West Covina Symphony Holiday Concert Dec 4
Sylvia Lee Mann, conductor of the West Covina Symphony Orchestra has re-energized the orchestra and never more than this year’s Holiday Concert to be presented at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4 at the West Covina United Methodist Church. Admission to this concert is free. The holiday program will include just about all the favorites, from [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Holiday concerts begin immediately after your Thanksgiving dinner. Watch for the listing of the season’s finest music as we head toward Christmas. The singers pictured, the Dickens’ Carolers, are a part of Remember When, the wonderful close-harmony chorus that sings songs the older generation remembers.
Tish Oney Takes a Classical Turn on Nov. 24
Music at Noon at the Pasadena Presbyterian Church will offer a special performance by singer Tish Oney and guitarist John Chiodini on Wednesday, Nov. 24 – at noon. Although Oney, who, as Artistic Director of The Peggy Lee Project, tours singing both songs that Lee was noted for interpreting at this program she and Chiodini will perform [...]
People in the News….Jorge Mester
A story appearing Nov. 15 in the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky, reports that the Louisville Orchestra has threatened to declare bankruptcy if its terms are not met by the union representing the orchestra’s musicians. Jorge Mester holds the position of Music Director with the Louisville Orchestra. Mester was Music Director and conductor of the Pasadena [...]
Crown City Symphony Soloist is Violinist Andrew Sords
Two free concerts will be presented by the Crown City Symphony at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20 at the Pasadena Christian Church and again at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 21 at the First Baptist Church of Pasadena. The program is decidedly upbeat with William Walton’s “Crown Imperial March”; Edvard Grieg’s Symphonic Dances, Op. 64 and [...]
New Music Series Opens at Historic Blinn House, Pasadena
Social Arts founder Kirk Arnold-Smith is canny when it comes to putting together music programs. Following his successful production in July of Standard Men at the Sierra Madre Playhouse, Smith will present a classical music program, “From Bach to Bernstein” on Saturday, Nov. 20 at the historic Blinn House, the longtime headquarters of the [...]
Hamlisch Arrives in Pasadena, Proclaims He’s Ready to Entertain
Marvin Hamlisch was named Principal POPS conductor of the Pasadena Pops a few months ago. But he was officially welcomed to the city by Mayor Bogaard at a press conference held in the rotunda of City Hall on Nov. 10. Although the 2011 Pasadena POPS series of four summer concerts will begin on June 18 [...]
A Weekend of Music at Boston Court
This weekend the Marjorie Branson Performance Space at Boston Court will be busy. Music at the Court has scheduled a jazz trio for Friday, a jazz flutist and pianist for Saturday and a guitar duo for Monday. Opening this array of talent in the intimate and acoustically superior recital hall at Boston Court will [...]
Wright, Moss at Bridges Hall of Music
The Bridges Hall of Music at Pomona College continues faculty recitals at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13—but this one has a distinct faculty twist. Stephen Moss is the pianist, Jonathan Wright, is the violinist in this program of the music of Brahms, Nielsen and Elgar. Usually these programs are given by music faculty. While Moss [...]
Music of Southeast Asia to be Premiered by Southwest Chamber Saturday, Nov. 6
Southwest Chamber Music continuing its exploration of new music from Southeast Asia at The Colburn School, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6. Program includes premiere performances. Vu Nhat Tan’s “2T for Tom”; Ton That Tiet’s Introduction to “Memoire de la riviere”, and “Et la riviere chante l’eternite”; Him Sophy’s “The Decline of Angkor with soprano soloist [...]
