Letters to the Editor

Season Canceled

The Musica Angelica Board of Directors has made the difficult decision to cancel the remainder of the 2025-26 season due to the organization’s current financial position.

As a result, the Auf Wiedersehen Maestro Haselböck and St. Matthew Passion performances will not take place. All ticket purchases associated with these events will be refunded. First Congregational Church of Los Angeles and organist Christoph Bull are now presenting Bach to the Future and are honoring tickets sold for that concert.

This decision was made with a heavy heart, and we are forever grateful for your patronage and support these many years.

Thank you to the musicians, supporters, and audiences who have sustained Musica Angelica’s mission of bringing the joy of Baroque music to our community.

Board of Directors

Speed Bump

Disneyland was built in 1 year. The Empire State Building was built in 1.5 years. First Interstate Tower in DTLA was built in 2 years.

The Colorado Lagoon open channel project is 3 years and counting.

Charles Meyerson, via Nextdoor

Political Arrogance

Robert Garcia just can’t keep his hands off Broadway.

In a clear attempt to win your vote in the June election, he posted an itemized list on Facebook of all the different ways he’s going to spend our tax dollars, including $850,000 for “murals, street furniture, landscaping and other improvements on the Broadway corridor.”

Oh, that will surely improve Garcia’s road diet/bike lane fiasco on Broadway that resulted in vacant storefronts, traffic gridlock, and frequent car crashes, among other problems.

To add insult to injury, construction on his Broadway disaster began at the start of the holiday shopping season in 2018, eliminating parking and foot traffic to stores, leaving the street full of traffic cones and the sidewalk full of open trenches. Merry Christmas! I don’t think street furniture would have helped.

All the while our then-Mayor Robert Garcia did his usual disappearing act and refused to speak to the owners of the businesses he was destroying: an infuriating and unconscionable lack of transparency during the entire process. Broadway has yet to recover, but will now be blessed with murals, street furniture, and landscaping: more of the same Robert Garcia, all show and no go at the taxpayers’ expense. Some things never change.

Corruption begins at home. The same self-serving political arrogance that begins with destroying a neighborhood like Broadway ends with a war in Iran.

Let’s be careful how we vote this June.

Merry Colvin