Culver City Symphony Orchestra / Sounds of Downtown

The Culver City Symphony Orchestra

Presented by:

SoCal Symphony Society

P. O. Box 4846

Culver City, CA 90231

The CULVER CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA concludes its 2013-14 Season with the concert: Sounds of Downtown, Sat., June 14, 2014, 7:30PM, Kirk Douglas Theater, Downtown Culver City, 9820 Washington Blvd., at Duquesne Ave., Culver City, CA 90232. Free parking under Culver City City Hall across the street from the theater. This is the orchestra's first performance at Kirk Douglas Theater.

This concert is under the direction Conductor/Music Director-Frank Fetta.

Sounds of Downtown

Program:

Frank Fetta-Conductor 

Aaron Copland - Quiet City (1939)

Samuel Barber - Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (1947)

Lori Stinson, Soprano

Maurice Ravel - Le tombeau de Couperin (1917/1919) 

Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 99 (1793)

This performance is made possible in part by a Culver City Performing Arts Grant with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment

(Program and soloist subject to change.)

Admission Charge. 

$25-General Admission, at Kirk Douglas Theater starting at 6:30PM, and on the orchestra website

$15-Members of SoCal Symphony Society and 17-years-of-age and under, only at the box office

For additional information please visit our web site: www.culvercitysymphony.org or call 310-717-5500, or send an e-mail to info@culvercitysymphony.org.

Donations and membership to the SoCal Symphony Society, Inc. are welcome.  

Members of the Westchester Symphony Society received two free admissions to the concerts except for the last concert, are entitled to reserved concert seating, and to a pre-concert talk given by Conductor Fetta. Membership is available at the concert.

SoCal Symphony Society, Inc., presents The Culver City Symphony Orchestra, The Marina del Rey Summer Symphony, and produces the Parness Young Artists Fund Concerto Competition.

The Culver City Symphony Orchestra is now in its fifteenth season performing in Culver City, and is in its 51st year overall. It 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 which performs at Burton Chace Park. The orchestra has performed at The Los Angeles Street Festival, on live-radio music broadcasts from the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.

-Frank Fetta, Conductor and Music Director, 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.

-Soprano Lori Stinson is a frequent concert and opera soloist in the greater Los Angeles area and around the country. She has sung operatic roles with San Diego Opera, Opera Pacific, Glimmerglass Opera, Aspen Opera Theater, Utah Festival Opera, Pacific Repertory Opera, Long Beach Opera, as well as covering roles at New York City Opera.As a concert soloist she has sung with Los Angeles Bach Festival, Redlands Bowl Symphony, Torrance Symphony, The Marina Symphony, Santa Barbara Symphony, Pacific Chorale, Ventura Master Chorale, Foothill Master Chorale as well as many others.

In the past several years she has sung six performances of Carmina Burana including a world premier with Santa Barbara Chorale Society, Vox Femina, The Marina Symphony, Pacific Chorale and most recently with the Long Beach Camarata. Additionally, she is a voice teacher on faculty at Idyllwild Arts Academy, East Los Angeles College and Los Angeles City College.

Frank Fetta and Lori Stinson

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