One more reason to love LA: Villa Aurora and the St. Matthew's Chamber orchestra are dedicating a
weekend to poor Hanns Eisler, that old misunderstood revolutionary: on
March 26 and 27, in Pacific Palisades.
Hanns Eisler stood on the beach in front of his Malibu house looking at the Pacific Ocean and pronounced 'Nature is boring!' This, from a man who escaped Hitler's purge, who enjoyed the comfort of success in Hollywood, but who never abandoned his alignment with the common man, and who was ultimately deported, a target of the House Un-American Activities Committee.