Tag: Classical Music

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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Young pianist Max Hammond to perform with the Pasadena Community Orchestra

Every year, the Pasadena Community Orchestra (PCO) holds a competition to identify, assist, and feature talented young musicians in the furtherance of their musical career and education. This is a project funded in part by the City of Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission. This year, young pianist Max Hammond (17) will perform Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto […]

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Pittance Chamber Music to perform at Pasadena Conservatory of Music  

The Pittance Chamber Music’s 2017/18 concert season will continue on Saturday, April 14, at 7:30 pm, at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music, with Three’s Company: Music for Unique Combinations of Three – repertoire written for groups of three. The music will be performed by distinguished artists from the ranks of the Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles […]

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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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The Pasadena Community Orchestra presents its first 2018 concert

The Pasadena Community Orchestra invites you to its first concert of the year, on Friday, Jan. 26, at 8 pm, when it will perform Mendelssohn’s “Overture for Winds,” Beethoven’s “Ah perfido!,” Op. 65 with Anita Protich as soprano soloist, and Mendelssohn’s “Symphony No. 4” under the baton of Music Director Beth Pflueger. Felix Mendelssohn was […]

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Catch the upcoming LACO ‘Bach’ concert at Caltech

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) will perform the complete cycle of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, featuring harpsichord master Mahan Esfahani, on Saturday, Dec. 9, at 8 pm, at the Beckman Auditorium, at Caltech, in Pasadena. The same concert will also be performed on Sunday, Dec. 10, at 7 pm, at Royce Hall, UCLA.  The popular […]

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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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