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  • Director of Chamber Music, Margaret Batjer Leads

    Steven Lieberman, Observer Reporter|Feb 22, 2024

    On Saturday, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) presented a concert as part of their special Baroque series at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Veteran LACO violinist, concertmaster and Director of Chamber Music, Margaret Batjer, led the charge as they presented an all-Bach program. LACO's Baroque series features smaller groups of the Orchestra's musicians and guest artists on chamber masterworks from the Baroque Era (1600 to 1750). And Bach, the architect of the...

  • SMC Emeritus Concert Band to Hold Free Concert Feb. 24

    Feb 15, 2024

    Santa Monica College's Emeritus Concert Band, under the baton of Yosuke Miyoshi, will present a free concert - "Liquid Grooves" - on Sunday, Mar. 3, at 3 p.m. The performance will be held in The Broad Stage at the SMC Performing Arts Center, located at 1310 11th Street (at Santa Monica Boulevard), Santa Monica. The almost-spring concert will feature a program based on the ocean and sea. The Emeritus Concert Band will be performing "Pacific Grooves" by Tyler S. Grant, "Water Reflections" by...

  • Culver City Allocates Funds to Support Thirty Arts Organizations

    Feb 1, 2024

    Culver City has announced the recipients of the 2024 Performing Arts Grants, totaling $244,960, during its meeting on December 11th. The grants aim to support thirty non-profit arts organizations in presenting a diverse array of music, dance, and theatre performances throughout the year. The Performing Arts Grant Program, part of the City's Art in Public Places initiative, bases its awards on independent evaluations by arts experts and recommendations from the Cultural Affairs Commission. These...

  • Open Auditions for Little Ti Moune In Once on this Island

    Jan 25, 2024

    Kentwood Players will hold open auditions for the childhood role of Little Ti Moune in ONCE ON THIS ISLAND with Book and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, Music by Stephen Flaherty on Saturday, January 27 from 10:00am to 12:00pm, and Sunday, January 28 from 10:00am to 12:00pm at the Westchester Playhouse, 8301 Hindry Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90045. Auditions for adult roles will take place in March. This is Open Auditions for Little Ti Moune In Once on this Island a non-equity, all-volunteer production...

  • Kentwood Players Presents Private Lives

    Jan 25, 2024

    In the lead-up to Noël Coward's worldwide 125th birthday celebration in December 2024, Kentwood Players is proud to present Private Lives, the English playwright's uniquely humorous comedy of manners from Friday, January 19 through Saturday, February 10, 2024 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm, and Sundays at 2:00pm. Saturday matinees at 2:00pm will be added on January 27 and continue through the rest of the run at the Westchester Playhouse, located at 8301 Hindry Avenue, Los Angeles, CA...

  • Dance, Music, and Theatre Events Receive Grants

    Jan 18, 2024

    The City Council of the City of Culver City awarded a total of $244,960 in 2024 Performing Arts Grants at its December 11th meeting. Thirty non-profit arts organizations will receive grants to present music, dance, and theatre performances from January to December 2024. The Performing Arts Grant Program awards are based on independent scoring from arts experts and recommendations from the Cultural Affairs Commission. These performances, that provide arts-lovers and families with enriching and...

  • Culver City Symphony Orchestra Kicks Off 2023-24 Season

    Jan 18, 2024

    The concert will be held on Sunday January 21, at 7:00pm in the Robert Frost Auditorium located at Culver City High School. In 2022-23 the Orchestra presented its first full season for several years, with four outstanding concerts led by four guest conductors. Our 2023-24 season opened in November, as we introduced our new Music Director-Conductor, Clyde Mitchell, with a program that included a world premiere of Circle Overture by Craig Safan, and ended with a performance of the Symphony No. 1...

  • SMC Emeritus Art Gallery to Host Free Online Opening Reception for Anna Conley Art Exhibition Jan. 18

    Jan 18, 2024

    The Santa Monica College (SMC) Emeritus Art Gallery is pleased to present "The Invisible Man," a free exhibition celebrating new works by artist and Emeritus student Anna Conley. The exhibition opens simultaneously on Jan. 18 in the Emeritus Art Gallery at 1227 Second St., Santa Monica, and online at smc.edu/emeritusgallery. The solo exhibition of new painted works showcases the artist's rich and gestural painting approach, which creates powerfully expressive imagery and mysterious abstraction a...

