Jan 2019

THE LIST
Camerata Pacifica
Classics at
Huntington
Jan. 8 — The Camerata
Pacifica chamber
orchestra performs at the Huntington
Library, Art Collections and Botanical
Gardens at 7:30 p.m. The program features
Mozart’s Quintet for Piano and Winds
in E-flat Major, K.52, Poulenc’s Sextet and
Beethoven’s Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20.
Tickets cost $58.
The Huntington Library, Art Collections
and Botanical Gardens is located at 1151
Oxford Rd., San Marino. Call (805) 884-8410
or visit cameratapacifica.org.
A SELECTIVE PREVIEW OF UPCOMING EVENTS
COMPILED BY JOHN SOLLENBERGER
of Helen and Dido,” which describes the
Queen of Carthage meeting the shipwrecked
Aeneas and the doomed love
affair that follows. Romanelli’s tapestries
describing the affair, now on display, are
perhaps the most famous works retelling
the tale.
Jan. 13 — An Art Adventures Tour at
1:30 p.m. explores works by Edgar Degas
for clues to why his iconic sculpture, Little
Dancer, Aged Fourteen, is not dancing
and what ballerinas in his other works
might say about her if they could talk.
The Norton Simon Museum is located at
411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. Call
(626) 449-6840 or visit nortonsimon.org.
Chinese Stories,
California Catastrophes
Jan. 10 — A garden
talk and plant sale
features rose hybridizer Tom Carruth, curator
of the Huntington’s Rose Collections,
introducing his newest creation, the “Huntington’s
Hundredth” rose, commemorating
the institution’s upcoming centennial. It
will be available for purchase following the
2:30 p.m. presentation. Admission is free;
no reservations are required.
Jan. 16 — In a Billington Lecture titled “An
American Genocide: The United States
and the California Indian Catastrophe,
1846–1873,” Benjamin Madley, UCLA associate
professor of history, discusses the
near-annihilation and survival of California’s
indigenous population under U.S. rule,
starting at 7:30 p.m., followed by a book
signing. Free; no reservations required.
Jan. 20 — A Chinese music program, “An
Afternoon of Pingtan,” features artists from
the Shanghai Pingtan Company performing
classic scenes and new works from
the traditional musical and oral storytelling
art that originated in the Suzhou area of
China, starting at 2 p.m. Free; no reservations
required.
Jan. 29 — Violinist Martin Chalifour, principal
concertmaster of the L.A. Philharmonic,
and friends perform a 7:30 p.m.
chamber music concert of 18th-century
works that Thomas Gainsborough, painter
of The Blue Boy, would have recognized.
The program includes compositions by
the artist’s friends, Carl Friedrich Abel and
Johann Christian Bach, plus works by classical
composers William Boyce and Mozart.
Tickets cost $60 ($50 for members). Visit
huntington.org/calendar for reservations.
COMING UP ROSES IN
PASADENA
Jan. 1 — The 130th Rose Parade returns to Pasadena, starting at 8 a.m. at the corner
of Orange Grove and Colorado boulevards, continuing down Colorado Boulevard
to Sierra Madre Boulevard and ending at Villa Street. This year’s theme is “The Melody
of Life,” and the grand marshal is singer, songwriter and philanthropist Chaka Khan.
The Rose Queen is Sequoyah High School senior Louise Deser Siskel.
Jan. 1 and 2 — View the floats up close during the annual Showcase of Floats, from
1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday at the corner of Sierra Madre
and Washington boulevards. Tickets cost $15; free for children age 5 and younger.
Free shuttles are available from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. both days at Pasadena City College,
1570 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, and from 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday
at Rose Bowl Stadium Lot 3, 1001 Rose Bowl Dr., Pasadena. Tickets are available
through Sharp Seating.
Visit tournamentofroses.com for information and sharpseating.com for tickets.
The Huntington Library, Art Collections
and Botanical Gardens is located at 1151
Oxford Rd., San Marino. Call (626) 405-2100
or visit huntington.org.
Discover What’s
Behind the
Makeup
Jan. 12 and 13 — The
International Makeup
Artist Trade Show (IMATS) at the Pasadena
Convention Center spotlights makeup artists
and exhibitors, including Rod Maxwell,
Ashley Fierro, Richard Martin, Eve Pearl and
others from the fashion and film industries.
Look for makeup workshops with professional
artists, a makeup museum, student
makeup competitions, education and
demonstrations. The show is open from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. Sunday. Ticket prices range from
$45 to $275. Visit IMATS’ website for details.
The Pasadena Convention Center is
located at 300 E. Green St., Pasadena. Visit
imats.net/2019-los-angeles.
Dido’s Dalliance,
Degas’ Dancer at
Norton Simon
All events are included
in regular museum
admission price of $15, $12 for seniors; free
for members, students and visitors 18 and
younger.
Jan. 12 — Norton Simon Museum Curator
Gloria Williams Sander (above) lectures
on “Love at First Sight: Romanelli’s Dido
and Aeneas Tapestry Suite” at 4 p.m. She
explores the tales told in the current exhibition,
“Once Upon a Tapestry: Woven Tales
Two Twists on
Southern Sounds
at Caltech
Jan. 12 — The
Pasadena Folk Music
Society hosts an 8 p.m.
concert at Caltech’s Beckman Institute
Auditorium (not the larger Beckman Auditorium
nearby), starring notable singer/
songwriters Lauren Sheehan and Susie
Glaze (above) performing contemporary
works from the American folk music
songbook. While both singers are rooted in
Anglo-influenced Appalachian folk music,
their work took different trajectories. Glaze
founded the Hilonesome Band, based in
contemporary folk and Americana music,
while Sheehan discovered a musical
home in the sounds of Robert Johnson, the
Carter Family, Mississippi John Hurt, Hank
Williams and Gillian Welch. Tickets cost $20,
$5 for children and Caltech students.
The Beckman Institute Auditorium is located
at 400 S. Wilson Ave., Pasadena, on
the Caltech campus. Call (626) 395-4652
or visit pasadenafolkmusicsociety.org.
Kaleidoscope
Salutes Female
and Male
Composers
Jan. 19 — Kaleidoscope,
founded in
2014 as an innovative, conductorless
orchestra, presents a season of orchestral
and chamber music by 21 female and 17
male composers, celebrating women’s
contributions to the world of classical
music. This month’s concert, scheduled
for 7 p.m. in Pasadena City College’s
Westerbeck Recital Hall, includes works by
Kaija Saariaho (“Spins and Spells”), the U.S.
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