Cultural Events LA: June 28, 29, & 30

This weekend’s Cultural Cocktail recipe includes 1 Part Architecture, A Splash of Schubert, and a Blaue Reiter Fusion! Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered Trademark Color, Line and Form: Alexei Jawlensky and the Music of His Time Fri. June 28 7:00 – 8:00 pm Dr. Polli Chambers-Salazar, pianist Norton Simon Museum of Art.411 W. Colorado Boulevard Pasadena, CA 91105 626.449.6840 http://www.nortonsimon.org/ A New…

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Cultural Events LA: June 14-16

This weekend’s Cultural Cocktail recipe includes 1 Oz. Jazz and a double dose of Opera! Enjoy! Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered Trademark Billy Childs Quartet Fri. June 14th –6 pm Free, no reservations. BP Grand Entrance. LACMA. 5905 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90036. 323 857-6000 http://www.lacma.org/ Los Angeles Dream Orchestra Sat, June 15 7:00 pm In celebration of the 200th birthday of Giuseppe Verdi &…

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Cultural Events June 8th and 9th

This weekend’s Cultural Cocktail recipe includes a Splash of the Renaissance and a Dash of the heart-breaking Tosca! Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered Trademark Gardens of the Renaissance An Illuminated Manuscript Exhibition Getty Center.1200 Getty Center Drive. LA, CA. 90049. (310) 440-7300 http://www.getty.edu/ LA Opera presents Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca Sat. June 8th 7:30 P.M. 135 North Grand Ave. LA, CA 90012 (213)…

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LA Cultural Events May 24th, 25th, & 26th

Memorial Day weekend’s Cultural Cocktail recipe includes 1 dose of Doheny, 2 dashes of Balanchine, and a swirl of Medici Jewels. On the Rocks! Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered Trademark Da Camera Society Horszowski Piano Trio May 24, 8 pm Doheny Mansion Shostakovich Trio No. 1 in C, Op. 8; Dvorák’s Piano Trio No. 3 in f, Op. 65; Piano Trio No.…

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Cultural Events: May 17, 18, & 19th

This weekend’s Cultural Cocktail includes: a tall glass of Mozart, a swirl of Tosca, and a Bollywood Pacific Asian Fusion on a museum dance floor! Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered Trademark Mozart/Da Ponte Trilogy: The Marriage of Figaro Walt Disney Concert Hall Fri, May 17: 7:30 PM Sun. May 19: 2:00pm Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Set design by Jean Nouvel; Costumes…

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Cultural Cocktail Hour- Top Picks May 9th, 10th, & 11th

This week’s Cultural Cocktail recipe: 3 Tablespoons of a well-aged bottle of Bach, a soupçon of Sicily, and a shot of Schoenberg– enjoy! Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered trademark Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra BAROQUE CONVERSATIONS Thurs, May 9, 7pm Zipper Concert Hall. Colburn School. 200 South Grand Ave. LA, CA 90012 Margaret Bajtier, leader & violin;Allan Vogel, oboe d’amore; Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Sinfonia in D minor, “Adagio and…

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LA Cultural Events May 3rd, 4th, & 5th

This weekend’s Cultural Cocktail includes a Splash of Rodin, A Dash of Van Gogh, and a New World Symphony. Enjoy! Rodin SEGERSTROM HALL, Costa Mesa Dates: May 3 – 5 Choreography and staging by Boris Eifman Music by Camille Saint-Saëns, Jules Massenet and Maurice Ravel Fri May 3: 7:30; Sat May 4 2:00 + 7:30; Sun May 5th 2:00 600 Town Center…

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Stradivarius violins and Madrid’s Palacio Real

By Leticia Marie Sanchez All Spain Photography © 2013 Leticia Marie Sanchez Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered trademark One of the largest collections of Stradivarius violins in the world can be found in…Madrid. Madrid’s Palacio Real houses a collection of antique instruments by Antonio Stradivari that includes two violins, two cellos, and a viola. Four of…

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