The following is a submission from the Westside Chamber Orchestra
In spite of it all, culture persists…
Join The Westside Chamber Orchestra this summer at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Santa Monica for these terrific free programs. Our final concert last summer was played to an overflow house, so get your tickets early through the Eventbrite links below!
Saturday, June 28, 7pm
Other People’s Music
Charles Ives Washington’s Birthday
Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Luciano Berio Beatles Songs: Tiffany Ho, soprano
Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite
The oldest kind of music-making: borrowing. Charles Ives’ crazy quilt of Other People’s Music features familiar folktunes in his evocation of a winter holiday through flawed and fading memories. Soprano Tiffany Ho joins us for 1960’s Avant-Gardist Luciano Berio’s exquisite classical versions of Beatles songs, Yesterday, Ticket to Ride, and Michelle. Brahms’ famous set of Variations on a Theme that he thought was by Haydn is juxtaposed with the lively fun of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella which he thought was based on music by Pergolesi.
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Saturday July 26, 7pm
Classical Saxophone
Rossini Il Signor Bruschino Overture
Jacques Ibert Concertino da Camera: Harvey Pittel, saxophone
Schubert Symphony #2
Celebrated saxophone soloist Harvey Pittel (Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic) will join us to play Jacques Ibert’s sparkling and virtuosic Concertino da Camera, one of the best pieces ever written for the instrument. He will follow this with a selection from his forthcoming recording “The Baroque Saxophone”. A humorous classic overture by Rossini and a stylish classic symphony by Schubert will frame this presentation of Le Saxo Classique.
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Saturday, August 23, 7pm
Goin’ to Town
William Walton Portsmouth Point Overture
Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915 Rachel Mellman, soprano
Mozart Symphony #36 “Linz”
Boisterous and bawdy, Sir William Walton’s imagination of Portsmouth in 1800 was a rowdy sailor’s town crowded with eye patches, rotten teeth, peglegs, and parrots on the shoulder. Samuel Barber’s setting of the prologue to James Agee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “A Death in the Family” is one of the real gems of nostalgic Americana. Soprano Rachel Mellman will sing its memorable text. The Symphony #36 by Mozart is not about a city, but for a city: Linz, Austria. Cities in imagination, in memory, and in dedication. All in music.
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