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Family-operated Pedrini Music can find you anything
“Your neighborhood music boutique since 1946,” reads the business card for Pedrini Music, which moved to its present location on Foothill Boulevard in La Crescenta in 1997. Founded by Bruno Pedrini in Glendale in 1946, the original store was...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Music, Facebook, Education, Arts and Culture
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A high school jazz program that shines
The recent decision to expunge jazz from Doug McIntyre's morning show on KABC radio — in a purported move to enlarge the show's audience — has stirred passions around the Southland. Playboy Jazz Festival publicist Nina Gordon is surprised by...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Music, Gary Foster, Education, Arts and Culture
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A family trait of making music
If conductor Jeffrey Kahane led the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra with even more vim and vigor than usual during last weekend's concert at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, he had good reason. The program of new and familiar music on Saturday, April 21...
Tags: Joni Mitchell, Culture, Carnegie Hall, Arts and Culture, Summerfest
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DVD review: Escape to 'Stony Island'
Back in 1978, right before rap started to take over the world, an aspiring filmmaker named Andrew Davis — who would later go on to direct “Under Siege” and “The Fugitive” — managed to scrape together the money for...
Tags: Cloris Leachman, Music, DVDs, Dennis Franz, Brian de Palma
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Crescenta Valley High School student Sarah Worden performs with Glendale Youth Orchestra
The Glendale Youth Orchestra, under the baton of conductor Brad Keimach, will perform at 7 p.m. on March 11 at the Alex Theatre. Fifteen-year-old Crescenta Valley High School student Sarah Worden performs a violin solo. The program includes Beethoven:...Tags: High School Sports, Teaching and Learning, Music, Lobbying, Sports
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Bandleader Mark Tortorici, a self-described 'live-music junkie,' keeps local Burbank hot spot jumpin'
Bandleader-promoter Mark Tortorici is an old-school showman. For the past seven years, the sharp-dressed, sweet-talking swinger has been presenting a wild variety of live music acts at Burbank nightclub Joe's Great American Bar and Grill and packing the...Tags: Dance, Music, Entertainment Events, Disc Jockeys, Johnnie Ray
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Jazz night at well-stocked bar is shaping up neatly
On a recent Glendale night, the customary cold stillness of the 1100 block North Pacific Avenue in Glendale was agreeably jostled. At about 9, the warm sounds emerging from the Neat Bar doorway added welcome vitality to the commercial street that...
Tags: Frank Foster, Music, Entertainment, Chet Baker, Miles Davis
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Hitting a high note: Donation brings new instruments
A new instrument, in and of itself, does not make a successful musician, but it can inspire some extra practicing and inject pride into a performance. So it is at the Glendale High School music department, which received about $20,000 in new...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Music, American Civil Liberties Union, Education, Arts and Culture
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PROJECT Trio weaves rock, hip-hop into classical compositions
Who says classical music has to be a formal affair? Not PROJECT Trio, a classical chamber ensemble fueled by the sounds of rock 'n' roll, hip-hop and jazz, from Guns ‘N Roses to Duke Ellington.
With some 66 million hits on YouTube, appearances on...Tags: Music, Elementary Schools, MTV (tv network), Aaron Copland, Nickelodeon (tv network)
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Celebrate Dance blends local troupes on one stage
It is pitch black. Slowly a dark reddish glow lights the stage. A slim woman dressed in tight black shorts and a loose tank top walks out and, chest forward, dives to the floor, landing on her hands. She lies on her side, knees bent, and slowly rolls onto...Tags: Dance, Music, Entertainment Events, Human Interest, Arts and Culture
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Marine Band prepares for a lively Colorado Boulevard show
There are probably few, if any, people who come into this world with a congenital love of marches. Blaring brass, blasting tubas and unison staccato drums — all playing at a fortissimo dynamic — is definitely an acquired taste. Yet there are...Tags: Ginger Rogers, U.S. Marine Corps, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Circuses
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Keeping things quiet
On paper, singer-songwriter Lisa Finnie seems like one more soft-strumming aspirant in that voluminous coven of often less-than-engaging soul-bearing sisters, but in performance, the Pasadena native gently conjures a mixture of lush atmospherics and...Tags: Music, Bars and Clubs, Wines, Arts and Culture, Entertainment
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