Guitarists Alert! Wings’ Laurence Juber in Town May 28
OK. I’m not cool. I can’t give a big rundown on Paul and Linda McCartney or Wings, but I can tell you that Wings lead guitarist Laurence Juber is a fine guitarist. He plays with an unusual crispness that allows you to hear every note (every pluck?) that makes his interpretations smooth and even slick. [...]
New Hollywood String Quartet at South Pasadena Restoration Concerts May 29
It has been an unusually successful concert season for the Friends of the South Pasadena Library as they presented high caliber concerts. Their final concert offers the music of Sergei Prokofiev and Felix Mendelssohn performed by their quartet-in-residence, the New Hollywood String Quartet at 4:00 p.m. Sunday, May 29 in the Community Room of the [...]
Central4 Piano Quartet to Perform “Travels” Using Multi-Media Projections May 29
Central4 piano quartet closes the Music in Sacred Spaces series for the season at Arcadia’s Church of the Good Shepherd at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, May 29. The program will include works by Johannes Brahms, Joaquin Turina and the world premiere of film composer Dan Redfeld’s “Travels”. “Travels”, commissioned by the quartet, uses Redfeld’s experience in [...]
Spiritual Ellington Highlights L A Master Chorale Final Concert of the Season, May 22
Grant Gershon, Music Director/Conductor of the Los Angeles Master Chorale concludes the chorale’s 47th season and Gershon’s 10th year with the distinguished singers at 7:00 p.m. Sunday, May 22 at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The program will present selections from Duke Ellington’s “Sacred Concerts”. “The ‘Sacred Concerts’,” Gershon explained, “are one part gospel, two parts [...]
Crown City Symphony to Present Violinist Nanagyulyan and Tubist Woods May 21 and 22 in Music of Armenia, Bohemia and Italy
Two free concerts are scheduled by the Crown City Symphony for 2:00 p.m. Saturday, May 14 at St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Church, Pasadena; 2:00 p.m. Saturday, May 21 at the Altadena Senior Center, Altadena; and 2:00 p.m. Sunday, May 22 at the First Baptist Church, Pasadena. The program includes music from Armenia, Italy and [...]
Caitlin Kelley Solos with Pasadena Community Orchestra May 20
Caitlin Kelley performs Max Bruch’s gypsy spirited Violin Concerto No. 1 in G-minor as guest artist with the Pasadena Community Orchestra at 8:00 p.m. Friday, May 20 at the First Church of the Nazarene, Pasadena. Kelley recently received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the Colburn School of Performing Arts’ Conservatory of Music in Los [...]
Camerata Pacifica to Conclude 21st Season Tuesday May 17 at Huntington
“This has been an extraordinary season,” proclaimed Adrian Spence, Artistic Director of Camerata Pacifica. Indeed, it has and the last opportunity to hear them this season will be at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 17 at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino. The core ensemble, Catherine Leonard, violin; Richard Yongjae O’Neill, viola; [...]
Rachael Worby Returns to Pasadena to Form New Orchestra
Rachael Worby, whose conducting performances with the Pasadena Pops Orchestra at Descanso Gardens and at Lot H at the Rose Bowl developed a large and loyal following, has announced her return to the San Gabriel Valley as the artistic director of a new orchestra, Muse/ique. Worby’s new orchestra will carry on her tradition of presenting [...]
Pasadena Young Musicians Orchestra at PCC May 15
Director Jo Raquel Stoup of the Pasadena Young Musicians Orchestra joins forces with Paul Smith, conductor of the Northridge Singers at California State University, Northridge, to jointly bring music representing nearly six countries: from Austria and Russia, to Africa, Mexico and the United States at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 15 at Sexson Auditorium on the [...]
Tumbling Tumbleweeds Rides on in to Coffee Gallery Backstage May 14
Tumbling Tumbleweeds brings its unique style of cowboy ballads and songs to Altadena’s Coffee Gallery Backstage at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, May 14. Tumbling Tumbleweeds, now celebrating its fifth year in singing in the style of The Sons of the Pioneers, has racked up award after award leading to their latest song, “California” appearing as number [...]
