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Arts & Lit

Two Friends Take on the American Dream

Kelly Hamlin and Julian Michael’s BAFF Entry Embraces Montage, Mirrors and Movement.

July 10, 2025
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Limelight

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

LACO features wonderful composers who just happened to be women.  

April 8, 2025
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Neighborhood 411

Yoga Sound Baths Offered for Eaton Fire Trauma Victims

Community volunteers harmonize for healing.

April 2, 2025
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Limelight

Breaking Voices, Not Spirits

How a boys' choir leadership conquered the puberty octave drop.

March 26, 2025
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With This Ring

Bard and Muse: A Love Story

Devastation has not destroyed the love of the Ash family.

March 19, 2025
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Arts & Lit/Limelight

Lisa Vroman: The Forever Ingénue

'Phantom of the Opera' actress finds a home in Pasadena.

December 1, 2024
Dom Flemons The American Songster
Limelight

Gittin’ Down-Home with LACO

Folk standards find a new audience with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.

November 30, 2024
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Limelight

Seeing the Light with Claire Holley

Singer-songwriter Claire Holley warms the heart and touches the spirit

November 30, 2024
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Limelight

Off to the Kingdom of Sweets

Marionettes lend a new level of delicious weirdness to a Christmas classic.

November 26, 2024
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Limelight

Verdi and Bizet Meet at the Beach

The Verdi Chorus celebrates classic opera during tough times.

November 10, 2024
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Limelight

‘HomeCare’ Fuses Choral Music with Climate Action

Alexander Lloyd Blake and Tonality at Caltech.

October 29, 2024
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Limelight

LACO’s Chameleon-Like Adaptability

Violin virtuoso Margaret Batjer reveals how a small-ish orchestra delivers big performances.

October 23, 2024
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Cohesion & Community

Chick-Power on Tap

Swiffling at the Senior Center. Even Lil Nas X is a fan.

October 21, 2024
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Limelight

‘Sailing’ With Yacht Rocker Christopher Cross  

Music award-winner raises funds for Pacific Jazz Orchestra.

October 14, 2024
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Limelight

Back To Wy

Wynonna's country western storyteller concert hits Disney Hall.

October 7, 2024
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Limelight

Camerata Pacifica Opens 2024-25 Season at The Huntington

Soloists deliver trains, planes, rockets and even a lazy river cruise.

September 22, 2024
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Limelight

Passage to Identity

Asdru Sierra brings South El Monte soul to Sierra Madre.

September 13, 2024
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Limelight

Flying High with Camerata Pacifica

Founder Adrian Spence defies musicial convention, and occasionally gravity.

August 24, 2024
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Limelight

Resonant Frequencies

The yoga of sound comes to the Sierra Madre Playhouse.

August 10, 2024
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Limelight

Music On (a) Mission

South Pasadena's hottest live music venue is the tile store.

August 7, 2024
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Limelight

Kathy Kallick Band Brings the Bluegrass on August 3rd

Four decades of bluegrass alchemy on stage.

July 11, 2024
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Limelight

Pacific Opera Project Deftly Lands the Catch of the Season at Descanso Gardens

Water nymph soprano? Check. Huge set? Check. Defies expectations? Check.

July 10, 2024
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Limelight

A Performance Worthy of a Michelin Star

Yes, we'll have some more of that, please.

May 28, 2024
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Limelight

His Main Squeeze

Julien Labro redefines accordion and bandoneon, and how we feel about them.

May 5, 2024
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My Father, Michael Madsen

Local News Pasadena correspondent Calvin Madsen remembers his famous father.

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AFTERBURN

Victoria Thomas, from Pasadena to Crete and back again.

With This Ring

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Bard and Muse: A Love Story

Devastation has not destroyed the love of the Ash family.


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