Pomona College Orchestra Presents Concerto Competition Winners
This year’s Concerto Competition winners are Sonya Usell, piano, and Eddie Sayles, Tenor. They will perform with the Pomona College Orchestra, Eric Lindholm conductor, at 8:00 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25 and again at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27 at Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College, Claremont. Admission to this concert is free. Each October or [...]
Joshua Bell, violin, Performs at the White House – - –
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Tribute to Paul Shure, former Pasadena Symphony concertmaster
People in the news… Paul Shure served as concertmaster of the Pasadena Symphony in the 1980′s, helping to re-invent the symphony during its close-to-bankruptcy crisis that was resolved with the hiring of Jorge Mester. Shure died on December 8, 2010 at age 89 at his home in Seattle. Prior to performing Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 [...]
Pasadena Symphony Brewing with Success
REVIEW… The Pasadena Symphony’s second concert of the four-concert season at Ambassador Auditorium last Saturday was an occasion brewing with success: a sure-handed guest conductor, a full-spectrum pull-out-the-stops guest pianist, beautiful ensemble playing by the symphony’s musicians, the sonic purity of a famed auditorium, and a check for $500,000. Nothing was amiss other than a [...]
AlmaNova flute and guitar duo at Music at Noon Feb. 23
AlmaNova flute and guitar duo will appear at the Pasadena Presbyterian Church’s Music at Noon, 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 23. The duo consists of two classically trained musicians, but young enough to know their way around lots of styles and types of music. Flutist Jessica Pierce began her studies in Northern California at Santa Clara University. [...]
Join the Choir – Make Beautiful Music – Rehearsals begin Feb. 24
The call is out for singers to join the growing First Presbyterian Church Concert Choir at the First Presbyterian Church of Monrovia to begin rehearsals for their annual Good Friday and Meditation service (April 22). This year the choir will perform Daniel Gawthrop’s “Behold the Mystery”, a 1997 work. First rehearsal is from 7:30 p.m. [...]
More—Invitation to Join the Kirk Choir in Pasadena Beginning March 3
The Kirk Choir at the Pasadena Presbyterian Church has been one of the premier church choirs in Southern California since the 1940′s. Guest singers are invited to join this chorus as it prepares for the traditional Good Friday service, April 22, when it will perform Gabriel Fauré’s beautiful Requiem, with orchestra. Rehearsals will begin 7:30 [...]
Mozart Seldom Heard Opera for Musica Angelica Feb. 19
“Zaida” is a comic opera that Mozart began to compose, but found a number of obstacles prevented the completion. Mozart finished Act I and Act II but never returned to the project. Now, this rarely heard opera will be performed by Musica Angelica at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 19 at the First United Methodist Church, [...]
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio visit Gold Room at the Civic Feb. 20
The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio has visited Pasadena several times over the years thrilling audiences with their superior musical acumen. They return to Pasadena for a performance of a program of the music of Beethoven, Ravel and Mendelssohn at 4:00 p.m Sunday, Feb. 20 as part of the Da Camera Society’s Music in Historic site—the site is the [...]
Borodin Quartet Performs Sunday Feb. 20 at Beckman Auditorium
Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, and Borodin’s music will be performed by the famed Borodin Quartet at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20 at Beckman Auditorium on the campus of Caltech as part of the Coleman Chamber Concert series. With a history of chamber performances that go back 66 years, and the highest honors accorded to chamber groups, the [...]
