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Pasadena Pops Love Paris This Week-end

Music at Pasadena Pops this weekend celebrates everything a Francophile would want in the season’s second concert at Descanso Gardens Friday, July 17 and Saturday, July 18 with the concert  beginning at 7:30 p.m. with all the musical standards connected to the French capitol.
Guest artists are Steve Connell, Karen Akers and pianists Yangyue Fang and Hunter Noack. Connell, actor, author, hip-hop poet will be on hand to narrate Saint-Saen’s “Carnival of the Animals” and Karen Akers will bring a song tribute to Edith Piaf. Noack is a young pianist in his junior year at USC studying under Kevin Fitz-Gerald. Fang is a young lady now studying at The Colburn School of Performing Arts. Gershwin’s “American in Paris” will be a centerpiece number on the program. Rachael Worby conducts.
Gates open at 5:30 p.m. for picnicking, the music is at 7:30 p.m. Ticket prices range from $20 to $90. Information: (626) 793-7172, ext. 16.

Posted by billpeters on Jul 16th, 2009 and filed under Music News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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