Los Angeles Chamber Singers’ Cappella Mark Early Music with March 13 Concert
Music associated with the Easter season can be about grief as winter lingers or it can express joy as spring brings the re-birth of plants and animals. The Los Angeles Chamber Singers’ Cappella, a group of specially selected singers from the larger Chamber group, under the direction of Peter Rutenberg, will present a program of [...]
L A Master Chorale Shows Strength and Sensitivity in Bach “Passion”
REVIEW: The Easter story as a tale of human drama is filled with mystery, intrigue, power and the supernatural, enough to attract the attention and interest of anyone regardless of their beliefs. When Johann Sebastian Bach presented this story with a likely premier of his lengthy and difficult work “St. Matthew Passion” around 1727, some [...]
Duo Baltica to Appear at Coffee Gallery Backstage March 9
They may claim to be a duo, but actually Duo Baltica will be a trio when they present an intimate evening of opera and cabaret songs at the Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena on Tuesday, March 9. The “duo” team is soprano Roksana Zeinapur and pianist Guinevere Saenger. For this appearance, they are adding fiddler/violinist [...]
Jon Mayer Trio at Café 322 March 5
Jazz pianist Jon Mayer plays Friday, March 5 in Sierra Madre at Café 322 from 8:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Mayer knows his way around the keyboard with a modern fluidity not often heard. He knows the latest jazz and just about all the All-American Songbook. Backing Mayer will be Fritz Wise on drums and [...]
Santa Cecilia – Chamber Music Close Up—March 6
Music of the early 17th-century composers from northern and southern Italy will be presented by the Santa Cecilia Orchestra at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, March 6 at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts. The Baroque period music will be off-set with the performance of James Newton’s “Prayers and Tears for the Broken” for brass ensemble. [...]
Pacific Serenades Mixes It Up at Neighborhood Church March 7
Sharon Farber says she is a long-time fan of Pacific Serenades, so she was honored when founder of the group, Mark Carlson, asked her to write a new piece for this season’s series. The Southern California-based composer (with a lengthy list of accolades for her music) has written “Bridges of Love”, three poems, one from [...]
A Journey: Christ’s Passion tale in Music by Bach, March 7 at Walt Disney Concert Hall
The holiest season of the Christian calendar is the Easter season. The celebration of the re-telling of the biblical passion story is most movingly told in Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. Composed in 1727 and set to chapters 26 and 27 from the Book of Matthew, Bach’s deeply emotional work, entitled simply, “St. Matthew [...]
