Torrance Symphony

Speakeasy Cabaret with the Cherry Willow Jazz Band - Authentic Dixieland

Peppy music for listening and dancing. Desserts and beverages provided. A silent auction and opportunity drawing will also help finance the Family Concert on March 10th. Ticket price - $30 Make your reservations now – (Less than 100 tickets left.) A FUN evening is guaranteed starting at 8pm (1920s Costumes optional). We hope to see you there! The symphony really needs your support! For information, call --- (310) 373-2442

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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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