Diavolo’s ‘Fearful Symmetries’ at the Hollywood Bowl
The Diavolo ensemble expertly made precisely coordinated feats look improvisational, even reckless, in its performance of “Fearful Symmetries” at the Hollywood Bowl. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
Diavolo members leaped and flipped over set pieces that kept changing shape. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
Adam Davis designed the giant cube that became the focus of the piece. This mysterious structure held all sorts of hidden panels, apertures and crevices that would quickly open up to evoke a whole cityscape. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
Diavolo members converge around a structure designed to interlock, come apart and evoke a changing scape. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
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Bramwell Tovey conducted “Fearful Symmetries,” the 1988 score of the same name by John Adams. The performance was a major collaboration commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic as the second installment of a projected Diavolo trilogy that began with “Foreign Bodies” three years ago. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
