Monrovia July 4 Celebration in Recreation Park
Monrovia Parks and Recreation Department will present a special Saturday, July 4 summer concert in Recreation Park beginning at 4:30 p.m. Bringing personality to the stage with witty comments and easy familiarity, the Alley Cats will whip up a storm of good feelings with their Doo-Wop song styling. The four Alley Cats, Royce Reynolds, Mando [...]
Drum Corps International at Rose Bowl July 4
The 83rd Annual 4th of July celebration at the Rose Bowl is just about an all-day affair if you want to celebrate with family and friends in a big way. Food vendors, entertainment, crafts, exhibits, picnic opportunities will be on hand around 2:00 p.m. but the Rose Bowl gates open at 6:00 p.m. The pre-fireworks [...]
Burbank Philharmonic Star Spangled Salute July 4
The Burbank Philharmonic Orchestra will present an Independence Day Star Spangled Salute to America, well, when else, July 4 with gates opening at the Starlight Bowl, Burbank, at 6:00 p.m., entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. and fireworks a 9:00 p.m. Steven Kerstein, conductor and music director will lead his orchestra in music from “My Fair [...]
A Great Evening for Cal Phil—and the Audience at Arboretum
MUSIC REVIEW
The California Philharmonic Orchestra under music director-conductor Victor Vener offered top-notch performances in the opening concert of the orchestra’s 12th season at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens in Arcadia.
Last Saturday, the evening was warm and delightful, the grounds of the Arboretum, beautiful, and the crowd both plentiful and eager to enjoy [...]
Pasadena Summer Youth Chamber Orchestra Young Artists
Jingfu Peng, pianist; Kyle Gilner, violinist; Ben Penzner, violist; Lydia Bundy, cellist; and Mason Yu, pianist are the soloists in the Pasadena Summer Youth Chamber Orchestra’s Young Artist’s Concert. 12 year-old Peng, a pupil of Roza Yoder, will perform a movement of the Grieg Piano Concerto in A-minor. Young, 18, a student of Louise Earhart, [...]
Sure, We Remember When…
Music Review
Wednesday night, June 24, a vocal group called Remember When did just that: they took the audience at Café 322 in Sierra Madre on a trip of old tunes from the 1930s and 1940s in a close-harmony style that became popular in a slightly later period, around the 1960s. Taking a song styling of [...]
It’s All on the Upbeat, By George!, for Cal Phil
Twelve years ago Victor Vener took a huge gamble: Los Angeles County agreed to allow a series of summer concerts by a new group, the CalPhil Foundation, the non-profit community benefit organization that supports the California Philharmonic Orchestra, at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens in Arcadia. With that contract in hand, the [...]
Freeway Stories in One-Act Opera at Pacific Asia Museum June 28
Los Angeles Opera is supporting contemporary opera through its 110-project, a one-act opera that has asked a number of local institutions to participate in gathering freeway stories from the community.
The result will be presented in a workshop style with music by Laura Karpman and libretto by Velina Hasu Houston and Shishir Kurup at the Pacific [...]
A Tropical Night Without the Heat
MUSIC REVIEW
Although the tropics are now in the summer solstice as of June 21, Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge was cool after a sunless day when our local marine layer stayed heavily over the entire San Gabriel Valley. Pasadena Symphony CEO, Paul Jan Zdunek called it our local “rainforest”, though fortunately almost no drizzle [...]
Polli Chambers-Salazar at Music at Noon June 24
Polli Chambers-Salazar originated Classics Becomes Eclectic in 1997 and since then has presented classic recitals in unusual formats (like Norton Simon museum—in the museum, not the auditorium—and as a keyboard artist, she is one of the best. This popular professor, currently on the faculties of USC, College of the Canyons, Pasadena Conservatory of Music and [...]
