Arcadia Public Library Concert Season Begins Oct 5
The eagerly awaited concert series, Classical Kaleidoscope, at the Arcadia Public Library begins at 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5 with a string quartet performing the music of Ludwig van Beethoven. “Our first concert will feature one of Beethoven’s late string quartets, opus 130, with the haunting and other-worldly Cavatina movement,” Artistic Director of the concert [...]
Jacques Loussier’s Jazzy Take on Robert Schumann’s Kinderszenen
CD REVIEW… Release date: Sept. 27, 2011 There is always a push-pull quality about “serious” classical music and “serious” jazz. The Jacques Loussier Trio, in his latest CD for Telarc records which is being released today, is yet another example of a trained classical pianist taking on the classics. Loussier, now 77, has made a [...]
Andreas Klein, Pianist in Free Concert at Azusa Pacific Sept. 29
Pianist Andreas Klein will present a special concert at 8:00 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29 on the campus of Azusa Pacific University. By special arrangement with the artist, this campus appearance will be free and open to the public. Klein has established himself as an international pianist who the New York Times described as a dynamic [...]
Food, Fun and Pasadena Pops at City Hall Plaza Sept 24
An outdoor music celebration will culminate Pasadena’s 125th anniversary at the re-opening of the plaza in front of Pasadena’s City Hall as Centennial Square at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24. The Bank of America Music Under the Stars with the Pasadena Symphony and Pops is the Pasadena Symphony Association’s yearly gift to the community. The [...]
Schubert “Trout” Quintet on Central4 Program in Arcadia Sept. 23
Central4′s four principal players, violinist Elizabeth Hedman, violist Michael Lieberman, cellist Paula Fehrenbach and pianist Timothy Durkovic will be joined by violist Aaron Oltman and double bassist Thomas Harte at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23 at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Arcadia for three important classical works—and in support of two community charities. The [...]
Jazz and Classical Music for Upper Hastings Ranch Assn Benefit Sept. 10
The 3rd annual Mid Summer Night Concert Under the Stars will present a piano trio and jazz artists to accompany the Upper Hastings Ranch Association benefit at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10 at a private home that sports a terrace overlooking the entire city of Pasadena. Concert producer Nat Nehdar is bringing back artists that [...]
Michael Sellers in Recital at Pasadena Presbyterian Church Sept. 7
Concert pianist Michael Sellers has returned from his 27th European tour. Music at Noon gave Sellers a send-off last November at the beginning of the tour and now you can hear this celebrated pianist’s keyboard brilliance at 12:00 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7. at the next Music at Noon recital at the Pasadena Presbyterian Church. Sellers [...]
Thomas Hampson in ‘Song of America’, Pomona College, Sept. 16
Baritone Thomas Hampson has been an enthusiast of American song, in fact he has been dubbed the “Ambassador of American song”. When the acclaimed singer joined forces with the Library of Congress to celebrate the history of creativity in America in a program of songs from the library’s collection Hampson began what is now a [...]
