Baroque Treats for the Eye, Ear, and Soul

Fri. July 25: 7:00 p.m.  Norton Simon Museum of Art.

411 W. Colorado Boulevard. Pasadena, CA 91105. 626.449.6840.In the Museum’s early-Renaissance gallery, the Harmonia Baroque Players will perform baroque chamber music in addition to medieval and Renaissance-era selections on period instruments.

http://www.harmoniabaroque.org/

Harmonious music wafting among the paintings by Botticelli, Fra Angelico, and Bellini; what better way to soothe your senses and your soul?

Southwest Chamber Music

Fri. July 25 & Sat. July 26. 7:30 p.m.

The Huntington. 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108. 626.405.2100. 

Inspired by the art collections and the new Chinese garden, the program includes works by Carl Friedrich Abel (whose portrait by Gainsborough hangs in the Huntington Art Gallery) and Joan Huang’s Impressions of Suzhou. For more information call 800.726.7147.

Or visit: www.swmusic.org

Program: C. F. Abel. Quartet for Flute and Strings.

J.C Bach. Quartet for Flute and Strings, Op. 19, No. 3.

Joan Huang. Impressions of Suzhou.

Robert Schumann, Fantasy Piece for Clarinet and Piano. Op.73.

L.V Beethoven. Trio No. 7 for Piano, Clarinet, and Cello, Op. 11.

Carl Friedrich Abel.

Thomas Gainsborough. 1777.

Huntington Library Art Collections. San Marino, California.