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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2015 E5 LATIMES.COMCALENDAR MUSIC REVIEW On guard in bad times and good os Angeles (Times Andras Schiff leads the Phil in a subtle reading of Haydn's 'Mass in Time of playing from the orchestra and stood his own ground with shining tone. In the cadenza for the first movement, he quoted "Non piu Andrai" from Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro." Figaro here sends a page off to war by parodying the soldier's lot. Schiff then allowed the slow movement to linger lovingly around operatic phrases, but he brought a metallic urgency to the Finale's otherwise innocent play. Schubert's songs were the songs of normal life. Mezzo-soprano Britta Schwarz made merry with two different versions of "Standchen" Serenade the playful interruption of a lover's sleep, first with the help of a women's chorus, then with a male one.

For his pair of songs, tenor Werner Gura gave twinkling accounts of a fisherman's prize being not necessarily the fish but the fish as bait for the ladies. A luminous young soprano, Anna Lucia Richter, sparkled with innocent freshness in Schubert's popular "Im Fruhling" (In Springtime) At the other extreme, the veteran bass Robert Holl contemplated the grave with every ounce of his being. Schiff's playing was beatific. The L.A. Phil program comes on the heels of his three recitals in Disney in which the Hungarian pianist dug with uncompromising, otherworldly intensity into the last three sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.

The orchestral program, which repeats through Saturday, is a return to the imperfect but still excellent world as we know it. GENARO MOLINA Los Angeles Times ANDRAs SCHIFF conducts the L.A. Philharmonic on Thursday. Anna Lucia Richter is the soprano soloist. MARK SWED When Haydn wrote on top of his 1796 Mass in major "Missa in tempore belli," Napoleon's troops threatened the borders of the Austrian empire.

A decree had been issued that year that the word "peace" not be uttered until victory was at hand. Haydn's contribution to the cause was this "Mass in Time of War." Of course, the last words of the traditional mass text are "dona nobis pacem" grant uspeace. They are first uttered quietly by the chorus, accompanied by a timpani roll underneath like a heart's nervous palpitation. When repeated, the trumpets blare, the drums pound and the Mass ends with vehemence. That moment was stirring Thursday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall in a performance of what is also known as Haydn's "Pauken-messe" (Kettledrum Mass) by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Master Chorale and four excellent soloists conducted by Andras Schiff.

This wasn't stirring in the way Leonard Bernstein's extraordinary performance of the Mass had been in 1973, when he performed it in the National Cathedral in Washington during Richard Nixon's second inauguration celebrations. Bernstein's who stood outside in a freezing rain to listen. Schiff's approach was quieter and, in comparison, understated. But it too was dissident. We don't know exactly what Haydn, a warm humanist with a magnificent wit, meant the tenth of his 14 Masses to be.

Although the "Mass in Time of War" ends more theatrically than typical for a work meant to serve as a religious service, the score's most remarkable feature is its normality. A "Time of War" is no less a time for clever turns of phrase, inventive formal procedures and harmonic twists. Joyous and somber airs vie for the greater beauty. Only at the end are there effect. With all the marvels that came before, that was a disquieting indication that subtle threats against peace may be even more dangerous than bellicose ones.

Schiff placed the Mass in an original context that added to its seditious message. The concert began with him conducting Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25 from the keyboard. It ended with an unusual post-concert Schubert song recital in which the four vocal soloists and members of the Master Chorale performed with Schiff back at the piano. A brilliant work on a grand scale, Mozart's concerto is also in major, and Schiff gave it a militaristic vitality.

He asked for forthright What critics don't get about Kardashians Andras Schiff conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic Where Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111S. Grand Los Angeles When: 8 p.m. Saturday Cost: $26.50 to $195.50 Info: (323) 850-2000, www.laphil.org "Concert for Peace" called for an end to the Vietnam War. He used a huge chorus, shook the rafters in stunning insurrection and transfixed a crowd of 12,000 protesters games. She didn't want to go to Miami to help open a new branch of the sisters' Dash clothing stores because she felt bad leaving her husband behind in L.A.

One time, hoping to surprise Lamar with a sexy gift, she even did a nude photo shoot in a bathtub filled with candy. And then, in the eighth season of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" after the "Khloe Lamar" spinoff was canceled we suddenly saw a lot less of Lamar. Khloe would receive bizarre phone calls from him in which he sounded disoriented. She'd later try to explain in solo on-camera interviews that he was going through a "difficult" or "emotional" time. Tabloids would go on to report that Lamar had been seen hanging out on L.A.'s skid row, but that wasn't seen on the show.

According to a 2013 TMZ report, Khloe was so adamant about protecting Lamar from negative publicity that she kept her family in the dark about his addiction for "most of her marriage." And listen, I get it. The sisters are producers on their show, meaning they have final say on what makes it to air. So could they be editing footage to portray themselves in a positive light? That would be a duh. But in the days following Lamar's terrifying brush intimations, with distant trumpet calls, disruptive timpani, of threats to life's delights. Haydn, a national hero who had given the Aus-trians their new national anthem, wanted Napoleon defeated as much as the next guy.

