Pasadena’s most sought-after holiday concert, sells out quickly. Top off your holiday season and enjoy fully reserved seating arrangements in the architecturally exquisite and acoustically sonorous All Saints Church, Pasadena’s equivalent of a classic European cathedral.

Acclaimed singer Allie Feder (Pitch Perfect 2) joins an array of choruses and handbells in this festive concert featuring your favorite holiday songs with Silent Night, Let it Snow, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Hallelujah! and more, all performed by candlelight – an aural respite that is sure to summon the spirit of the season.

Artists:
Pasadena Symphony
Jenny Wong, conductor
Allie Feder, soloist
L.A. Bronze Handbell Ensemble
Los Angeles Children's Chorus
Donald Brinegar Singers & JPL Chorus

Pasadena’s most sought-after holiday concert, sells out quickly. Top off your holiday season and enjoy fully reserved seating arrangements in the architecturally exquisite and acoustically sonorous All Saints Church, Pasadena’s equivalent of a classic European cathedral.

Acclaimed singer Allie Feder (Pitch Perfect 2) joins an array of choruses and handbells in this festive concert featuring your favorite holiday songs with Silent Night, Let it Snow, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Hallelujah! and more, all performed by candlelight – an aural respite that is sure to summon the spirit of the season.

Artists:
Pasadena Symphony
Jenny Wong, conductor
Allie Feder, soloist
Los Angeles Children's Chorus
Donald Brinegar & JPL Chorus
L.A. Bronze Handbell Ensemble

Purchase tickets & more information: https://pasadenasymphony-pops.org/concert/holiday-candlelight/

Synchromy presents two evenings of new music, shadow puppetry, and interstellar space. Built around Stockhausen’s Tierkreis, Synchromy has commissioned twelve composers to musically re-imagine the twelve signs of the Zodiac with a modern context. These will be accompanied by dazzling projections by artist Erik Ruin and a musical preamble by satirical musical group Spacepants. Join us for a meditative journey through sonority, performed by the Brightwork Ensemble.
This performance is made possible in part by the City of Culver City and its Cultural Affairs Commission, with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment and the Culver City Arts Foundation.

While COVID has taught us many things, one lesson that learned is that you can’t predict the future. Or can you? For centuries, humanity has looked to the stars in an attempt to do just that. The Zodiac has inspired humanity to take precautions, look for signs, and create art. In the early 1970s, German composer Stockhausen created tunes for twelve music boxes, each representing a sign of the Zodiac (or Tierkreis in his native tongue). These became so popular that, even now, each day at noon the current sign’s melody is performed on the carillon of Cologne’s Town Hall tower. Tierkreis LA is Synchromy’s re-imagining of Stockhausen’s Zodiac compositions for The Brightwork Ensemble. This performance also features twelve new Zodiac-inspired works by local composers. These composers include: Jason Barabba, Adam Borecki, Ethan Braun, Carolyn Chen, Dante De Silva, Sean Heim, Vera Ivanova, Molly Pease, Vicki Ray, Gabrielle Rosse, David Garcia Saldana, and Derek Tywoniuk.

This tapestry of musical invention will be accompanied by artist Erik Ruin’s cut paper projections. His work oscillates between apocalyptic anxieties and utopian yearnings. Erik’s visions will meld with the music, creating a live performance embracing the mortal and ethereal.

From Erik Ruin: “The challenge I’ve set for myself in creating this project is to craft ambitious projections that are complex, challenging and

Synchromy presents two evenings of new music, shadow puppetry, and interstellar space. Built around Stockhausen’s Tierkreis, Synchromy has commissioned twelve composers to musically re-imagine the twelve signs of the Zodiac with a modern context. These will be accompanied by dazzling projections by artist Erik Ruin and a musical preamble by satirical musical group Spacepants. Join us for a meditative journey through sonority, performed by the Brightwork Ensemble.
This performance is made possible in part by the City of Culver City and its Cultural Affairs Commission, with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment and the Culver City Arts Foundation.

Artists:

Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Aubree Oliverson, violin
Martha Chan, flute
Bogang Hwang, harpsichord

Program:

Gabriella Smith Brandenburg-Interstices
Boccherini Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5

Gabriella Smith’s music is “high-voltage and wildly imaginative” (Philadelphia Inquirer), and “ the coolest, most exciting, most inventive new voice I’ve heard in ages” (Musical America). She wrote Brandenburg Interstices as a companion piece for Bach’s 5th Brandenburg Concerto, honoring the Baroque style while interweaving modern minimalism, blues and American folk music.

Additional times: 8:00pm-10:30pm

More information/Tickets: https://pasadenasymphony-pops.org/concert/brandenburg-5/

The most famous love letters ever penned to music– Tchaikovsky’s Masterpieces arrive just in time for Valentine’s Day!

The Washington Post listed Gabriela Frank as one of the 35 most significant women composers in history (August, 2017). Exotic Peruvian rhythms flourish with passion in her “Elegía Andina,” which explores what it means to be of several ethnic persuasions and of several minds.

Program:
Gabriela Frank Elegia Andina
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Rimsky Korsakov Capriccio espagnol

Lidiya Yankovskaya, conductor
Chee-Yun, violin

Additional times: 8:00pm-10:30pm, venue opens 1 hour prior to performances for pre-concert lecture

More information/purchase tickets: https://pasadenasymphony-pops.org/concert/tchaikovsky-violin-concerto-2/