his first appearance, Domingo Hindoyan leads LA Opera for the first time and Los Angeles Ballet debuts at the Hollywood Bowl, among other highlights.
