Five-Spot: What caught my eye on July 21, 2011

By Robert D. Thomas
Music Critic
Pasadena Star-News/San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Whittier Daily News
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There are many significant classical music events happening this weekend throughout the Southland.
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• Tonight at 8 p.m. at Hollywood Bowl
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Dudamel concludes his two-week stint at the Bowl with an unusual program: music by Johann Strauss, Jr. bookending works by Enescu, Liszt and Bruch. Pinchas Zukerman is the soloist in Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1. The program has changed from what was originally announced, with Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 and Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 replacing dances by Richard and Johann Strauss.
Info: www.hollywoodbowl.com

• Saturday at 7:30 p.m. on The Lawn Adjacent to the Rose Bowl
Pasadena Pops Orchestra; Marvin Hamlisch, conductor
Hamlisch begins his tenure with a program entitled, appropriately enough, “Marvin Does Marvin,” which will feature music from his award-winning scores. The 67-year-old Hamlisch is one of just 12 people to have won Oscars (three of them, in fact), Emmys (four), Grammys (four) and a Tony Award and is one of just two to have swept those four categories plus earned a Pulitzer Prize (the other is Richard Rodgers). Click HERE for my column in last Sunday’s papers.
Info: www.pasadenasymphony-pops.org

• Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Los Angeles County Arboretum
Sunday at 2 p.m. at Walt Disney Concert Hall
California Philharmonic; Victor Vener, conductor
Using the theme “Dancing Under the Stars,” Vener mixes music from West Side Story and dances from Glenn Miller and Queen with Ravel’s Bolero and Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2.
Info: www.calphil.org

Saturday and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at The Huntington Library
Southwest Chamber Music
The Pasadena-based ensemble continues its survey of Mozart’s Quintets with the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, K. 518, and String Quintet No. 3, K. 516. Music by Lei Liang and Yu Nhat Tan complete the bill.
Info: www.swmusic.org

• Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Hollywood Bowl
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Vasily Petrenko, conductor
The 35-year-old Russian conductor leads the Phil in Dvorak’s Carnival Overture and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2. Alexander Gavrylyuk, a 27-year-old Ukranian pianist who won the 3rd Horowitz competition at the age of 16, returns to the Bowl to solo in a Horowitz specialty: Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1.
Info: www.hollywoodbowl.com

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(c) Copyright 2011, Robert D. Thomas. All rights reserved. Portions may be quoted with attribution.

Comments

[MarK]

The last name of the conductor for Tuesday and Thursday concerts at the Hollywood Bowl is Petrenko.

[Bob Thomas]

Oops. Thanks for catching it.
— RDT