Cellist to Perform at Good Shepherd Concert Series
The Church of the Good Shepherd’s music series Music in Sacred Spaces continues at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7 in Arcadia. Artistic Director of the series, Timothy Durkovic, will bring cellist Timothy Landauer to the Sunday afternoon program to perform works by Schumann, Chopin and Rachmaninoff. Landauer is currently the principal cellist of Orange County’s [...]
Michael Sellers in Recital at Pasadena Presbyterian Church Oct. 27
Concert pianist Michael Sellers is about to take off again on another European tour, but you can hear a brief preview of this celebrated pianist’s keyboard brilliance at 12:00 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27 at the next Music at Noon recital at the Pasadena Presbyterian Church. Sellers is beginning his 27th tour and stops will include [...]
Hitchcock’s 1927 Silent “The Lodger” A Spooky Preamble to Halloween
Tom Peters returns to Boston Court at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23 to present his fourth original score to the 1927 silent movie “The Lodger”, often called Alfred Hitchock’s first film, certainly the first with his trademark style. “I took a pure narrative,” Hitchcock said of the film, “and, for the first time presented ideas [...]
Southwest Chamber Season Opens With Benefit Oct. 24
The 2010-2011 Season for Southwest Chamber Music begins at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24 at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, with more of its exciting Internationally based contemporary music. The evening will be highlighted by the music of Cal Arts’ Wadada Leo Smith but will also present works commissioned for Southwest Chamber’s up-coming [...]
First Arcadia Public Library Concert is 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20
Paul Stein, Artistic Director of the Arcadia Public Library’s classical music concert series, A Classical Kaleidoscope, can be counted on for lively and interesting programs. He also has a long list of outstanding professional musicians he brings along to present the programs—as he will during the season of concerts that begin at 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, [...]
Excitement at Pasadena Symphony Opening Concert: Young Artist, Antique Violin
Talk about enthusiasm. Pasadena Symphony’s got it: plenty of it. With Saturday’s season opener (Oct. 23) with two performances—at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., there is a new venue, the Ambassador Auditorium, a new conductor, Artistic Advisor to the Symphony, James DePreist, and a soloist, Anne Akiko Meyers, the violinist who’s as modern as you can [...]
Chalifour, Tsan, Martin at Restoration Concert Oct. 17
Continuing their ability to attract top musicians, the Friends of the South Pasadena Library will present violinist Martin Chalifour and cellist Cecila Tsan and pianist Gavin Martin in concert at 4:00 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17 in the Community Room of the South Pasadena Library. Chalifour, principal concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Tsan, principal [...]
Organist to Play All-New Digital Organ at Church of Good Shepherd
An internationally famed pianist/organist will meet up with the latest in organ technology, an all-digital organ in concert at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 17 at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Arcadia. Burkard Schliessmann will perform great organ literature on the newly installed five-manual Rogers all-digital drawknob organ. Burkard Schliessmann is known today as [...]
Fall Concert to Recall Memories of Swing and Pop Music
The jazz vocal group, Remember When, is set to present a mix of Big Band favorites and Broadway tunes in its new fall show to be presented at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16 at The Center for the Visual and Performing Arts in Alhambra. Remember When has been travelling the long road of memory tunes [...]
Successful Pasadena Master Chorale Concert Opens Season
REVIEW… There have been many chorale groups in the San Gabriel Valley, lots of them performing for decades. The new kid on the block is the Pasadena Master Chorale, established in 2009. The response Artistic Director/conductor Jeffrey Bernstein received from a nearly full house at the Altadena Community Church on Sunday afternoon foretells that this [...]
