Share: Jacob Ahumada is a music major who enjoys reading Haruki Murakami, Aldous Huxley, and is studying German to read Nietzsche in its original form. He loves playing Bach and was reading The Brothers Karamazov under a tree when I caught up with him and asked if he plans to make music his career. Follow:
Two new piano soloists rise from concert hall
Share: Last Saturday, two PCC students walked into a concert hall full of people and sat down in front of a nine-foot-long piano to perform their first solo piano concerts. Follow:
Sofar Sounds pop-up concerts wrap with Brazilian soul
Share: A soulful voice fills the air as Brazilian singer, Caro Pierotto and her band perform on stage, her words are organic and the sounds, soothing… therapeutic. The scene is serene, as an intimate crowd surrounds a dimly lit stage under the warm night sky in Old Town Pasadena last Thursday. Follow:
Worby and MUSE/IQUE close Summer of Sound
Share: Artistic Director Rachael Worby led the MUSE/IQUE orchestra on Saturday night to perform the final instalment of the Summer of Sound Series at California Institute of Technology. Follow:
Eight years strong, Record Store Day sees another day of success
Share: 26-year-old Chad Thompson waited patiently in line at Pasadena’s own Canterbury Records, hopeful in grabbing one of the only 15,000 copies in the world of Star Wars: The Force Awakens soundtrack. This special edition vinyl is imprinted with the iconic image of the Millennium Falcon being chased by two Imperial fighters. Follow:
Piano students culminate the semester with sold out concert
Share: PCC’s present generation of pianists saw their hard work pay off during the sold out “Sun and Shadows: Music of Lightness and Darkness” concert this past Saturday evening in the Westerbeck Recital Hall. Follow:
Cydney Ee: Living the pop star dream
Share: This past summer has been a fruitful one for 21-year-old Cydney Ee, who beat out fellow pop star hopefuls from Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco to emerge as the champion in the Chinese-American talent competition ETTV Top Idol. Follow:
Quetzal: More than 20 years of music, rhythm and artivism
Share: This past Saturday, the community of Pasadena gathered at the Levitt Pavilion Festival to enjoy a warm summer evening dancing to the rhythms of Grammy Award winning East LA Chicano rock band Quetzal. Follow:
A not-so-spooky Halloween
Share: On Halloween this year, while some people were off listening to some hard hitting EDM at Escape All Hallows’ Eve, a small audience made their way to the Westerbeck Recital Hall to get a taste of a very different kind of music. Piano, oboe, and the melody of dozens of voices created an incredible sound when the Pasadena City College choir groups performed their Fall Choral Recital. Follow:
Musicians conclude part two of Beethoven’s sonatas
Thunderous clapping filled the auditorium as Roger Lebow and Philip Young finished the second half of Beethoven’s sonatas on Sunday, Nov. 2 at the Westerbeck Recital Hall.