[photo credit: The Tuesday Musicale of Pasadena]
Music Director and Conductor Arman Keyvanian will lead the orchestra through a program featuring baroque and classical masterworks. The concert includes Henry Purcell’s “Abdelazer Suite,” Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor,” and Franz Schubert’s “Symphony No. 2 in D Major.”
The Purcell work, composed in 1695 as incidental music for a revenge tragedy by dramatist Aphra Behn, remains one of the composer’s most enduring creations despite the original play no longer being performed. Bach’s Double Violin Concerto, composed around 1730, ranks among the composer’s best-known works, particularly praised for its soulful middle movement. Schubert composed his Second Symphony in 1815, just months after his eighteenth birthday.
Founded in 2002 by Roberta Wilcox in partnership with the Pasadena Senior Center, Crown City Symphony gave its first performance in 2003. The nonprofit organization provides free, family-friendly classical music concerts in Pasadena and in Altadena. Free parking is available in the church lot.
Crown City Symphony Concert will run on Sunday, Nov. 16, at 2 p.m. First Church of Christ, Scientist, 80 S. Oakland Ave., Pasadena. For more information, call (626) 797-1994 or visit https://tuesdaymusicaleca.org/public-events/. Admission is free.
