Balancing efforts to create a strong orchestra and improve the working conditions of its musicians, the Pasadena Symphony Association and the American Federation of Musicians Local 47 announced a new five-year labor contract agreement Friday. The musicians’ ra... More »
The Caltech Glee Club and the Caltech Symphony present their spring concert at Caltech on Friday, May 12 and Saturday, May 13 at 8:00 pm in Ramo Auditorium. Featured music will include “Redes” or “Nets”, a score written to an important Mexican film of that nam... More »
Make Music Pasadena, one of the West Coast’s largest free family music festivals which packed the streets of Old Pasadena with tens of thousands of fans for the past nine years, won’t be staged this year and, its organizers said, may never return. In a stateme... More »
A multi-purpose room filled with young students at Monrovia’s Wild Rose Elementary School became part of a school-wide orchestra Tuesday thanks to the Pasadena Showcase House Music Mobile Program that supplied a variety of brass, stringed, woodwind and percuss... More »
Thousands of Pasadenans jammed dozens of shuttle buses throughout Pasadena Friday evening for the city’s Art Night. From lit vines in a garden to walking “live floats” to poetry in a parking garage, there was art and culture across the city, from Orange Grove ... More »
The Armenian Pops Orchestra, conducted by Greg Hosharian, will present “Sounds of the Diaspora” on Sunday, March 26 at The Ambassador Auditorium, 131 S St John Avenue in Pasadena, in a concert for the benefit of the Edward Hosharian Scholarship Fund. “Sounds o... More »
Alongside the happy and cheerful sound of all of the students in the choral, band and orchestras in the two-day music festival Pasadena Unified School District is staging starting tonight there are even happier notes being played by administrators who say the ... More »
Accomplished violinist and Pasadena resident Lisa Sutton will lead Grammy-winning musicians out from the depths of the dark orchestra pits and onto center stage at local venues in a season of chamber concerts that will give audiences an intimate world class mu... More »
U2 has added another date for its The Joshua Tree Tour concert at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena as tickets quickly sold out for the May 20 performance. They will be performing the next day as well, May 21, starting at 6:30 p.m. Pre-sale tickets for the second and ... More »
Punk rock band Green Day has decided to expand their Revolution Radio tour and added 24 summer dates – including their first-ever appearance at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena – in support of their latest album. The exact dates of their Pasadena performances have no... More »
“It’s rare that something so loud comes to life in someplace so quiet, but that’s exactly how it happened with America’s greatest rock band. In the 1970s, Van Halen evolved into a musical force in Pasadena, a Los Angeles suburb of white picket fences, tree-lin... More »
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena has sided with British pop singer Jessie J by rejecting a California songwriter’s claim that she stole the melody from one of his songs for the 2011 hit “Domino.” In its decision, the court said Will Loomis did... More »
