Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/15/2024
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
First Church of the Nazarene of Pasadena
Category(ies)
Challenge your love of classical music – come and enjoy something new: a percussion concerto, performed by the amazing young percussionist, Torrance Buntyn, Jr.
The Pasadena Community Orchestra brings you this concerto as part of our partnership with the Alliance of Black Orchestral Percussionists (ABOP). ABOP is a nonprofit providing professional development to young and emerging Black percussionists seeking a career in symphonic percussion. Through comprehensive training and mentorship, ABOP prepares Black percussionists for the concert stage, thereby helping to change the future face of symphonic orchestras nationwide.
The program opens with the famous Adagietto from Gustav Mahler’s 5th Symphony, followed by the Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra by Canadian contemporary classical composer Allan Gordon Bell. Then we hear a work by the early 20th century American composer Amy Beach, and a symphony by Josef Haydn.
> PCO concerts are always free admission, and there is plenty of free parking.
There will be a pre-concert lecture by the percussion soloist, at 7:20pm in the auditorium. Concert itself starts at 8:00pm.