Nobody who lives and breathes and can hear music needs an introduction to the Beach Boys, the band of brothers and cousins that more or less put Southern California on the musical map with a surfeit of surf hits followed by pop songs and, later, Pet Sounds, perhaps the greatest pop album of all time. […]
Brent Anderson has been singing in Barbershop Harmony choruses for 40 years, the last 19 as part of Pacific Sounds, a group he co-formed back in 1999 to serve as a competition and show choir long before anyone heard of TV’s Glee or the Pitch Perfect movies. Part of the 700-chapter-strong Barbershop Harmony Society, Pacific […]
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It couldn’t have been a more perfect evening when the Music Academy of the West threw its annual gala at the impeccably manicured Miraflores campus with 300 guests raising around $750,000 for its scholarship fund and community initiatives. After quaffing cocktails in the garden, the music lovers repaired to Hahn Hall for a 90-minute concert […]
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The Squire Foundation’s second mini-partnership residency this summer 2018 is Chicago-based music composer and conductor Jim Stephenson. He is working in partnership with Ben Halpern, Ph.D.,UCSB marine scientistand executive director of the UCSB National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) and the Music Academy of the West (MAW) Montecito. Stephenson will be composing a […]
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The endless inventive stage director James Darrah teams with conductor James Conlon for an all-new production of Mozart’s comic opera The Marriage of Figaro, the 220-year old opus on passion and commitment set against class struggles and obstacles. Darrah turned the Music Academy of the West community on its ear in early July with OperaFest, […]
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The Music Academy of the West’s (MAW) annual gala benefit concert is anchored by a quintet of distinguished alumni artists. Among the former Fellows performing at this year’s special fundraiser are soprano Brenda Rae (2008), whom Opera News has praised for her “dazzling, pinpoint coloratura,” and bass-baritone Brandon Cedel (2010-11), whom The New Yorker‘s Alex […]
