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Pasadena Symphony’s Seven-Conductor Season

The Pasadena Symphony and POPS is well into its 2021-22 season, leading a pandemic-be-damned lineup headed by seven notable conductors. The crowd-pleasing roster includes predictable standards to max ticket sales–Beethoven Symphony Nos. 5 and 7, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, and the ever-popular Holiday Candlelight concert held at All Saints Church on December 18. (The orchestra’s classics …

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Maestro Hits a Flat Note Dramatically, but Soars Musically

The life of Arturo Toscanini, perhaps the greatest conductor of the 20th century, would make a fascinating drama. In addition to collaborating with all the top names of the music world in his decades-long career, he bravely took a stance against fascism in his native Italy and in Nazi Germany, leaving Europe in the late …

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