Holiday Cheer is upon us!
These Carolers, the Dickens Christmas Carolers, and songsters Remember When will be in Kersting Court in Sierra Madre on Saturday, Nov. 28 from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. as part of Sierra Madre’s Dickens Village Fair. The Carolers are available for all holiday functions and can be reached by calling (626) 230-5435 or at bizwind@yahoo.com Many [...]
Coming Next Week: Christmas Music
Santa Cecilia Orchestra 17th Season opens Nov. 22
The Santa Cecilia Orchestra under the direction of music director/conductor Sonia Marie De Léon de Vega continues its special mission to serve the Latino community as it opens its 17th season at 4:00 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22 in Thorne Hall, Occidental College. November 22, it turns out, is St. Cecilia Feast Day. Music’s patron saint [...]
Southwest Chamber Music Tour Preview Concert Nov 16
Southwest Chamber Music has a spectacular resumé to its name, including two Grammys. Now they are taking the act (so to speak) on the road. First to Guadalajara, Mexico in November and next Spring to Vietnam. Southwest Chamber will give a Tour Preview Performance of its trip to the Mexican State of Jalisco at the [...]
Sunday Afternoon Jazz at South Pasadena Library Nov 15
At least once a year the Friends of the South Pasadena Library present a jazz program as part of their otherwise totally classical series, Sunday Afternoon Restoration Concert Series. For the Sunday, Nov. 15 concert the Restoration Series will bring in one of jazz’ premiere saxophonists, Pete Christlieb; and Christlieb in turn is bringing along [...]
Music at Noon at Pasadena Pres
For years, the Pasadena Presbyterian Church has presented outstanding musicians performing a brief noon-time concert in the sanctuary of their church. Each Wednesday classical music artists present a 40-minute recital-concert designed to lift the spirits at mid-day. This Wednesday, Oct. 28, Roger Lebow, cellist, will appear with pianist Louise King presenting the music of Oscar [...]
Arcadia Public Library to Celebrate Chinese Music Oct 21
The fifth season of the Arcadia Public Library’s A Classical Kaleidoscope begins at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21 in Cay Mortenson Auditorium at the library when Zhiming Han and Cynthia Hsiang return for their second appearance at this series with the music of both contemporary and ancient China. Cynthia Hsiang, an adjunct professor of Asian [...]
USC Announces $6M in gifts to Music School; Celebrates School’s 125th Year
In a region that celebrates the latest in everything: from fashion and architecture to fads, finding something that has been around 125 years continuously advancing the cause of music in Los Angeles is truly a phenomenon. We recommend that you stand up, raise a toast, and drink to a cultural icon, the University of Southern [...]
POPS Ends Season With a Stroke of Genius
It’s over. It’s the final concert of the summer season for the Pasadena Symphony Association’s garden concerts given by the Pasadena POPS and it will be the last time the orchestra will perform at Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge before moving to a spot near the Rose Bowl next summer. The season’s last performance [...]
Jade Simmons, Pianist at Norton Simon Museum Aug. 28
Artists’ aesthetics and influences are the subject of a current exhibit at Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum and the musical portion will be presented in a special concert by pianist Jade Simmons at 7:00 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28. Spanish painter Pablo Picasso and Russian composer Alexander Scriabin are from a similar era, both were extraordinarily talented [...]
