Alexandra Grant’s New Old Classics

The Gracias Gustavo era at the LA Phil finds a fresh visual partner in artist Alexandra Grant, whose kaleidoscopic translations of text-based narrative into pure, expressive image now adorn a pair of definitive Prokofiev recordings from Deutsche Grammophon. For the digital release of Romeo and Juliet, captured as it soared alongside choreography by Benjamin Millepied’s LA Dance Project at Disney Hall, the label worked with Grant’s 2022 painting Bounty, an explosion of violet and crimson where submerged text on love and hate vibrates with the same tragic abundance as the score itself. This curated resonance thence evolved into a bespoke […] The post Alexandra Grant’s New Old Classics first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.