His paean to peace is the reason why. Schiff put much of his attention to elucidating the special details of Haydn's score, the many ways that make the music feel alive and of the moment. The orchestra played with fervent understatement, if there is such a thing, and Robert de-Maine contributed an eloquent cello solo. The final bars were more solemn than activist. Joseph Pereira used period timpani, taut in their I UUL KHLOE Kardashian and Lamar Odom are shown in 2012 in happier times.

about his lack of a support system. His dad, Joe, has had his own issues with drugs and was often shown on the show hitting up Lamar for money. And sure, plenty of NBA players turned up at the hospital. But who among them has offered to drop everything and support Lamar through his upcoming rehab process? I'm the first to admit that I'm a joke of a sports fan. I don't know a left guard from a point guard and was surprised to learn that a backdoor screen has nothing to do with a house.

So while I recognize that Lamar is a wildly accomplished athlete, I would never claim to understand the contributions he's made to the sport of basket $1 .50 Sun. mark.swedlatimes.com her sisters run retail stores. But that's not why I like her, or the rest of her sisters. I like her because she doesn't hide her desire to be skinny or beautiful, even when that involves getting ridiculous laser cellulite treatments or having a pricey makeup artist at her beck and call. I like her because she married a total narcissist no, the one before Kanye West and later admitted she basically did it because she didn't want to be 30 and unwed.

I like her because of her ugly cry and that she was brave enough to show it. There's a reason it's become a viral meme: We all know how unattractive we lookwhen we break down how hard it is to show that vulnerable side of ourselves. Khloe has written a new memoir, due out next month, about how long it took her to accept her body. She also, according to a source close to the publication, discusses Lamar in the book, which is titled "Strong Looks Better Naked." And even though that source says copies were shipped to stores in advance of Lamar's health crisis, I'm sure that everyone will see next month's book release as a publicity ploy. Just one more reason to hate the Kardashians.

amy.kaufmanlatimes.com Twitter: AmyKinLA with death in Las Vegas, I've found myself really disturbed by the media's treatment of the Kardashians. Suddenly, Khloe has become public enemy No. 1 for rushing to her estranged husband's bedside. Now she shows up? After Lamar has fallen into such a dark space that he went on a bender in a brothel? She's making this all about her! Except that if you watch the Kardashians' show and I've seen all 147 episodes, not counting the spinoff programs you'd know that Khloe appears to have never fallen out of love with Lamar. By her own admission, she was never able to commit fully to a relationship with musician French Montana because she was still getting over the turmoil of her marriage.

"If I had my way," she told her mom during a 2014 episode, "I'd still be married to Lamar." On an episode that aired just a few weeks ago, Kim even got mad at her for continuing to talk to her ex. (Khloe was spending a lot of time on the phone with Lamar because his best friend had died.) And if Khloe hadn't shown up for Lamar emotionally and perhaps financially how would that have gone over with the public? More important: Who would have been there for him? Lamar has long been open ball. Which, by the way, also counts as entertainment, just like that trashy reality show that's supposedly poisoning our youth. So if the only thing you know about the Kardashians is that Kim made a sex tape, I implore you to take it down a notch, or 300. Yes, I'll give it to you: This is a family whose wealth and materialism can often be hard to swallow.

Khloe just got her Range Rover wrapped in velvet, which doesn't even make sense, because, hi, bird poop. Youngest sister Kylie bought a mansion when she was 17 years old. By age 2, Kim's daughter, North, had already sat in the front row at Paris Fashion Week. But set aside your cynicism for a second and consider that maybe, under those well-contoured cheekbones, there are women with rich emotional lives. Women who have dealt firsthand with divorce, alcoholism, depression, child custody battles, fertility struggles and a sex change.

I could tell you about what smart businesswomen the Kardashians are, which is what most people do when they're trying to defend the family. And, yes, Kim has made a bajillion dollars with her video game and has figured out how to monetize her social media. She also helps the LAST WITCH HUNTER Kardashians, from El as self-involved." That pretty accurately describes the creed the Kardashians live by. After all, Kourtney Kar-dashian did allow cameras to roll as she literally pulled her baby from her body with her bare hands during childbirth. Kim once rubbed Kourtney's breast milk on her skin in the hopes of curing her psoriasis.

Khloe got down on all fours and let Kourtney give her a bikini wax. But you know what wasn't shown or even explicitly discussed on the TV show? Lamar's addiction struggles. After he and Khloe got hitched on the show, obviously viewers got to know Lamar as a warmhearted, gentle soul. He loved candy so much that he developed numerous cavities, and Khloe had to force him to go to the dentist. He was the only one who was able to have a close friendship with the family's most reclusive brother, Rob.

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