Artistic director/conductor Matt Catingub will be joined by spectacular performers to conclude the Glendale Pops’ first season. Jazz great Dave Koz and vocalist Monica Mancini will join Matt Catingub and the Glendale Pops Orchestra for the final show of the GPO’s first season in “A Night At The Movies.” The performance takes place at Glendale’s […]
By Charly SHELTON Nicholas Sparks writes the stories every girl dreams of – lovey-dovey romance stories with the perfect man and the ordinary yet amazing girl that anyone can relate to falling in love and out of love and ultimately wind up living happily ever after. As a long time boyfriend, I have sat through […]
Season Finale at Dilijan: Somber Reflection of Armenian Genocide, Friends Lost By Ted AYALA Bittersweet was the mood at Zipper Hall on April 15 as the Dilijan Chamber Music Series closed out its concert season. This season finale was, as has been a tradition for Dilijan since its inception, a commemoration of the atrocities suffered […]
Last year we saw the reboot of every single DC comic title, starting at issue one, for the first time since the 1930s. The reboot followed Flashpoint, a short series from spring to summer that showed us an alternate reality centered on The Flash. And that’s not even counting Marvel’s comic arc of Spider Island, […]
By Ted AYALA It was a slimmed down Pasadena Symphony that met the audience at the Ambassador Auditorium on Saturday night, March 31. Nicholas McGegan, respected conductor of Baroque music, turned his period performance touch onto the music of Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Though the Pasadena Symphony’s smooth strings was lost by its reduction down […]
Over 100 million people tuned in to see the “America’s Got Talent” TV show in 2009 when The Texas Tenors became the highest-ranking vocal group in the history of the show. For one special night on Friday, April 20 at 8 p.m. The Texas Tenors will visit La Cañada to perform a special benefit concert […]
By Ted AYALA The accolades received at the premiere of Philip Glass’ “Symphony No. 9” on Thursday, April 5 at Disney Hall, its enigmatic close with cellos and basses plummeting the depths after an eerily oscillating figure for strings and celesta, had a whiff of a storybook ending to it. Not that Glass’ career is […]