A Sensible Don Giovanni Production by Repertory Opera Company
While L A Opera presents “Don Giovanni” at the Walt Disney Concert Hall with sets of crinkled white paper and a big orchestra and a big-name conductor, out in Pomona, Repertory Opera Company brought to a small, but enthusiastic audience, its version of “Don Giovanni”,the 1787 Mozart opera, to the First Christian Church, Pomona last [...]
A Salute to Armed Forces Day: Taps
When we think of honoring American soldiers, nothing is more of a humbling tribute than the simple tune played on a bugle: Taps. Today, Armed Forces Day, has been set aside to recognize, as President Obama declared in his Presidential Proclamation, to “pay tribute to the unparalleled service of our Armed Forces and recall the [...]
Original Compositions by Synchromy Performed by Midnight Winds May 20
A collective of Los Angeles-based composers, named Synchromy, will have new and original works performed by Midnight Winds, a wind quintet, at Pasadena’s Lineage Performing Arts Center at 6:00 p.m. Sunday, May 20. Synchromy composers Jason Barabba, Jenni Brandson, John Frantzen and Vera Ivanova, plus guest composers Adrienne Albert and Dwayne Milburn will have their [...]
Piano Store Opens in Pasadena
Generations of Pasadenans have encouraged a love of classical music. As early as 1904, Alice Coleman Batchelder founded the Coleman Chamber Music. In 1906, Batchelder, along with Marjorie Branson, Vera Barlow and Barbara Ebert took the lead in establishing the Tuesday Musicale. Both groups are still going strong. Even when Pasadena was a small town, [...]
Cellist Laszlo Mezo with Crown City Symphony May 13, May 19
Crown City Symphony has attracted cellist Laszlo Mezo to solo with the orchestra at its May concerts. The first concert is at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, May 13 at the First Baptist Church of Pasadena; the second, 2:00 p.m. Saturday, May 19 at the Altadena Community Church. Marvin Neumann is the Crown City Symphony conducts, however [...]
“Don Giovanni” by Repertory Opera Company, May 9, 12, 19
“Don Giovanni”, or “Don Juan”, Mozart’s serio-comic opera, will be given a local performance by the Repertory Opera Company. Final performances will be held May 9, May 12, and May 19 at the First Christian Church in Pomona. The company, now in its 8th season, is drawing on a cast of younger singers now making [...]
Donald Brinegar Heads New JPL Chorus
Jet Propulsion Laboratories employees at the La Cañada Flintridge facility have joined with the Pasadena Symphony to create the JPL Chorus. Their inaugural performance is at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 5 at Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena. The new chorus, officially titled the JPL Chorus of the Pasadena Symphony Association, is under the direction of Pasadena Symphony [...]
Summer Concert Promos Get in Gear for the 2012 Picnic and Music Season
Mayday. Mayday. That’s the day when our local music-makers begin to tout their summer season programs. Pasadena Symphony and Pops has begun a telephone sales pitch for their four-concert series at the Arboretum which begins June 16. CalPhil just released a notice of its five-concerts (plus replays at Walt Disney Concert Hall) at the Santa [...]
Sarah Wallin Huff Reaches into the Soul of a Machine in Arcadia Concert, Apr. 28
Sarah Wallin Huff will have her 2007 composition recorded through a $7,500 KickStarter project. A string quartet will perform at the Our Savior Lutheran Church, Arcadia at 3:00 p.m. Saturday, Apr. 28 playing works by Beethoven, Dvorak, and violinist Sarah Wallin Huff. Huff, joined by violinist Doris Chiang, violist Miguel Cunanan and cellist Anne Sherrill, [...]
Pasadena Symphony Apr. 28 with Christine Brewer: Soprano Sings with Warmth, Brilliance
Here is a concert not to be missed: Pasadena Symphony, this Saturday, April 28 at Ambassador Auditorium, two performances, 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Through, apparently, Pasadena Symphony’s Artistic Advisor, James DePreist, the Symphony was able to attract American soprano Christine Brewer to perform in Pasadena. Unfortunately, DePreist, who was originally scheduled to conduct this [...]
