By Ted AYALA Amid the carnival atmosphere of E3 2011, which was held June 7 through June 9 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, an undercurrent of concern was palpable – especially on the part of Japanese developers. Coming hard on the heels of news announcing the weakest video games sales in five years, the […]
By Ted AYALA Residents of the city of Glendale may have to allow themselves extra time for their commutes through Glendale along Verdugo Road beginning this summer. At Tuesday’s Glendale City Council meeting, a project was approved to refurbish Verdugo Road from Colorado Boulevard to Glendale Avenue. The project, which will cost the city over […]
By Ted AYALA Georges Bizet’s jewel-like Jeux des enfants (Children’s Games) made up the major work on the first half of Calico Winds’ concert on Saturday night, June 4 at Boston Court in Pasadena. Calico Winds – comprising of flautist Eileen Hold Helwig, clarinetist Kathryn Nevin, oboist David Kossoff, bassoonist Therese Treuenfels, and French hornist […]
By Ted AYALA A source of contention between local residents and a private school was finally resolved last Tuesday night by the Glendale City Council. The issue that divided the community was a proposal by the Chamlian Armenian School at 4444 Lowell Ave. in La Crescenta to build a gymnasium on its property. Residents neighboring […]
By Ted Ayala In 1945, the great American composer Bernard Herrmann–whose compositions graced the films of Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Brian de Palma, and Martin Scorsese, among others–wrote an impassioned defense of film music’s stature as an art form in the New York Times in response to a scathing critique by conductor Erich Leinsdorf published […]
By Ted AYALA Amid the din of the ecstatically raucous coda of Revueltas’ La Noche de los Mayas (The Night of the Mayas) – reverberating thunderously through Occidental College’s Thorne Hall after the last blazing chord cut forth – and with the audience at the Santa Cecilia Orchestra’s (SCO) end of season concert erupting into […]
By Ted AYALA At Tuesday’s council meeting Glendale Water & Power proposed an initiative to conduct a pilot scale study to surmise the possibility of removing nitrates from the water well in the Rockhaven property purchased by the city in 2008 under the aegis of former councilmember John Drayman. Peter Kavounas, assistant general manager of […]
Photo by Ted AYALA By Ted AYALA When thinking about attending a performance of youth orchestras, one can’t help but groan inwardly. How to put up with it? Yes, you want to mean well and you understand that kids are kids, not fully professional musicians. But unless you’re the parent or family member of one […]
By Ted AYALA A veritable cornucopia of musical delights – spanning everything from classical and jazz to rock and bossa-nova – were served to the hungry audience attending the Glendale Pops Orchestra’s (GPO) “The Premiere” concert last Friday night, May 13. Matt Catingub, the GPO’s new artistic director, emceed the concert with a sly charm […]
By Ted AYALA The Santa Cecilia Orchestra (SCO), which finds its home in Occidental College’s Thorne Hall, closes out its 2010-2011 in a spectacular fashion on Sunday, May 22 at Occidental College’s Thorne Hall at 4 p.m. with a concert honoring two of Mexico’s – and the American continent’s – very greatest composers: Silvestre Revueltas […]