Season’s Final Concert at Arcadia Library in Kaleidoscope Series
The Arcadia Public Library Foundation has again presented an outstanding four-concert season and the final of the 2008-2009 season ends on Wednesday, April 29 when the Galileo Quartet performs the music of Brahms, Beethovan and Dvorak.
The Galileo Quartet consists of top Los Angeles musicians: Lorenz Gamma and Paul Stein, violins; violist Carrie Dennis, and cellist [...]
Seriously, Schickele with Armadillo String Quartet
MUSIC REVIEW
The Armadillo String Quartet members are a bunch of show-offs. They regularly wear black suits with outrageously colorful ties. When they take their seats and begin to play, they more than casually demonstrate that they are the top chamber ensemble in Los Angeles. They say they are “one-of-the-” premier chamber music groups and that [...]
Camerata Pacifica at Huntington Library Tonight
Camerata Pacifica will be in San Marino tonight, Tuesday, April 21 at 7:30 p.m. with their next-to-last season concert at The Huntington Library, Art Galleries and Botanic Gardens.
Nicholas Daniel, who was appointed Principal Oboist earlier this month, will join colleagues Catherine Leonard, violin; Richard Youngjae O’Neill, viola; Ani Aznavoorian, cello; and Warren Jones, pianist as [...]
Pasadena Symphony Attempts Creation of New World
MUSIC REVIEW
The 2008-2009 season for the Pasadena Symphony is over. After a series of difficult moves that occurred throughout the October to May concerts that included staff lay-offs, cancelled concerts and pleas for money, there is perhaps a glimmer of hope for the future of the financially stressed orchestra. With Executive Director Tom O’Connor moving [...]
Pasadena Showcase House Tours Support Music
The Pasadena Showcase House of Design opened Sunday, April 20 for tours and will remain open through Sunday, May 17. This year’s Design House is a 10,000 sq. ft estate in San Marino built in 1917 under the direction of G. Lawrence Stimson, the architect responsible for the Wrigley Mansion on Orange Grove Blvd., now [...]
L A Phil Names Salonen “Conductor Laureate
Sunday-April 19–Esa-Pekka Salonen, departing conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has been accorded an extraordinary honor by the orchestra’s administration. Salonen, 51, has been designated as the first “Conductor Laureate” in the history of the 90 year-old orchestra.
The announcement came tonight from the stage of the Walt Disney Concert Hall by Chairman of the Board [...]
Southwest Chamber Collaborates with Toru Takemitsu Festival
Southwest Chamber Music will participate with the Shumei Arts Council in the two-week series of concerts and community events between April 18th and May 4 exploring the world of Toru Takemitsu.
The Japanese composer’s works will be performed by Southwest Chamber Music on Saturday, April 18 at 8:00 p.m. at the Armory Center for the Arts, [...]
Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto: an excerpt
Linda Wang to Play Mendelssohn at Pasadena Symphony April 18
Pasadena Symphony will unveil a new world this Saturday, April 18 when it performs Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” as only one of three exciting pieces the orchestra will perform.
Conductor Jorge Mester will open the concert with Darius Milhaud’s “The Creation of the World”, a piece that he has led several [...]
Opera News: A Different Sort of Carmen
Intimate Opera Company has selected a re-mastered version of Bizet’s “Carmen”, “La Tragedie de Carmen” as their next production to be presented at PCC’s Harbeson Hall on Friday, May 1 and Saturday, May 2, at Packard Hall, Westminster Gardens on Saturday, May 9 and Saturday, May 16 and Sunday, May 17 in the Gold Room [...]
