Only Three More Arcadia Community Concerts
Thoughts of returning to school this fall may be swirling in some of our neighbor’s minds, but it is still summertime for the City of Arcadia’s Thursday night 2008 Summer Concert series. Three concerts remain on the schedule: Juke Box Heroes on Aug. 7; Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder on Aug. 14 and Nannett and Her Hotsy [...]
Death of Long-time Pasadena Symphony Music Contractor
Nathan Kaproff, personnel manager and contractor for the Pasadena Symphony for many years, died Wednesday, July 30 at age 86. The cause of death was unknown. Kaproff, as contractor, would hire musicians for each performance. It was his job to be certain that the free-lance musicians that are the mainstay of local orchestras would be [...]
Union Settles with Orchestras of Pasadena
Although the acquisition of the Pasadena Pops Orchestra by the Pasadena Symphony Association took place on October 1 of last year and the Pops summer season is about half-way through, it took until last week for Professional Musicians Local 47 and the newly formed The Orchestras of Pasadena to reach an agreement on how to [...]
Guitarra Exotica with Guitarist Jim Stubblefield
Jim Stubblefield is scheduled to perform with his quartet, Guitarra Exotica, on Thursday, Aug. 14 at the Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena. Showtime is 8 p.m. Guitarist Stubblefield has a band, Incendio, that has done well in CDs and on several TV shows. Incendio has a strong following and is a Billboard charting band. But [...]
Cal Phil Soloist leaves for Broadway: We knew him ‘when’
Kevin Earley Baritone Kevin Earley has been a California Philharmonic Orchestra favorite since almost the beginning of the Festival on the Green concerts. And so has Suzanna Guzmán. They appeared together in 2002 singing the songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber. The two of them appear at the Los Angeles County Arboretum in Arcadia at 7:30 [...]
