Tickets are $12.50 (including the $2.50 box office service charge)
at the Armstrong box office (call 310-781-7171).
Free Admission for Friends of the Symphony Membership. No Additional ticket needs be purchased.
For information, call (310) 373-2442
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2011 opening concert
Conducted by Frank P Fetta, Featuring
Young Artist Concerto Competition Winners
Nathan Le (Cello Soloist) and Stefani Feldman (Clarinet Soloist)
First of 4 concerts at the Armstrong Theatre for the Torrance Symphony 2011-12 Season Tickets are $12.50 (including the $2.50 box office service charge) at the Armstrong box office (call 310-781-7171).
Free Admission for Friends of the Symphony Membership. No Additional ticket needs be purchased.
For information, call (310) 373-2442
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.
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. ...
South Bay concertgoers were in for a surprising treat at the James Armstrong Theatre in Torrance Saturday night.
The occasion was a rare concert by the Torrance Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Maestro Frank Fetta, in collaboration with the Taiwanese United Fund. Dubbed "Taiwan Night Concert," the program featured lush nationalistic music by 73-year-old Taiwanese composer Tyzen Hsiao, who was in the audience despite poor health. ...
