Music
Keep your rotten plants away from me! According to eminent music critic, Harold C. Schonberg in his book, The Great Conductors (Simon & Schuster 1967) German maestro Hans von Bülow cringed at the idea of being crowned, Apollo-style, with plants. When…
Read MoreThe Pasadena Symphony: Old Friends Immortalized– the Kramer Effect By Leticia Marie Sanchez On Saturday evening, in its incarnation at the Ambassador Auditorium, the Pasadena Symphony came alive. 27-year old guest conductor Tito Muñoz led the symphony on an exploration of Benjamin Britten’s “Soirees Musicales”, Dvorák’s “Cello Concerto in B minor,…
Read MoreA STAR (OF THE OPERA) IS BORN! Metropolitan Opera Western Regional Auditions Finals to take place Saturday, October 23, 2010 – 1 p.m. Zipper Concert Hall at The Colburn School. The roster of renowned singers whose early careers involved competing in the Metropolitan Opera…
Read MoreTwo-day Conference: “Wagner in LA: The Opera of the 21st Century?” June 1–2, 2010, 10 am–6 pm Hammer Museum 1pm Spectral Gesamtkunstwerk Juliet Koss, Chair, Department of Art History, Scripps College 2:30pm Re-Inventing Bayreuth for the 21st Century: The 2007 Meistersinger as…
Read MoreApril 15 – June 30, 2010 The first ever presentation in Los Angeles of the four-opera drama The Ring of the Nibelung. For a full listing of events, please visit: http://www.ringfestivalla.com/ for the multiplicity of events from not only LA Opera,…
Read MoreRobert v. Fullerton Art Museum California State University, San Bernardino “Timeless Enchantment: Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung in Performance, from Bayreuth in 1876 to LA in 2010,” May 12, 2010, 5 pm Info: museum.csusb.edu or (909) 537-5000. 5500 University…
Read MoreMusical Performance Fri. February 26 Performer Polli Chambers-Salazar links composers Scriabin and Hindemith to Jawlensky, Klee, and other painters after Ingres. 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. TheaterNorton Simon Museum of Art.411 W. Colorado Boulevard Pasadena, CA 91105 626.449.6840 http://www.nortonsimon.org/
Read MoreRichard Goode: Richard the Great by Leticia Marie Sanchez Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of New York: Richard Goode, Richard the Great. Audiences at the Walt Disney Concert Hall attending his January 19 recital…
Read MorePerformance by Principal Artists of Camerata Pacifica & Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, 555 W Temple St LA, CA 90012 Boyce; Symphony Nº1 in B Flat Major, Opus 2; Bach; Concerto for Oboe & Violin in D…
Read MoreA New World at the Pasadena Symphony by Leticia Marie Sanchez Peter Adams’ painting, The Pools Above Sturtevant Falls, graced the entrance of the Pasadena Symphony on Saturday, April 18. Mr. Adams’ painting of the cataracts in Santa Anita Canyon beckons the viewer to take…
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