U S and Latin Influences in Pacific Serenades New CD
Pacific Serenades is a chamber group that regularly performs in Pasadena at the Neighborhood Church on Orange Grove Boulevard. Its 26-year distinguished record of performing and promoting living conductors has set it apart from most other groups. Also, while commissioning 90 new works by 48 different composers, it has gathered a string of notable awards [...]
Pasadena POPS: American Songs and Poetry
Pasadena-born Khori Dastoor, soprano, sings with Pasadena POPS this week-end. The Pasadena POPS will present “I Hear America Singing” this week-end, Friday, Aug. 15, Saturday, Aug. 16 and Sunday, Aug 17 at Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge with gates opening at 5:30 p.m. for picnicking and showtime 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and [...]
Arcadia Library Concert 2008-2009 Series Announced
The Arcadia Public Library Foundation has announced their concert series for the 2008-2009 season of four concerts, the first to be held Oct. 1 in the Cay Mortenson Auditorium at the Library. Concerts are held Wednesdays at 7 p.m. and are free to the public. Concert dates are Oct. 1, Dec. 3, Feb. 4, and [...]
Double Duty for Ayke Agus at Cal Phil’s “Movie Magic”
Hear About Southwest Chamber’s Concert of Aug. 8 and 9
Jeff von der Schmidt, Artistic Director of Southwest Chamber Music, tells about the program for their next concert which is this Friday, Aug 8 and Saturday, Aug. 9 at The Huntington Library in San Marino. The group performs on the Loggia of the Art Gallery and also opens the lawn for seating. Concerts begin at [...]
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 [...]
Summer Concerts Rock On at Levitt Pavilion
Levitt Pavilion at Memorial Park, Pasadena, continues the most energetic and ambitious summer music concert program of the region. Presenting programs, each a differing style of music, from Wednesdays through Sundays, it is a longer season than most other city presentations for these free community concerts. Concerts at Levitt Pavilion will continue through Sunday, Sept. [...]
Sierra Madre Kiwanis Sponsors The Grove at the Park in Sierra Madre
The next Sierra Madre Summer Concert in the Park will be under the sponsorship of the Sierra Madre Kiwanis Club on Sunday, Aug. 10 at 6 p.m. The Grove, a group that belts out songs of the 1970′s and ’80s will be on hand at Memorial Park to entertain. Two more concerts remain on the [...]
Monrovia Summer Sounds: Instant Replay to Play 1960′s Surf Music
Jan and Dean. The Temptations. The Doobie Brothers. The Beach Boys. These are the names of the groups that Instant Replay (instant recall?) perform in their tribute to the music of the 1960s, 70s and 1980s. Jim Mutchler, Brian Brehm and Dweighn Secrist were outrageous kids at Pacifica High School in Garden Grove. But time, [...]
Jazz Jams at Pasadena Jazz Institute
Monday night on Colorado Boulevard is not exactly a hot spot. Traffic on the Boulevard was non-existent. But, that doesn’t stop Paul Lines, Executive Director of the Pasadena Jazz Institute, from bringing in a 16-piece jazz band, led by trumpeter Winston Bird, to jam at his Institute headquarters upstairs on the Colorado Terrace in Paseo [...]