Culver City Symphony to Present “A Winter’s Concert”

The Culver City Symphony Orchestra continues its 2015-16 Season with A Winter’s Concert, Sat., January 30, 2016, 8:00PM, Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 4117 Overland Ave. and Culver Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230. Free parking, entrances from Culver Blvd.

The warm sounds of strings of the orchestra will feature Guest Artis-Oboist Claire Brazeau from Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Parness Competition Special Award-Violinist Usha Kapoor.

This concert is under the direction Conductor/Music Director-Frank Fetta.

PROGRAM, January 30, 2016

J.S. Bach: Violin Concerto, E Major
Usha Kapoor-Violin

Domenico Cimarosa: Oboe Concerto

Ennio Morricone: “Gabriel’s Oboe”
Claire Brazeau-Oboe

Felix Mendelssohn:
String Symphony, No. 8

William Grant Still:
Panamanian Dances

Admission Charge.
$10: GEN ADMN. At Veterans Memorial Auditorium the evening of the performance and on-line: www.culvercitysymphony.org

$5: 13-17 years of age and under. Box Office the evening of the performance.

Free: Ages 6-12, when accompanied by an adult.

Box Office opens at 7:00PM the evening of the concert

 

The Culver City Symphony Orchestra is now in its sixteenth year performing in Culver City, and is in its 53rd season. It has performed in many regional venues in the communities of Westchester, Venice, Los Angeles, San Gabriel, and now Culver City.

In addition to presenting the standard orchestra repertoire and concert dramatizations of operas, the orchestra has presented unique concerts devoted to Black American, Hispanic, and Women composers. It is the parent orchestra of the Marina del Rey Summer Symphony which performs at Burton Chace Park. The orchestra has performed at The Los Angeles Street Festival, on live-radio music broadcasts from the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.

Frank Fetta, Conductor and Music Director, is well known for his conducting of orchestral music, ballet, and opera in Southern California as well as throughout the country including engagements with the San Diego Symphony, the Redlands Bowl Music Festival- music director, The San Bernardino Symphony-music director, the Fresno Philharmonic, the Torrance Symphony, the Nevada Opera Theater, and the Marina del Rey Symphony.