Showcase House Tour Benefits Local Music Programs

 

Caught off guard: Pasadena Showcase House of Design volunteer Elsa Balding was surprised when we took her picture. The gracious Arcadian gave us a thorough tour of this year’s design home. The home is open from April 21 through May 19.

The 2013 Pasadena Showcase House of Design opens this week-end to delight home owners and would-be interior designers who want to …

Greatest Film Scores = Great Listening

Richard Kaufman conducts around the world, often featuring film music. Locally Kaufman is Principal Pops Conductor of Pacific Symphony.

CD REVIEW…

 

London Symphony Orchestra performs music from 16 film scores of Dimitri Tiomkin in a CD released August, 2012 on the LSO Live label with a large gorgeously mounted orchestra conducted by Richard Kaufman, a man hailed for his work conducting and supervising music for …

Local High School Choirs to be heard in Festival April 26

For the 24th year, the Los Angeles Master Chorale will present its free High School Choir Festival at Walt Disney Concert Hall at 1:00 p.m. on April 26.

Local high schools will again participate in the festival as choirs, with some choir members also joining the Festival Honor Choir which will combine performers from the Chorale’s professional ranks to be conducted by Los Angeles Master Chorale …

Bassist Tom Peters Wins Praise at Toronto Silent Film Festival

Last weekend double bassist Tom Peters travelled to Canada to perform the world premiere of his latest silent film score, the 1928 silent film “The Passion of Joan of Arc”. Peters was invited to play his score at the Toronto Silent Film Festival with fellow chamber musician Joelle Morton, a violonist who is on the faculty at the University of Toronto where the film was screened. In a second two-night performance, Peters and Morton travelled to Ottawa to repeat the gig.

A review by Toronto-based

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