People in the News… Rose Walker Wins Music Center’s Bravo Award
Rose Walker, a first-grade teacher at Pasadena Unified School District’s McKinley School, has received the Music Center’s 2011 Bravo Award in the Generalist Teacher category. The Bravo Award honors educators and schools for their efforts in visual and performing arts education. Winners are selected by their peers whom they believe exemplify excellence in arts education. [...]
Romantic Era Music Tops Program for Pasadena Symphony Season Opener
It can’t get any better than this: a guest conductor who loves Tchaikovsky, and a young guest violinist who is often compared to Jascha Heifetz. We’re talking about the Pasadena Symphony’s opening season concert that takes place this Saturday, Oct. 29—an afternoon concert at 2:00 p.m. and the evening performance at 8:00 p.m.—at Ambassador Auditorium, [...]
“10 Freedom Summers” by Smith Explores Civil Rights Movement
Southwest Chamber begins its 25th anniversary season at 8:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28 at Redcat (in the Walt Disney Hall complex) with Part One of Wadada Leo Smith’s triptych “Ten Freedom Summers” that explores figures, events and the struggles surrounding the Civil Rights Movement of 1954 to 1964. Part Two will be presented at 8:30 [...]
Doric String Quartet set to play Peter Knell Composition
Mus/ique, Rachael Worby’s new music group, has set the Doric String Quartet to present its first concert ever in Los Angeles, on Monday, Nov. 7 at Pasadena’s Castle Press printing headquarters during which the internationally recognized quartet will perform a new work by Pasadena composer Peter Knell. Knell, whose works have been heard locally in concerts [...]
Big Band Era Music in Sierra Madre Oct. 22
Music from space, you might call it. The Big Band Theory, a group of assorted assembled folks from JPL, play the music of the big-band era at a dinner-concert event at 6:00 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22 at the Sierra Madre United Methodist Church to benefit Family Promise. The music by Big Band Theory tilts to [...]
A Contemporary Look at German Film Classic ‘Nosferatu’
Looking at early silent films has always been awkward for me. First, they are silent. Then, sometimes the quality is not too sharp. And slow. The melodramatic slowness of the acting, of the plot, can seem interminable. That is all changing as Tom Peters prepares a brand new look at the German film classic, the [...]
Were Those the Voices of Angels?
REVIEW… Hearing a choir blend beautifully together in song is one of those mysterious things that seem to raise human emotion to the point of tears. The Los Angeles Master Chorale, under the direction of its music director, Grant Gershon, opened the chorale’s 48th season Sunday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall achieving an [...]
American Composers Forum Contest Winners Music in Pasadena, Oct. 22
American Composers Forum-Los Angeles woodwind ensemble concert will be at 6:00 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22 at the Pasadena Conservatory School of Music by Third Wheel Trio. Winners of the recent competition of new works will be performed. The Trio will play new works by Adrienne Albert, Arbel Bedack, Paul Givson, Mitch Glickman, Garth Herberg , [...]
People in the News… Cal Phil wins honors
Pasadena Weekly announced today the California Philharmonic’s CalPhil Foundation and the orchestra’s conductor, Dr. Victor Vener, have been selected by its readers as winners in the Best Local Nonprofit and Best Local Personality categories. Vener responded to the newspaper’s Reader’s Poll determinations by saying, “We are thrilled and honored to be recognized by our community [...]
Los Angeles Master Chorale Opens New Season Oct. 16
The Los Angeles Master Chorale begins its 48th season at 7:00 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16 at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles. The L A Master Chorale is considered the preeminent professional choir currently performing. Its opening program is designed to show its fullness of sound and deep resonance in such works as Morten Lauridsen’s [...]
