Good-sized Crowd Greeted Cal Phil’s First Summer Concert
A good-sized audience turned out for the opening concert of the California Philharmonic Orchestra’s 15th year to hear “America the Beautiful” as a pre-July 4 tribute in a highly entertaining program chocked full of a variety of musical forms. Everything on the program had an American platform, including, as Cal Phil’s conductor, Victor Vener explained, [...]
Arcadia’s Five-Year Fix-It Program Kicks In
Nearly $40 Million Needed in Next Five Years The City of Arcadia operates just like any homeowner. They look around the place, realize that the driveway really needs replacement, the air conditioner is not only old, but not in realizing today’s energy efficient levels, the shrubs have died of both old age and a beetle [...]
Rescue Plan Underway for an Important Part of Arcadia’s History
Concerns over the condition of what has been known as the Hugo Reid Adobe, the historic adobe on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, have been expressed for years. The roof is in a state of collapse. The walls are weakened. But, finally, a tiny step toward crisis intervention was [...]
Baroque and Brazil to Flavor Santa Cecilia Orchestra Concert
The Santa Cecilia Orchestra claims a special mission to serve the Latino community to stimulate interest in classical music but it serves all of us with its programming. This season the orchestra has scheduled five concerts, the third being held this Sunday, Feb. 21 at 4 p.m. in Thorne Hall on the campus of Occidental [...]
Arcadia Public Library Concert Combines History and Music – Dissonance of War Shows up in Shostakovich Work
Paul Stein, the director of the Classical Kaleidoscope concert series at the Arcadia Public Library, explained to the full house in the Cay Mortensen Auditorium, that the music to be performed by the quintet would be Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet for Piano and Strings in G-minor. He explained that the music would be dissonant, [...]
South Pasadena Shops Support Vietnam Cultural Exchange
Bringing a new meaning to the term “traveling Troubadours”, the Southwest Chamber Music is continuing its tradition of taking its musicians around the world. This time, though, Southwest Chamber will participate in a U.S. State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs program that will see the Grammy-winning ensemble in the two major cities of [...]
Carols We Still Sing Today Tied to the 14th Century
Captain’s Log on English Man-O-War ship: Christmas Day Prayers Followed by “Much Civill Myrth” “Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntates.” This is the Christmas season’s most beloved statement: “Glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace, good will toward men”. As a carol to honor Christ’s birth, this [...]
Holiday Events
Christmas Tree Lane, Altadena’s Historic Avenue Lighted for the Season Altadena’s historic Christmas Tree Lane opens for drive-thoughs of Santa Rosa Ave. after dark. The deodars will remain lit through Jan. 6, 2010. The deodars, planted in 1883, provided a picturesque entrance to the John P. Woodbury Ranch where Woodbury planned a large estate. The [...]
Night of Live Jazz Seasonal Music to Benefit Jazz Institute
Founder and Artistic Director of the Pasadena Jazz Institute, Paul Lines, and Old Pasadena restaurateur André Vener of Redwhite+bluezz have been friends for some time. Lines now finds his Jazz Institute in need of some help and Vener has stepped forward to produce “The Nutcracker Swings, A Cool Jazz Christmas” at 6:00 p.m. Saturday, Dec. [...]
Effort to Oust Assemblyman Anthony Adams Fails
An Orange County Republican who declared that fellow Republican Anthony Adams’ pledge to not raise taxes was broken when the Assemblyman of the 59th District joined Democrats in the California Assembly to vote a tax increase package, has failed in his attempt to recall Adams and remove him from office, the California Secretary of State announced Friday.
