Culver City High School and the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts will present “Music for the Holidays,” at Friday, Dec. 16, at 7 p.m., in the Robert Frost Auditorium, 4401 Elenda St.
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AVPA Chamber Singers, who perform Dec. 16, as they appeared at last Thursday’s Downtown Christmas Tree Lighting.
Admission is free, with a suggested $5 donation. Refreshments will be available for purchase.
Under the direction of AVPA Creative Director of Music Dr. Tony Spano, the Culver City High School Concert Band will perform holiday favorites, including a jazzy concert band arrangement of familiar tunes and an original band composition entitled “Christmas Bells are Ringing.”
The Concert Band also is the school’s Marching Band, and has performed at 14 football games this season, helping support the football team’s successful playoff run.
The AVPA Chamber Singers, String Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, and Jazz Combos will be featured. The Chamber Singers have recently performed at both holiday tree lighting events in Culver City.
They have been invited to perform for the second year at the Culver City celebration of Martin Luther King Day on Sunday, Jan. 15, at the Senior Center. The Chamber Singers will be joined at this special event by the AVPA Jazz Combos. The Chamber Singers have been working with Assistant Director Aaron Sim since he joined the AVPA faculty last year.
An alumnus of Culver City High School, Mr. Sim received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from USC. He is nearing completion of the master arts in teaching degree from USC.
The AVPA String Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Tania Fleischer, LMU faculty member, will perform classic works, including a movement of Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony, Fantasia on Greensleeves by Vaughn-Williams, and Bugler’s Holiday by Leroy Anderson.
The String Orchestra, which includes student musicians from both the Middle School and High School, will be performing throughout the community this month.
On Thursday, they will perform at the Sunrise Senior Living Facility in Playa Vista at 7 p.m.
Next Wednesday, they will perform at the Senior Center at 1 p.m. A quartet of musicians will perform at the Education Foundation fundraiser at the Marina Del Rey Barnes and Noble on Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Members of the AVPA Percussion Ensemble and Drumline are getting in the holiday spirit by marching in the 13th Westchester, Playa Del Rey, Marina Del Rey, and Playa Vista Holiday Street Parade on Sunday. This is the second year in a row the Drumline has made an appearance in the parade.
At 2 ‘clock, the parade starts at Loyola Boulevard and Manchester, and heads east on Manchester to Emerson Avenue.
See avpa.org
