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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Aiana String Quartet Apr 21 in Alhambra
The Aiana String Quartet, winners of the Coleman Chamber Music’s Coleman-Barstow Prize for Strings in 2011, will present a concert at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, April 21 at Sage-Granada Park United Methodist Church’s Center for the Visual and Performing Arts. This youthful quartet with Rosaminna Watson and Hannah Hurwitz, violins; Mario Andrew, viola; and Jillian Bloom, [...]
Local Handbell Choir at Nixon Library, April 22
The Handbell Choir from Grace Episcopal Church of Glendora will appear at the Nixon Library, Yorba Linda, at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, April 22. Directed by Marilyn Scranton, the very active handbell choir will perform a wide-ranging program entitled “The Sounds of Grace”. The group will perform the music of Fred Grammann, Timothy Waugh, Josef Strauss, [...]
Mozart and Company Presents Pianist Mario Feninger, April 22
The sweeping perspective of concert pianist Mario Feninger is the presentation of Mozart and Company at an intimate concert in a Pasadena home at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 22. Feninger, a native of Egypt, is steeped in the European traditional piano pedagogical regime, but maintains a critical and devoted eye to 20th and 21st-Century sensibilities. [...]
Armadillo String Quartet with Peter Schickele—Again?
The Armadillo String Quartet and Peter Schickele have put up with each other for 32 years. The winners are all of us. For us locally, the Armadillo String Quartet has presented its annual Peter Schickele concert for over two decades and its 22nd annual concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 23 at [...]
‘Random Acts of Music’ Opens Tuesday, April 24 on South Lake Ave
Pasadena Symphony continues to surprise with innovative ideas to bring music out of the symphony hall and into the community. Tuesday, April 24, a new program “Random Acts of Music” presents its inaugural program in the forecourt of Fidelity Investments office on South Lake Ave. This was rescheduled to this date following the drenching downpour of [...]
‘Play Me, I’m Yours’ Tickles Ivories all over town
Braise Delaquoix sat at the piano decorated by Gino Gasparo in the plaza of One Colorado in Old Pasadena. A small crowd gathered to enjoy the music. Delaquoix was assisted by a young player. Others also played. Here’s Bill Peters, editor of Peters Music News trying his hand at the piano at One [...]
Random Acts of Music Takes a Rain-Check to April 24
Rain has caused the cancellation of Carrie Kennedy and Ryan Sweeney’s outdoor concert at Fidelity Investments on South Lake Avenue. Instead, the inaugural concert of Pasadena Symphony’s “Random Acts of Music” has been rescheduled for April 24 – same time, same place.
