Bach Cello Suites by Baroque Cellist at Flintridge Academy April 3
Tanya Tompkins, an early music specialist—and equally at home on the baroque cello as she is on the modern cello, brings her enormous talent to the Da Camera Society of the Chamber Music in Historic Sites Nakamichi Series at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 3. The historic site for the recital is the Flintridge Sacred Heart [...]
Age of Enlightenment Treasures Will be Heard April 3; Concert to Benefit Japan Victims
Enlightenment Chamber Music Series has scheduled another in its series of chamber compositions to explore some of the lesser known pieces of “Forgotten Treasures” from the Age of Enlightenment era. Its next concert is at 4:00 p.m. Sunday, April 3 at Neighborhood Church in Pasadena. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted for the [...]
Violinist Paul Stein, Cellist David Garrett with Pasadena Community Orchestra
The Pasadena Community Orchestra, Alan Reinecke, conductor, present the music of Carl Nielsen and Johannes Brahms at 8:00 p.m. Friday, March 25 at the First Church of the Nazarene, Pasadena. Admission is free. Reinecke’s orchestra is made up of highly talented musicians who have, for the most part, moved on to jobs outside music (although [...]
Gupta, Reznik in PCC Guest Artist Recital March 26
Violinist Robert Gupta and pianist Yana Reznik will be heard in a recital program at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, March 26 at Harbeson Hall on the campus of Pasadena City College. The PCC Guest Artist program hosts Gupta in a Master Class Series beginning at noon on March 23 and continuing daily through March 28. The [...]
Camerata Pacifica Audience Attendance Figures Up 200% But Los Angeles Numbers Flag
Note: Updated program information for the March concerts is listed at the end of the article–ed. Adrian Spence, Artistic Director of Camerata Pacifica announced today that while the chamber ensemble may have come through a rough patch the past few years, more people are attending their concerts. Locally, Camerata Pacifica performs at The Huntington Library [...]
Expressive Conducting by Stelluto Achieves Bright Sound
REVIEW… The Pasadena Symphony’s next-to-last concert of the 2010-2011 season last Saturday demonstrated the wisdom of the orchestra’s move from the somber acoustics of the Pasadena Civic Auditorium to the bright—and exacting—sound that its current home at Ambassador Auditorium produces. Led by guest conductor George Stelluto in a program of the music of Felix Mendelssohn, [...]
March 12 and 13: Week-end Concerts Provide Music Choices
Pasadena Symphony is at the Ambassador Auditorium with two performances: at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Saturday, March 12. Guest conductor is George Stelluto; guest soloist is Karine Hovhannisyan playing a 72-string Middle Eastern lap harp called the kanun. The program includes excerpts from Felix Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Symphony No. [...]
Brahms Like You’ve Never Heard it Before
CD Review… Zuill Bailey represents all the best in classical music: training at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and the Julliard School; fabulous cello to perform on—a 1693 Matteo Gofriller cello; a performer increasingly sought as cello soloist with orchestras across the country; good press reviews that don’t seem to stop; recording artist that saw [...]
People in the news…Joseph Silverstein to Lead Masterclasses at USC
Fresh from leading masterclasses at New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, famed violinist Joseph Silverstein will arrive in Los Angeles for a week-long residency at USC’s Thornton School of Music during which Silverstein will talk, teach, play and otherwise commiserate with young musicians from the school and others about the task of performing [...]
Christoph Bull at Shumei Hall March 9 for the kids and adults
The Shumei Arts Council has invited Christoph Bull to perform at the organ in a program designed to introduce the wonders of music and the colors of the organ in a concert at noon Wednesday, March 9 at Shumei Hall, Pasadena. Bull, a UCLA Professor and University organist has become the leading advocate of the [...]
