By Brandon HENSLEY Come for the T-shirt launchers and flying toilet paper, stay for the rock show. That might be a worthy tag line for the ongoing North American tour headlined by arguably the biggest band in pop-punk history. Blink-182 will wind down its tour with A Day to Remember in Southern California in late […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Come Saturday morning, the CV High School quad will be full of music, raffles, and most of all, plenty of Korean barbecue. It’s all part of the second annual Outdoor Family Korean Barbecue luncheon from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m., held at CV High to support the CV Instrumental Music Foundation. “It’s […]
By Ted AYALA If last year was a turbulent year for the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra (PSO) you would never have guessed it when listening to their performance on Saturday, Feb. 19 at Pasadena’s Ambassador Auditorium. Indeed, there was something almost defiant about the orchestra, under guest conductor Matthias Bamert, filling the despite a powerful rain […]
By Ted AYALA Synchromy – a collective of Los Angeles area composers – presented their second concert of the season at Occidental College’s Bird Studio on Saturday night, Feb. 12. Joining Synchromy composers Daniel Gall and Jenni Brandon were the works of their fellow Synchromy members Eric Guinivan, Jason Barabba, Vera Ivanova and Yalil Guerra. […]
By Ted AYALA An expert in such arcane mathematical fields as stochastic processes, statistical mechanics, and game theory and a notable figure in 20th century architecture: this doesn’t sound like a very likely pedigree for a composer. That this particular composer was able to marry all these and other diverse elements into a challenging, but […]
By Ted AYALA Looking back over the past year, I’m amazed at the unforgettable musical experiences I’ve been able to enjoy in the area. Great music making doesn’t only exist on recordings or in far-off places. The last year has proven that world-class music-making exist right here in our area – practically in our neighborhood. […]