Tuesday Musicale Recital Feb. 1
Photo top – Nancy Work, lower, Helen Harboyan – photo by Beatrice Buchman The Pasadena Central Library in the Donald Wright Auditorium will be the site of the upcoming Tuesday Musicale recital at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 1. The program will highlight the music of Mozart, Scarlatti, Borodin and Haydn. Performers on the program [...]
Christian Campos Prepares Horizon Chamber Choir for Concert of Bach Motets
Live performances of classical repertoire performed by the chamber choir of the Horizon Music Group presents its second concert in our area at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 5 at South Pasadena’s St. James Episcopal Church. This young choir, established by its conductor, Christian Campos, in 2010, provides young emerging singers to delve into music [...]
Charles Parsons to play Rachmaninoff with Pasadena Community Orchestra
Save Friday, Jan. 28 for the next concert by the Pasadena Community Orchestra. Their concert begins at 8:00 p.m. at the First Church of the Nazarene, Pasadena when the orchestra under the direction of Alan Reinecke will perform works by Antonine Dvorak, Johannes Brahms and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Admission to the concert is free. Guest soloist [...]
Demonstration of New Digital Organ at Good Shepherd, Arcadia
At 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 22, a demonstration of just how good the new digital organ recently installed at the church is will be given by Robert Tall. The event is open to the public and admission is free. A light lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m. prior to the concert for a suggested [...]
Caltech Jazz Bands 2nd Annual Latin Jazz Concert Jan. 22
Two Caltech Jazz Bands under the direction of William Bing, Director of Bands at Caltech, presents the second annual Latin Jazz Concert at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 22 in Beckman Auditorium on the Caltech campus. Admission to the concert is free. Bing has invited guest artists, composer Paul Lopez, vocalist Candi Sosa, percussionists Robertito Melendez [...]
Coleman Chamber Concert Next Presents the Claremont Trio +, Jan. 23
The Claremont Trio itself is highly regarded having won prestigious awards and received critical acclaim for their 2004 recording on the Arabesque label. When the Claremont Trio performs at the Coleman Chamber Concert at Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 23 they are adding an additional member, violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama, for the Dvorak [...]
Pasadena Symphony January Concert a Collaboration of Youth
When the Pasadena Symphony presents its second concert in the current season of five on Saturday, Jan. 22 (in two performances, at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.) at Ambassador Auditorium—it will be strings all the way in a program of Dvorak, Britten and Elgar. The invited conductor and the guest soloist are twentysomethings who both [...]
James DePreist Relinquishes Conducting Post at Julliard
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS… James DePreist, Artistic Advisor and mover and shaker behind Pasadena Symphony’s recent changes has relinquished his post as director of conducting and orchestral studies at the Julliard School of Music in New York to 43 year-old Alan Gilbert, the music director of the New York Philharmonic, according to a story in [...]
Musica Angelica Presents Bach Songs and Organ Works Jan. 15
Musica Angelica salutes Austria and Austrian musicians with its next concert at Neighborhood Church, Pasadena. At 8:00 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 15, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra will perform a program of Johann Sebastian Bach’s songs, arias and organ works. The concert, supported by the Austrian Consulate General in Los Angeles, features artists who were either born [...]
La Mirada Symphony Preview at Arcadia Presbyterian Jan. 16
Pianist Yin Yin Huang will appear with orchestral pianist Michael Sushel, vocalist Patti Lee and pianist Harold Lee at 4:00 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 16 at the Arcadia Presbyterian Church, Arcadia, in a free concert to promote La Mirada Symphony’s Jan. 22 concert, when Huang will perform Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”. For [...]
