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Two concerts that you don't want to miss are landing at The Rose in Pasadena and the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills in the month of June. On June 16 at The Rose, the esteemed Canadian folk-music legend Gordon Lightfoot, with 50 years in the music business, will be treating his adoring fans to his poetic songwriting and vocal excellence. He resides with some very exclusive company atop the list of all-time greats having recorded 20 albums with five Grammy nominations. His songs, airing regularly for...
he Culver City Symphony Orchestra concludes its 2016-17 Season with aconcert, Sounds of Downtown, Saturday, June 10 at 7:30 pm., with the orchestra returning to the intimate and beautiful Kirk Douglas Theatre, Downtown Culver City, 9820 Washington. There is free parking underneath City Hall, behind the theatre, entrance from Duquesne. Americans, and Music From (The Time Of) HamiltonFounding Father Alexander Hamilton (Jan. 11, 1757-Jul. 12, 1804), was acontemporary of the two Classical Period...
Joseph Calleja, the Grammy-nominated Maltese tenor, traveled to the Broad Stage in Santa Monica and showed the audience why he has one of the very best voices in opera right now as he celebrated the musical life of Mario Lanza with a full orchestra led by Maestro Jader Bignamini.Blessed with a golden-age voice, he is compared to famous singers from earlier eras like Jussi Bjorling and Enrico Caruso. He has quickly become one of the most acclaimed and sought-after tenors today and has made...
Not only did the Verdi Chorus present their spring concerts entitled "All's Fair in Love and War," but they also presented the inaugural and long-awaited concerts featuring The Walter Fox Singers, thirteen section leaders that were given the opportunity to showcase their talent in a show called "A Salute To Young Love." Both presentations were a smashing success and held at the acoustically-sound First United Methodist Church in Santa Monica. Their Founding Artistic Director/Conductor Anne...
Award-winning songwriter and virtuoso instrumentalist Molly Tuttle turns a new corner with Rise, her debut as a solo artist. Produced by Kai Welch, the seven-song EP will be independently released on June 2. She will perform live at Boulevard Music in Culver on Friday May 8 at 8 pm.Already a familiar face in bluegrass circles and folk festivals, where she's been performing since the age of 11, Tuttle widens her reach with Rise. "I wanted to push outside the box," she says of the EP, whose songs mix the fiery fretwork of her acoustic guitar...
The Verdi Chorus continues its 34th season with spring concerts entitled "All's Fair in Love and War" at the acoustically-sound First United Methodist Church in Santa Monica on April 29 and 30. Their Founding Artistic Director/Conductor Anne Marie Ketchum and Julliard-trained piano accompanist Laraine Ann Madden have fashioned the first half of the program with choral numbers and arias of Vincenzo Bellini's La Sonnambula, I Puritani, and Act I and the finale of Act II from Norma. The second...
By Steven Lieberman Observer Reporter Two concerts that you don't want to miss are landing at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills and the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills in April. On April 8 at the Saban Theatre Mr. Las Vegas is back with "Wayne Newton: Up Close and Personal," a show unlike any he has ever done before, boasting a compilation of all of his greatest hits. He will sing crowd favorites including the platinum record "Danke Schoen," as well as engage with the audience by answering...
Five concerts that you don't want to miss are landing at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills in the month of March. On March 5, original vocalist and current member Henry Fambrough and his Spinners will be delighting the audience with their sophisticated, up-tempo R&B songs and precision choreography that made them famous. With over 60 million records sold over their illustrious career, they have performed for Presidents, received six Grammy nominations, and have appeared on Soul Train and many...
Legendary singer-songwriter Don McLean will be "driving his chevy to the" Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on February 25 on his 2017 concert tour. He is best known for his magnum opus, "American Pie," an impressionistic ballad inspired partly by the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. The song popularized the expression "The Day the Music Died" in reference to this event. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in...
Coming to the Saban Theatre on February 11 is a trio of exceptional female talent. Multiple Grammy Award-winner Olivia Newton-John, Grammy nominee Beth Nielsen Chapman and SOCAN Award-winner Amy Sky take the stage to lend their vocal, songwriting, and performing talents to create a special "LIV ON" collaborative concert. "LIV ON" is an album about grief and healing that was released in October 2016 to help inspire those who wish to transcend loss while walking a journey toward new-found meaning...
Jim Messina -- songwriter, singer, guitarist, recording engineer and record producer -- is back on the road again with his 2017 solo tour, which will be making a stop at the intimate Smothers Theatre on the campus of Pepperdine University in Malibu on January 29. One half of Loggins & Messina, co-founder of the country-rock band Poco, and member and key contributor to folk-rock group Buffalo Springfield, Messina, 69, has left an indelible footprint on popular music, selling over 20 million...
By Steven Lieberman Observer Reporter Musica Angelica, an internationally renowned baroque orchestra based in Southern California and led by music director Martin Haselbock - award-winning harpsichordist, conductor and composer - treated their audience to their annual holiday concert featuring the music and baroque treasures of J.S. Bach at Colburn School's Zipper Hall. This orchestra is dedicated to the historically informed performance of baroque and classical music on period instruments and...
Polish-born Grammy-nominated operatic lyric tenor sensation Piotr Beczala took a quick break from his appearance of a revival of La Boheme at The Met in New York to treat his adoring fans to a recital, for the third time, at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica. It was a part of The Celebrity Opera Series. Conducting the orchestra was the very capable and ultra-passionate Maestro Marco Boemi. Beczala is one of the most sought after lyric tenors of our time and has appeared on the world's leading oper...