  • The Soraya Turns It Out with Tiler Peck and Friend

    Steven Lieberman, Observer Reporter|Dec 7, 2023

    On Sunday at The Soraya, American international dancing sensation Tiler Peck performed her outstanding "Turn It Out with Tiler Peck and Friends" project to the thrill of all of her adoring fans. Hailing from Bakersfield, and now living in New York as a principal dancer with New York City Ballet (NYCB), Peck brought with her a highly accomplished cast of dancers and singers. She is filled with love and joy for her craft and that is evident on stage through her passionate body movements and...

  • SMC Jazz Vocal Ensemble Performs Evening Concert

    Nov 30, 2023

    The Santa Monica College Music Department is pleased to present an evening concert featuring the SMC Jazz Vocal Ensemble. "Jazz Crossover: Where Genres Converge" will be held Friday, December 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Hall at the SMC Performing Arts Center, 1310 11th Street (at Santa Monica Boulevard), Santa Monica. Under the direction of SMC music instructor Megan Gillespie, the ensemble's 41 talented vocalists will explore jazz merging with various genres, including pop, musical theater,...

  • Santa Monica College Jazz Ensemble Presents Live Concert Dec. 4

    Nov 30, 2023

    Santa Monica College presents the SMC Jazz Ensemble in a concert with the theme "Fusion Energy." The performance will be held on Monday, Dec. 4, at 7 p.m. in the Music Hall at the SMC Performing Arts Center, 1310 11th Street (at Santa Monica Boulevard), Santa Monica. Led by conductor Frederick Keith Fiddmont, the accomplished musical group will perform the music of Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Weather Report, Pat Metheny, and others who came into prominence during the jazz fusion era. Legendary...

  • From Bach to Bolivia

    Steven Lieberman, Observer Reporter|Nov 23, 2023

    By Last night at Zipper Hall, Camerata Pacifica debuted their new Baroque Series curated by 18th century master baroque flautist Emi Ferguson titled "From Bach to Bolivia." Joining her were highly accomplished musicians: Katie Hyun (violin), Coleman Itzkoff (cello), and Mikael Darmanie (harpsichord). The repertoire for the inaugural concert included five major Bach chamber works: Prelude and Fugue; Trio Sonata No. 5; Prelude; Trio Sonata No. 2; and Toccata and Fugue. They were set against six...

  • The Culver City Symphony Orchestra Launches New Season

    Nov 16, 2023

    The Culver City Symphony Orchestra The Culver City Symphony Orchestra presents the opening concert of the 2023/24 season, with our new Music Director-Conductor, Maestro Clyde Mitchell, as we celebrate the final day of the California Festival, a 2-week statewide music initiative showcasing the most compelling and forward-looking composers of works written in the past five years. The concert is free and no tickets are required will be held on Sunday, November 19 at 7:30pm at the The Robert Frost...

  • AVPA Presents The Laramie Project

    Nov 16, 2023

    Culver City High School's Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) Program will present The Laramie Project, in concert with Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre. The Laramie Project is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming. The murder was denounced as a hate crime and brought attention to the lack of hate crime laws in various states,...

  • Visions of Transcendence: Creating Space in East and West, which opens Saturday

    Nov 9, 2023

    While imprisoned in the Soviet Union from 1957 to 1964, sculptor Léonid Nedov clandestinely rendered scenes of prison life onto broken pieces of enamel dishware in haunting detail, until his release thanks to mediation by the dissident author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Nedov's powerful creative expression in the face of terror formed the inspiration for our new exhibition Visions of Transcendence: Creating Space in East and West, which opens this Saturday! Visions of Transcendence presents...

  • Turn It Out with Tiler Peck and Friends

    Steven Lieberman, Observer Reporter|Nov 2, 2023

    On Sunday at The Soraya, American international dancing sensation Tiler Peck performed her outstanding "Turn It Out with Tiler Peck and Friends" project to the thrill of all of her adoring fans. Hailing from Bakersfield, and now living in New York as a principal dancer with New York City Ballet (NYCB), Peck brought with her a highly accomplished cast of dancers and singers. She is filled with love and joy for her craft and that is evident on stage through her passionate body movements and...

