Review: Why ‘Noon to Midnight’ is the new-music bargain that’s hard to beat - Los Angeles Times

Review: Why ‘Noon to Midnight’ is the new-music bargain that’s hard to beat  Los Angeles Times

For $9 you could park all day under Walt Disney Concert Hall. For around $20 you got lunch from a food truck out front and a chance to snag one of the last cans of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s rare centennial beer. However, the real bargain Saturday was that $10 bought 12 hours of nonstop new music performed inside the main hall as well as in Disney’s various nooks and crannies and its outside staircase, garden and amphitheater. This was the annual L.A. Phil “Noon to Midnight” new-music marathon. An impressive number of the top U.S. ensembles and feisty local ones participated. There were...