Tag: Ambassador Auditorium

The Pasadena Symphony opens its new season with Mozart’s Requiem

The Pasadena Symphony’s 2018-19 season will get off to a grand start on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018 at Ambassador Auditorium with both matinee and evening performances (at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm) of Mozart’s beautiful Requiem. Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No. 3 and Elgar’s Introduction & Allegro will round out the emotive program, culminating in Robert Levin’s 20th […]

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Extend your Valentine’s to the weekend with the Pasadena Symphony

Music Director David Lockington will return to the podium this Saturday, Feb. 17, for Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite at the Ambassador Auditorium with performances at 2:00 and 8:00 pm. The Pasadena Symphony arrives just in time to celebrate your Valentine’s weekend with the impassioned music of Stravinsky, Dvořák’s tribute to a long-lost love in his rapturous […]

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Take a musical tour of Europe with the Pasadena Symphony

How about flying through Scotland, Italy, and Turkey, all in one evening and without leaving town? Principal Guest Conductor Nicholas McGegan is returning to lead the Pasadena Symphony at the Ambassador Auditorium on Saturday, March 18th, for a European tour of musical masterpieces featuring Felix Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony and Schubert’s Overture in the Italian Style. Virtuoso violinist Rachel […]

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Pasadena Symphony at Ambassador Auditorium

This Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016, Music Director David Lockington and the Pasadena Symphony will continue their Singpoli Classics Series with Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.  A powerhouse program from start to finish, the repertoire will open to a great piece of Americana – Copland’s Appalachian Spring, topped off by the Russian folktale – Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. The Pasadena […]

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Be ‘An American in Paris’ with the Pasadena Symphony

The Pasadena Symphony will close out its Singpoli Classics Series on April 30 with matinee and evening performances of Gershwin’s An American in Paris at the Ambassador Auditorium. This French-themed season finale will pay homage to Gershwin’s iconic Jazz Age composition and will feature the youngest-ever Van Cliburn silver medalist recipient, Joyce Yang. The program for this […]

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Celebrate Valentines in Pasadena with a love letter penned to music.

The Pasadena Symphony will continue this season’s concerts with Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto for a powerful and romantic Valentine’s program on Saturday, February 13, at Pasadena’s Ambassador Auditorium. Music Director David Lockington will return to the podium for the Symphony’s ode to romance, which pairs Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2 with Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece. One of the most-loved violin concertos ever written, Tchaikovsky composed his […]

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Spring concerts in Pasadena for this weekend and upcoming.

May 2 – Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Martinez at the Ambassador Auditorium The Pasadena Symphony will conclude its season on Saturday, May 2, with Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Martinez performing Grieg’s popular piano concerto at the Ambassador Auditorium with matinee and evening performances at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. The romantic Piano Concerto written by Edvard Grieg, “the Chopin […]

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Pasadena Symphony presents Symphony No. 6 on March 21.

You have a chance to experience Beethoven’s “painting” of the great outdoors this Saturday, March 21, during the Pasadena Symphony’s performance of his Symphony No. 6, also known as the “Pastoral Symphony,” at the Ambassador Auditorium. Did you know that Beethoven loved nature so much that he often took long walks in the countryside? (Today, […]

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