The Culver City Symphony Orchestra continues its 45th season with a concert on Saturday evening at 8 at the Vets Auditorium, 4117 Overland Ave.
The concert, On Our Way Up, under the direction of Conductor Frank Fetta, features winners from the Intermediate Division (ages 15-18) of the Parness Concerto Competition for Young Artists, sponsored by the orchestra.
The program:
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (1st Movement), Anne Lee-violin.
Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole (1st & 4th Movements), Niv Ashkenazi-violin.
Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2 (1st movement), Joseph Tsai-piano.
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 (complete).
There is no admission fee, and donations and membership to the Westchester Symphony Society, Inc. are welcome. For concert information: http://www.culvercitysymphony.org or 310.837.5757.
Members of the Westchester Symphony Society are entitled to a pre-concert talk given by Maestro Fetta and to reserved concert seating. Membership is available at the concert. The Westchester Symphony Society, Inc., presents The Culver City Symphony Orchestra, and produces the Parness Young Artists Fund Concerto Competition, held at West Los Angeles College .
The Culver City Symphony Orchestra is now in its eighth year performing in Culver City, and in its 45 seasons (formerly as the Culver City-Marina-Westchester Symphony) 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 that performs at Burton Chace Park.
The orchestra and its members have performed at the Los Angeles Street Festival, on live-radio music broadcasts from the County Museum of Natural History, and television, “The Ice Man Hummeth,” created by Michael J. Fox for the David Letterman Show.
Maestro Fetta 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 (of which he is director), the Fresno Philharmonic, the Torrance Symphony, the Nevada Opera Theater, and the Marina del Rey Summer Symphony.
This performance is made possible, in part, by a grant from the City of Culver City Art in Public Places Fund with support from the Sony Pictures Entertainment Platinum Sponsorship.
Free parking is available.
