Pasadena Community Orchestra Hits the Mark in Opening Concert
REVIEW After years of music lessons and achieving a technical level approaching the professional, business executives, music teachers and educators and others who don’t want to pursue the music field full-time find an outlet for their talent locally by performing with the all-volunteer Pasadena Community Orchestra. The orchestra has assembled about 70 members who demonstrated [...]
Finger-pickin’ Guitar at Music at Noon; Coffee Gallery Backstage Nov 11
The Pasadena Presbyterian Church presents outstanding musicians performing brief noon-time concerts in the sanctuary of their church. Each Wednesday classical music artists present a 40-minute recital-concert designed to lift the spirits at mid-day. This Wednesday, Nov. 11 guitarist Claude Bourbon will perform an eclectic program of the classics, a little rock and some his own [...]
Talich Quartet in Gold Room, Pasadena Civic, Nov 8
The Talich Quartet, one of Europe’s finest string quartets, is performing in the Gold Room of the Pasadena Civic Auditorium at 4:00 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8 as part of the Da Camera Society Chamber Music in Historic Sites program. The music is an all-Beethoven program to include Ludwig van Beethovan;s String Quartet No. 4 in [...]
Reinecke Leads Pasadena Community Orchestra in His Second Season
===WATCH FOR MUSIC REVIEW TO APPEAR TOMORROW=== The Pasadena Community Orchestra advertises itself as “A continuing heritage of fine music”. Indeed! Alan Reinecke is now Music Director; as he begins his second season as conductor this orchestra is bound to flourish. Founded when PCC decided to discontinue the college orchestra program in 1983, Wayne Reinecke [...]
Mayer, Christlieb at Café 322 Nov 6
Start the week-end right with an evening out at Sierra Madre’s Café 322. Jon Mayer, whose wonderful piano lights up any room, will be joined by Pete Christlieb on sax, Chris Conner on bass and Paul Kreibich on drums Friday night, Nov. 6 from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m at the popular spot. Christlieb is [...]
Live from the Met in High Def
The Metropolitan Opera has screened its productions in local theaters for the last few years. I’m told that the AMC Theaters at the Westfield Santa Anita Mall is just about filled for these presentations. AMC is showing the 2009-2010 Metropolitan Opera season in digital High Definition format. The next screening is on Saturday, Nov. 7 [...]
Azusa Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Oratorio Choir, Beethoven 9 on Nov 3
Did you miss the Dudamel extravaganza? Or the Diemecke’s version in Long Beach at the Long Beach Symphony? Here is yet another chance to hear Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with full orchestra and chorus. Azusa Pacific Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christopher Russell will perform this mighty work at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3 at the Lake [...]
White House Celebrates Classical Music with Joshua Bell, others
First-Lady Michelle Obama, in her position as honorary chair of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, will bring together 120 students from around the country to speak about the importance of after school and out-of-school arts and humanities education at an afternoon session on Wednesday, Nov. 4. In the evening, violinist Joshua Bell, [...]
