By Robert D. Thomas
Music Critic
Pasadena Star-News/San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Whittier Daily
News
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Each Thursday morning, I list five events that peak my
interest. Here’s today’s grouping (no free concert this week — sorry):
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Today and Saturday
at 8 p.m. Tomorrow at 11 a.m. Sunday at 2 p.m. at Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles
Philharmonic: Dudamel concludes “Brahms Unbound”
For the past month, Music Director and the Los Angeles
Philharmonic have worked their way through most of Brahms’ major orchestra
music, plus a healthy slice of contemporary pieces. The final concert in the
survey pairs Brahms’ Double Concerto with his Symphony No. 4. Soloists in the
concerto are violinist Renaud
Capuon and his brother, Gautier, on cello. INFO: www.laphil.com
Sunday at 2 p.m.
Various movie theaters
Los Angeles
Philharmonic on the big screen
Sunday is the last of three concerts in this season’s “LA
Phil LIVE” series, in which a concert is telecast live to more than 400 movie
screens around the United States and Canada. The program is what’s listed
above; the telecast includes rehearsal footage and interviews by John Lithgow.
INFO: www.laphil.com
BTW: If you haven’t tired of reading about Gustavo, Tim Page
— who won a Pulitzer Prize for his work as music critic of the Washington Post and now a professor of
journalism and music — has an article on Dudamel beginning on page 94 in this
month’s Los Angeles Magazine. A link
to the magazine’s preview digital edition is HERE. It’s hard to read in this
format; LAM obviously hopes you’ll
buy a magazine instead.
Saturday at 7:30
p.m. at La Crescenta Presbyterian Church. Sunday at 4 p.m. at Altadena
Community Church
Pasadena Master
Chorale; Jeffrey Bernstein, conductor
The PMC concludes its third season with a “Green Concert”
that features music about nature and the earth that includes two pieces by the
conductor/composer, along with music by Randall Thompson and Aaron Copland. Mezzo-soprano
Suzanna Guzmn will be the soloist in Copland’s In the Beginning. The performance of Thompson’s Ye Shall Have a Song (a selection from
his cantata The Peaceable Kingdom) will
have 30 singers from the Pasadena Unified School District joining with the
Chorale: INFO: www.pasadenamasterchorale.org
Saturday at 8 p.m.
at Terrace Theatre, Long Beach
Long Beach Symphony;
Enrique Arturo Diemecke, conductor
All season the LBSO has been featuring Russian music on its
programs and the concluding concert is more of the same: Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade and Prokofiev’s Piano
Concerto No. 2 with 2009 Van Cliburn gold medal winner Haochen Zhang as
soloist. The evening opens with Menuet
Anteque by Ravel — ask not why. INFO:
www.lbso.org
Sunday at 4 p.m. at
The Neighborhood Church, Pasadena
Pacific Serenades
Concluding its 25th season, Pacific Serenades
presents the world premiere of Rapsodia
Andina (Andean Rhapsody) by Berkeley native Gabriela Lena Frank. Usually
Pacific Serenades does its own commissioning but for this piece was joined by
six other groups. The program also includes Pacific
Serenade by Miguel del Aguilla, which the group premiered in 1998. This
program also plays Saturday in a private home and Tuesday at the UCLA Faculty
Center. INFO: www.pacser.org
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(c) Copyright 2011, Robert D. Thomas. All rights reserved.
Portions may be quoted with attribution.
