Free Glendale Noon Concerts: Pianist JAMES LENT American Celebration

On August 5, 2026, the Glendale Noon Concerts will feature pianist James Lent performing a program celebrating the 250th anniversary of America with works by Joplin, Copland, Barber, Mancini, and Gershwin.

RELAX DURING YOUR LUNCH HOUR WITH LIVE MUSIC
On Wednesday AUGUST 5, 2026
at 12:10-12:40 pm PT
in the Sanctuary of Glendale City Church
610 E. California, Glendale, CA 91206
https://glendalecitychurch.org/location

GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS
Every First & Third Wednesdays at 12:10-12:40 pm

Wednesday AUGUST 5, 2026 at 12:10-12:40 pm PT

JAMES LENT
Solo Piano Recital
A program celebrating the 250th anniversary of America

Maple Leaf Rag- Scott Joplin

No. 3 from Four Piano Blues- Aaron Copland

Bumbleboogie- Jack Fina

Prelude No. 1 - George Gershwin

Fugue from Piano Sonata, Op. 26- Samuel Barber

Variations on the Pink Panther- Lent/Mancini

Rhapsody in Blue- George Gershwin

Pianist James Lent is a lecturer and coordinator of Collaborative Piano at UCLA. Lent completed his DMA at the Yale School of Music under teachers Boris Berman, Claude Frank and Peter Frankl. He made his Alabama Symphony debut to critical acclaim performing Rachmaninoff’s “Concerto No. 2” on 24 hours notice to replace Andre Watts and also performed with the Torrance Symphony, Vancouver Symphony and the Houston Symphony, among others, and as solo recitalist at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Germany, for the National Chopin Foundation in Miami, at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where he premiered a new work written for him by American composer Frederic Rzewski.
His numerous awards include prizes in the New York Concert Artists Guild International Competition, the National Chopin Competition, the Washington International Piano Competition at the Kennedy Center, among others. He was a fellowship recipient at the Aspen Music Festival, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal. Lent also teaches at AMDA (American Musical and Dramatic Academy) as collaborative pianist, vocal coach and musical director.