  • Zombies Rock at Alex Theatre

    Steven Lieberman, Observer Reporter|Oct 19, 2023

    The Zombies tour landed in Glendale at the vintage Alex Theatre on Friday, much to the delight of the 1,400 admiring fans in attendance. The British rockers and Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famers have been at it since being formed by founding members Colin Blunstone (lead vocals) and Rod Argent (keys and vocals) in 1961. They are both still the foundation of the band, now joined by Tom Toomey (guitar), Soren Koch (bass), and Steve Rodford (drums), all very accomplished musicians. The band exhibited gr...

  • Tis the Season SMC Emeritus Concert Band to Hold Free Concert Oct. 22

    Oct 12, 2023

    Santa Monica College's Emeritus Concert Band, under the baton of Yosuke Miyoshi, will present a free concert - "Fright Night" - on Sunday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m. The performance will be held in The Broad Stage at the SMC Performing Arts Center, located at 1310 11th Street (at Santa Monica Boulevard), Santa Monica. The spooky fall concert with a Halloween theme will feature a selection of spine-chilling music ranging from band classics to contemporary compositions. "This concert will be a thrilling e...

  • SMC to Host Musician Stanley Clarke in Artist Talk on October 17

    Oct 12, 2023

    Santa Monica College (SMC) is pleased to host renowned jazz bassist Stanley Clarke in an artist's talk about his musical career. Clarke is partnering with BroadStage for performances, curation, and mentorship as Artist-in-Residence over the next three years. The presentation includes an audience Q&A. The presentation is free, and will be held at 11:15 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 17, in the Music Hall at the SMC Performing Arts Center, 1310 11th Street (at Santa Monica Boulevard), Santa Monica....

  • TITO'S FIESTA MEXICANA

    Sep 28, 2023

    TITO'S TACOS EVENT OCTOBER 4TH IN CULVER CITY...

  • Johnny Mathis Concert Leaves them Wanting More

    StevenLieberman, Observer Reporter|Sep 28, 2023

    Johnny Mathis, the Grammy Hall of Fame and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award legendary singer, made a stop on his Voice Of Romance tour at Cerritos Center For The Performing Arts on September 9th. The 87-year-old superstar still has maintained his remarkable, powerful tenor voice with the unmatched vibrato. Mathis, with a career spanning 67 years, brought all of his adoring fans back in time, while singing all of his greatest hits, and more. As usual, his charisma oozed into the audience. He...

  • Kentwood Players presents An Inspector Calls

    Sep 28, 2023

    Kentwood Players proudly presents J.B. Priestley's suspenseful drama An Inspector Calls directed by James Rice and produced by Lyndsay Palmer and Marty Feldman for Kentwood Players with rights secured from Dramatists Play Service. Performances take opened on Friday, September 15 and runs through Saturday, October 7 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, and Sundays at 2pm. Beginning September 23, Saturday matinees at 2pm will be added and continue through the rest of the run at the Westchester...

  • Fans Rock Out to songs from America

    Steven Lieberman, Observer Reporter|Sep 21, 2023

    By On Saturday at the YouTube Theater, America, founded by musicians Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley, treated their adoring fans to the hits they've been performing for 53 years, and 100 concerts consistently every year. Dan Peek, also a founding member who passed away in 2011, I know is smiling down from the heavens as Bunnell and Beckley carry the torch for him. The three were barely out of high school when they first made a splash in the British folk-rock scene as America. Not only did they...

  • Arabian Nights" Disney's Aladdin Musical

    Steven Lieberman, Observer Reporter|Sep 21, 2023

    There was non-stop laughter after the Genie, famously played by Marcus M. Martin, appeared on stage singing "Arabian Nights" (along with ensemble) to introduce Disney's Aladdin musical on opening night at the Pantages Theater on September 12. Using creative set and lighting design to generate an enchanting atmosphere, the audience is magically transported to Agrabah where the story unfolds featuring Aladdin, Jasmine, Genie, Sultan, Aladdin's new "street rat" friends Kassim, Babkak, and Omar,...

  • Aug 24, 2023

    The City of Culver City offers grants for dance, music and theatre performances. Under the purview of the Office of Economic and Cultural Development and the Cultural Affairs Commission, the Performing Arts Grant Program is designed to support local arts organizations and provide enriching and accessible cultural opportunities for the city's community, including residents, businesses, and visitors. Performing arts organizations of all sizes are encouraged to apply. To be eligible for...

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