There is one hot ticket on Halloween night that you don't want to miss. No, it's not the annual Halloween parade in West Hollywood. Even better, Boz Scaggs is making an appearance on his 2016 concert tour at The Rose in Pasadena. Scaggs will be singing songs from his new "A Fool to Care" album, and treating fans to all of his hit singles which includes "Lowdown" and "Lido Shuffle," both songs from the critically acclaimed "Silk Degrees (1976)" album. This album peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200 and both songs reached the Top 10 list in the...
By Observer Staff Reporter John Kay and Steppenwolf, one of the architects of the hard-rock sound from the 1970's, make a rare appearance at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on September 10. In the late 1960's, Steppenwolf embodied that era's social, political and philosophical restlessness, building an impressive body of edgy rock 'n' roll that retains its emotional resonance more than four decades after the band's formation. Their big hits "Born to Be Wild," "Magic Carpet Ride," "Rock Me," a...
Kentwood Players will hold open auditions for the musical “YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN” with book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, music and lyrics by Mel Brooks, on Saturday, September 10 from 11 am to 2 pm and Sunday, September 11 from 6 pm to 9 pm. Callbacks by invitation only will be held on Monday, September 12 at 7pm. This is a non-equity, non-paid production led by Director/Choreographer Alison Mattiza and Musical Director Catherine Rahm, produced by Lori A. Marple-Pereslete by special arrangement with Musical Theatre International. Per...
Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Festival Summer breezes. . . an intimate courtyard. . . free parking. . . and great music 6 free concerts July 7—August 11 Summer breezes… an intimate courtyard… free parking… and great music. Escape to Culver City for the 2016 Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Festival. Boulevard Music presents 6 free concerts on Thursday evenings at 7 pm from July 7 through August 11 in the palm-lined courtyard of Culver City City Hall. Curated by producer Gary Mandell of Culver City’s Boulevard Music, Culver City’s...
The Moody Blues frontman Justin Hayward, out on his latest U.S. solo tour, will be making a stop at two concert venues in Los Angeles -- The Rose in Pasadena on June 11th, and The Canyon Club on June 12th. The 69-year-old singer/guitarist/composers' excursion has been dubbed the Stage Door tour, which is named after a tune from his 1975 debut solo effort, Songwriter. The Stage Door tour title reflects his journey from young boy hanging out by the stage door without a ticket to the artist going...
There was song and dance as The Verdi Chorus took the stage for their spring performances this past weekend at the acoustically-sound First United Methodist Church in Santa Monica. This is the chorus' 33rd year of showcasing glorious operatic repertoire and continues to be one of the jewels of the Los Angeles opera scene. The Chorus showed the audience why as they presented two flawless performances that were themed "Italian Passions." Before the show began, chorus president Frank Strauss spoke...
The Verdi Chorus, a jewel of the opera scene in Los Angeles, will take the stage with their spring concerts entitled Italian Passions on May 21 and 22. Italian Passions is an appropriate title for their program because they'll be performing chorale masterpieces from three titans of Italian Opera, Italian composers: Verdi, Donizetti and Puccini. And three gifted internationally-known soloists will be appearing: tenor Todd Wilander, baritone Babatunde Akinboboye (a former Verdi Chorus member),...
The Culver City Chamber Orchestra will be presenting a “Family Concert” on April 10 at 4 p.m. at Culver Palms United Methodist Church, 4464 Sepulveda Blvd.featuring Usha Kapoor 18 (Colburn Conservatory) and Vera Kim 12, violinists. Also included will be The West Coast Premiere of Ms. Deon Price’s (Culver City longtime resident) Triple Flute Concerto with flutists Johana Borenstein, Victoria Batt and Rachel Mellis. Admission is $20 adults, Seniors and Students with ID. $15. Children $10. Children under seven free. Culver City Chamber Orche...
Three hundred people were lucky to attend Saturday night's concert by the Culver City Symphony Orchestra. It was a lovely night: great music, not expensive, and intriguing programming mixing famous composers with ones you may not know. The concert was about to start when a tuxedo'd gentleman started stood up on the stage. Matthew Hetz, the orchestra's President and Executive Director, gently explained a few concert basics to the audience. "Please don't text during the concert," he asked (sign...
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Music Director Jeffrey Kahane served as musical “tour guide” and conductor for LACO’s annual “Discover” program, which this season featured a special one-night-only exploration of Bach’s incomparable Cantata BWV 140 “Sleepers Awake” on Saturday at the historic Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, the “Carnegie Hall of the West.” Bach composed this cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on November 25, 1731. It was composed to com...
The Culver City Symphony Orchestra continues its 2015-16 Season with A Winter's Concert Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 8 pm at Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 4117 Overland Ave. and Culver Blvd., Culver City. Free parking, entrances from Culver Blvd. The warm sounds of strings of the orchestra. Guest Artis-Oboist Claire Brazeau from Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Parness Competition Special Award-Violinist Usha Kapoor. Winter's Music. Hear it and Enjoy. This concert is under the direction Conductor...
In three special performances, the Culver City High School AVPA Music program will present Jazz Cabaret: Two Acts, Two Spaces, One Jazzy Night, Jan. 22-24. The first half of the program will take place in the Robert Frost Auditorium. There, featured vo-calists will perform big band hits like Moondance, The Lady is a Tramp, and Come Fly with Me with the full Jazz Ensemble. The event will then move to the more intimate space of the Sony Pictures Theatre, where vocalists will be backed by the Jazz...
