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 […]
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 […]
Pasadena Symphony and Pops’ annual free Music Under The Stars concert is scheduled for June 6 at the Pasadena City Hall Centennial Square. This is the first year that the event will be held in partnership with Make Music Pasadena. The family fun will start at 5:30 p.m. with pre-concert activities, family-style picnicking, and food […]
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 […]
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, […]