Gerald Carpenter

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Gerald Carpenter: Opera Santa Barbara Sings 'Marriage of Figaro'

Feb 21, 2025 | noozhawk.com | Gerald Carpenter

Opera Santa Barbara’s (OSB) next production will be “The Marriage of Figaro” (1786), with music by Wolfgang Mozart, and a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on the 1784 play of the same name by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732 -99). “Figaro” plays at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23 in the Lobero Theatre, 33 E Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara. While both performances are sold out, visit here to be notified in the event tickets are returned.
Gerald Carpenter: London Symphony Playing at Granada

Feb 17, 2025 | noozhawk.com | Gerald Carpenter

For the next event in their International Series, the Community Arts-Music Association (CAMA) has teamed up with the Music Academy of the West to co-sponsor bringing to town one of the world’s greatest ensembles, the London Symphony Orchestra, for a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, in the Granada Theater. The London Symphony will be conducted by its new chief conductor Sir Antonio Pappano, with stellar Dutch fiddler Janine Jansen as guest soloist.
Gerald Carpenter: Symphony Salutes First Century of Gold Rush

Feb 15, 2025 | noozhawk.com | Gerald Carpenter

The Santa Barbara Symphony invites audiences to rediscover comedy’s golden age as Charlie Chaplin’s groundbreaking 1925 film ‘The Gold Rush” (now celebrating its first 100 years) is projected on the big screen at the Granada Theatre.
Gerald Carpenter: Music Club Concert Honors Emma Lou Diemer

Feb 6, 2025 | noozhawk.com | Gerald Carpenter

The Santa Barbara Music Club will devote its next free concert to the life and work of Emma Lou Diemer — “doyenne of Santa Barbara composers and inspiration to so many music lovers — with a program of her instrumental and choral music for piano, violin, solo voice and chorus.”The concert is at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, at First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara.
Gerald Carpenter: Chamber Players Offer a Lush, Romantic Program

Jan 28, 2025 | noozhawk.com | Gerald Carpenter

The new kids on our musical block, calling themselves the Santa Barbara Chamber Players, will offer their first concert of 2025, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1 in the First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara. On the podium will be the international sensation (and Santa Barbara resident) Emmanuel Fratianni, conducting; and the exquisite soprano April Amante, supplying the vocals.
Gerald Carpenter: Ojai Chamber Ensemble Offers Piano Trios Program

Jan 24, 2025 | noozhawk.com | Gerald Carpenter

The excellent chamber music provider Chamber on the Mountain will present their first concert of 2025 at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 26 in Logan House, at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, 8585 Ojai-Santa Paula Road, Ojai. The performers will be the internationally celebrated Elixir Trio (Samvel Chilingarian, violin; Fang Fang Xu, cello; and Lucy Nargizyan, (piano) playing a wide selection of piano trios:“Piano Trio No. 5 in C-Major, K.
Arts & Entertainment

Jan 16, 2025 | noozhawk.com | Gerald Carpenter

The Santa Barbara Symphony’s Music & Artistic Director, Nir Kabaretti, has come up with yet another brilliant idea! He calls this one the “Mozart Marathon” (which, notwithstanding the allure of alliteration, would be better described as a “festival”); and instead of the usual Symphony practice of one program played twice, the Marathon will be comprised of two separate programs, played once each, both conducted by Nir Kabaretti, both at the Granada Theater.
Gerald Carpenter: Camerata Concerts Reimagine the Baroque

Jan 13, 2025 | noozhawk.com | Gerald Carpenter

Camerata Pacifica’s January program is the work of Emi Ferguson, new director of Baroque music, flautist and composer, who is collaborating, in this case, with keyboardist and composer Dan Tepfer. The program, called Emergence, includes selections from “Inventione a Violino solo, e Basso continuo” (c.
Gerald Carpenter: Music Club Plays Works by Valinsky and Strauss | Arts & Entertainment | Noozhawk

Jan 10, 2025 | noozhawk.com | Gerald Carpenter

The next free concert from the Santa Barbara Music Club, now in its 55th season, will feature a program of works for piano four hands and for oboe. The concert will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, in St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 4575 Auhay Drive.
Arts & Entertainment

Dec 31, 2024 | noozhawk.com | Gerald Carpenter

There are many—way too many—things we can do on New Year’s Eve that we will later regret, sometimes bitterly. There is one thing we can do, however, that we—unless we are incorrigible grouches—will never regret for a moment, and that is attend the Santa Barbara Symphony’s annual New Year’s Eve party/concert, 8:30-10 p.m. Tuesday, Dec.