Sing! Sing! Sing!
No, it isn’t time to decorate the tree yet, but it is time for choirs to begin rehearsals for holiday concerts. The First Presbyterian Church Concert Choir at the First Presbyterian Church of Monrovia invites singers to begin preparations for its December concert with rehearsals starting Thursday, Oct. 15 from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.in [...]
Music of Gernot Wolfgang at LACMA Sunday Live Oct 11
Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Sundays Live concert will present the music of Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Gernot Wolfgang this Sunday, Oct. 11 at 6:00 p.m. in the Leo S. Bing Theater. Gernot Wolfgang, an Austrian composer, now residing in Los Angeles is an active member of the film and TV music industry [...]
Musical Flights of Fantasy to Open Pasadena Symphony Season
A new season starts for the Pasadena Symphony on Saturday, Oct. 24 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Several changes have been made for the 2009-2010 season. First, a starting time for the symphony, 8:00 p.m., is new this year. Also, no formal dinner has been planned as the Symphony and its wealthy supporters are downsizing. [...]
Opera at Westfield Santa Anita Mall Oct 10
The Metropolitan Opera has screened its productions in local theaters for the last few years. AMC Theaters at the Westfield Santa Anita Mall begins the 2009-2010 Metropolitan Opera season in digital High Definition format on Saturday, Oct. 10 at 10:00 a.m. The opening opera is Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca”with soprano Karita Mattila in the title role. [...]
4000 4th Graders Descend on Walt Disney Concert Hall Oct 15
Courtesy of the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts, the Showcase House Youth Concert brings over 4,000 4th grade students from schools throughout L A County to Walt Disney Concert Hall to hear Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals” performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. This is designed to give especially those from underserved communities, the [...]
Guitarist Carlos Velasco at Madeleines in Pasadena
A guitarist in a restaurant generally goes unheralded, playing quietly in the corner. We have found a guitarist of exceptional talent who, while playing quietly in the corner, receives attention from diners at Madeleines Restaurant on Green St. in Pasadena: Carlos Velasco. Velasco, if I got it right, is from Colombia. But, no matter, from [...]
Coleman Chamber Season Opens Oct 4 with Enso String Quartet
For the 106th consecutive time, the Coleman Chamber Concert series will open at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4 at Beckman Auditorium on the campus of Caltech with the Enso String Quartet. Quartet members are Maureen Nelson and John Marcus, violins; Melissa Reardon, viola; and Richard Belcher, cello. The ensemble will play the music of Ludwig [...]
Kikkert, Clemensen in Songs of the Here, Now and Hereafter Oct 3
The Intimate Opera Company will present the outfit’s founder and Board President, Wendy Kikkert, mezzo-soprano and David Clemensen, piano, in a program of works by Handel, Brahms, Mahler, Wolf, Copland, Bolcom, Porter, Rogers and Hammerstein, Kern and Bernstein at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3 in Packard Hall, Westminster Gardens, Duarte. The event, titled “Songs of [...]
