Torrance Symphony

The Torrance Symphony Association presents
The Palos Verdes Symphonic Band, celebrating its
50th Anniversary under the direction of David Stanton

Come and enjoy the fabulous music of: Show Tunes, “Big Band” Jazz, Marches, Latin Music and a Beatles Multimedia Medley.

Torrance Symphony FUNdraise Come at 7pm and participate in an Opportunity Drawing, Silent Auction and a chance to win a hat decorated with $100 in cash. Refreshments available.

Tickets: $30 per person (Reserved Seating) Call the box office 310-781-7171 or 310-373-2442 for tickets and information

All proceeds will benefit the Torrance Symphony’s final concert on June 16th that will feature Alexander Treger, violinist, who is the former concertmaster of the L.A Phil. It will be a special Taiwan evening with Dr. Tyzen Hsiao, composer, attending the concert. Maestro Frank Fetta, Alexander Treger and the Torrance Symphony Orchestra will be performing Dr. Hsiao’s Violin Concerto.

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Dedicated followers of the Torrance Symphony who attended Saturday's concert at the James Armstrong Theatre in Torrance saw firsthand how boldly a conductor puts his thumbprint on an orchestra's performance.

Maestro Frank Fetta, the symphony's longtime regular conductor, had another obligation, and under dynamic guest conductor Mikael Avetisyan, artistic director and principal conductor of the Glendale Philharmonic Orchestra, our local orchestra sounded like an entirely different group of players.

From the very first trumpet calls in Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, "Spring," composed in 1841, Avetisyan, a native of Armenia, infused the orchestra with an intense energy. .... (more)

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Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 #3 - Torrance Symphony Centennial Concert - Torrance

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The Daily Breeze Review of Torrance Symphony Cenetennial Concert

Pianist's virtuosity keys up Torrance Symphony celebration
by Kari Sayers
Posted: 01/26/2012 08:06:37 PM PST

Torrance Symphony, under the baton of maestro Frank Fetta, honored its home city with "The Torrance Centennial Celebration" concert Saturday at the James Armstrong Theatre. For the occasion, the orchestra secured a formidable young pianist, Beiyao Ji, a 2011 Young Artists Concerto Competition winner. He gave a dazzling performance of Rachmaninoff's challenging Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor. The piece, composed in 1909, starts innocently enough with a simple theme before the notes start to fly off the page. ....

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Violinist Mayumi Kanagawa, 16, of Japan, has won the 26th annual Irving M. Klein International String Competition held June 4 and 5 on the campus of San Francisco State University.

Kanagawa takes home the Marvin T. Tepperman Memorial Prize, which includes $12,200 and performances with the Peninsula and Santa Cruz symphonies, and Noontime Concerts, among others. Kanagawa also won the $200 Allen and Susan Weiss Memorial Prize for the Best Performance of the Commissioned Work and the $500 Pablo Casals Prize for the best performance of the solo Bach work.

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First Annual "Torrance Symphony Idol" was an artistic success. The caliber of the young musicians was a real class act!

5 young musicians are winners and will perform with the Symphony Orchestra during the upcoming season. CONGRATULATIONS!!

The Torrance Symphony took the stage for its third concert of the season Saturday at the James Armstrong Theatre, in a program intriguingly titled "March Musical Madness."

Despite the promise of "madness," the opening of Jean Baptiste Lully's "Roland Suite" seemed to speak more to the subtle baroque and classical styles to come. The suite's six movements represented selections from Lully's opera "Roland." A tragic opera, the mood of each movement seemed to build on the previous, from somber at the start to a mournfully passionate conclusion. ...

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