Good Friday Concerts Listed
Additional Listings for Easter Music Invited
Church of the Good Shepherd, Arcadia
The Good Friday concert at the Church of the Good Shepherd (United Methodist) Church will perform John Rutter’s “Requiem” with the Chancel Choir and musicians Barbara Varellas, piano, Paula Fehrenbach, cello and Lara Wickes, oboe at 7:30 p.m. in the church sanctuary. Timothy Durkovic, Music [...]
Pasadena Symphony Pulls out of Pasadena Civic, Heads to Ambassador
In a startling announcement before a crowd at a special subscriber party and press conference at the plaza of the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, officials of the Pasadena Symphony Association
said the Pasadena Symphony will leave its home since the early 1920’s to perform exclusively at the Ambassador Auditorium when it opens its 2010-2011 season on October [...]
Rose Chen, piano, Lars Hoefs, cello Play Music at Noon March 24
Rose Chen and Lars Hoefs, as part of the Blue Rose Trio, won the Strings Prize in the celebrated Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in 2005. Although the trio is not performing, Chen and Hoefs will be at the Pasadena Presbyterian Church’s Wednesday Music at Noon at, when else, 12:00 p.m. on March 24. [...]
Pasadena Community Orchestra March 26 at First Church of the Nazarene
Alan Reinecke conducts the excellent Pasadena Community Orchestra at 8:00 p.m. Friday, March 26 at the First Church of the Nazarene, Pasadena. The program includes Calude Debussy’s “Nuages”, Aaron Copland’s Suite from “Billy the Kid” ballet, and Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 6 in D-major. The First Church of the Nazarene is at 3700 [...]
Pasadena Symphony Subscriber Party Reveals Changes
In a startling announcement released to Beacon Media prior to its official presentation at a subscriber’s special party on the plaza of the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, the Pasadena Symphony will leave its home since the early 1920’s to perform exclusively at the Ambassador Auditorium when it opens its 2010-2011 season on October 23.
More changes are [...]
Edith Roberts, Long-time Pasadena Symphony Supporter, dies at age 91
This is not an obituary notice. This is a personal note to the friends and family of Edith M. Roberts and supporters of the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra who will long remember the dear and loving woman who passed away a week ago at age 91. The Pasadena Symphony and many other organizations will miss her [...]
Azusa Pacific 7th Annual Battle of the Big Bands March 19 and 20
Azusa Pacific University, the Christian university located in central Azusa, is anything but stodgy. The university’s neighbor, Citrus College, may be hipper, but music-wise a challenge has been issued between the Citrus Blue Note Swing Orchestra and APU’s Jazz Ensemble for 8:00 p.m. Friday, March 19 and 8:00 p.m Saturday, March 20. It must be [...]
This Saturday: Pasadena Symphony Program Recalls Winter, Reveres Summer
Pasadena Symphony definitely believes in climate change, that is, the four seasonal changes. However, even though the concert is Saturday night, March 20, the first day of Spring, orchestra conductor, Jorge Mester, has opted to offer a concert program, which will be presented at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, that skips the traditional re-birth and renewal [...]
Primal Sky First CD Salutes Knights of the Sea
RECORD REVIEW
What could be more hip than to be in a lounge with surfers? That is what Tim Smith hopes to convey with the release of the first CD album by his group, Primal Sky. And, indeed, the 13 track album is a loosely defined genre of “surf” or maybe Latin. In any event it [...]
Linda Wang, Shari Raynor Highlight Next Restoration Concert March 14
You have to ask how the South Pasadena Restoration Concert series keeps coming up with such wonderful artists as violinist Linda Wang and pianist Shari Raynor who highlight the fifth concert in a series of six regular dates at 4:00 p.m. Sunday, April 14 at the South Pasadena Public Library Community Room.
Ms. Wang was sensational [...]
