Halloween is on Monday and fortunately there are plenty of people in the Crescenta Valley who gladly welcome the gaggle of witches, ghosts, vampires, and more who are about to descend on foothill neighborhoods. Even more fortunate is the host of places within our own valley that go the extra distance to entice trick-or-treaters to […]
By Ted AYALA The Pasadena Symphony Orchestra begins its 2011-12 season in splendid fashion this Saturday. Ending with Tchaikovsky’s ever popular Fifth Symphony, the program will begin with two musical works representing opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean: the Saibei Dance by Chinese-Canadian composer An-lun Huang, and the late Violin Concerto of Erich Wolfgang Korngold. […]
By Ted AYALA Opening a recital with Beethoven’s penultimate essay in piano sonata form – the 31st in A-flat – can either be a sign of brash, self confidence or very poor judgment. Beethoven’s late works, seemingly at a remove from earthly concerns and inhabiting a visionary, spectral world, demands not a mere virtuoso, but […]
ANGC now features unique hitch and dine. By Jackie HOUCHIN On Friday, the new community-built horse corral at the Angeles National Golf Club was officially opened in a ribbon-cutting ceremony that featured champagne for the human guests and apples and carrots for the 15 horses that attended. Certificates of Appreciation were awarded to the ANGC […]
By Ted AYALA Following a stunning season debut last month, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO), under the ever genial baton of its music director Jeffrey Kahane, returned to the Alex Theatre on Saturday for a program that sat side-by-side two sprawling explorative musical works: one a psychological journey, the other an exploration of the […]
By Ted AYALA One of Russia’s oldest and finest symphony orchestras in making a stop in Southern California on Tuesday. The Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the house band for the eponymous opera company in St. Petersburg, makes a one-night appearance in the Los Angeles area on Oct. 18. The program, which begins at 8 p.m., will […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Landscape painters have a chance this month to show off their talents as The Crescenta Valley Arts Council is in the midst of holding its second annual “Paint Out” event. Registration began on Friday and continues through Nov. 4 at White’s Fine Art at 2414 Honolulu Ave. Artists can register up to […]
By Ted AYALA Glendale’s resident pianophiles would do well to keep this Sunday evening open. Local pianist Harout Senekeremian will be performing an eclectic recital of music spanning the 19th Century to the present day. Beginning at 7:30 p.m. and concluding at 9:30 p.m., the concert will feature music by Beethoven, Arno Babadjanian, Nikolai Kapustin, […]
By Michael WORKMAN If there’s one thing that has been done to death in video games it’s having the undead itself as the main enemies. Zombies have been in the cross-hairs of countless games as far back as 1997 with the hit arcade shooter House of the Dead. Even though the whole zombie setting in […]
Presenting the best that Disneyland and Universal Studios offers for the scariest time of the year. By Charly SHELTON Who doesn’t like to get scared? Well, I’m sure that there are some out there who don’t care for the thrill that comes from a good fright, but for most of us a good-natured Halloween scare […]