| California Desert Chorale - Palm Desert - Presents: Love, Light & Miracles - 32nd Annual Holiday Concert 12/8/2024 - 12/15/2024 (next performance: Sunday, 12/8/2024) Celebrate the holidays with the sparkling brilliance of Vivaldi’s "Magnificat," some toe-tapping Christmas tunes from Broadway shows, beautiful arrangements of familiar carols and Chanukah songs, and the premiere performance of "Wartime Christmas," an original piece composed especially for the California Desert Chorale and soloists, based on the poem by Joyce Kilmer. |
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| Orange County Women's Chorus - Huntington Beach - Presents: Three Journeys: Where We’ve Been - Huntington Beach Sunday, 12/8/2024 OCWC invites audiences to share in the souvenirs they’ve brought back from their three international tours. Hear music for the season for voices and instruments from England and Wales, Canada, and Croatia—plus a special bonus finale from the ensemble’s 2022 Carnegie Hall debut. |
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| El Camino College - Torrance - Presents: ECC Chorale, Concert Choir & Women's Chorus Sunday, 12/8/2024 Holiday Extravaganza
Joanna Medawar Nachef & Soyun Kang, directors
El Camino College proudly presents a Holiday Choral Extravaganza!
This annual concert will feature a major choral work and traditional Holiday favorites.
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| Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts - Malibu - Presents: Pilobolus re:CREATION Sunday, 12/8/2024 Step into a realm where imagination knows no limits. The boundaries of gravity and creativity blur, offering an intimate window into the essence of creativity itself with Pilobolus's re:CREATION tour.
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| Presented by California Chamber Orchestra in association with Temecula Presents - Temecula - Presents: Candlelight Classics Sunday, 12/8/2024 Our annual holiday celebration features brass selections for the season together with a special reception at intermission. The Merc will be decked out in its festive finery. Enjoy a glass of bubbly to help set the mood.
Amy Morris, trumpet
John Tribelhorn, trumpet
Bret Kelley, trombone
Bruce Clausen, horn |
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| Cal State University Fullerton - Fullerton - Presents: Titan Voices & Singing Titans Monday, 12/9/2024 Kimberly Nason & Christopher Peterson, conductors |
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| Center Theatre Group - Los Angeles - Presents: Once Upon a Mattress 12/10/2024 - 1/5/2025 (next performance: Tuesday, 12/10/2024) Musical theatre legend Sutton Foster (The Drowsy Chaperone, The Music Man) returns to the Ahmanson Theatre as Princess Winnifred in this beloved musical fairytale. Full of gloriously catchy melodies like “Shy” and “In a Little While,” this uproarious update of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Princess and the Pea promises both classic charms and new delights. |
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| Cal State University Fullerton - Fullerton - Presents: Fullerton Jazz Orchestra & Fullerton Jazz Chamber Ensemble Tuesday, 12/10/2024 Bill Cunliffe & Rodolfo Zuniga, directors |
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| Salastina - Los Angeles - Presents: A Salastina Compline Wednesday, 12/11/2024 Launching our new Baroque series through musical time travel. |
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| Coachella Valley Repertory - Palm Springs - Presents: The 39 Steps 12/11/2024 - 12/22/2024 (next performance: Wednesday, 12/11/2024) “The 39 Steps is a most original and truly hilariously entertaining comedy that plays out unlike anything you’ve ever experienced.” –Tom Wilson, Chicago Critic
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| Philharmonic Society of Orange County - Irvine - Presents: The Holidays with Canadian Brass Thursday, 12/12/2024 Canadian Brass
Program to be announced from the stage. |
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| The Old Globe - San Diego - Presents: A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story Told by Jefferson Mays 12/12/2024 - 12/22/2024 (next performance: Thursday, 12/12/2024) A Thrilling Solo Rendition of the Holiday Classic |
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| The Soraya - Northridge - Presents: Dorrance Dance: The Nutcracker Suite Thursday, 12/12/2024 Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn, arrangement
Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky, composer |
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| Carpenter Performing Arts Center - Long Beach - Presents: The Klezmatics & Mostly Kosher Thursday, 12/12/2024 A double-bill treat with the bands Klezmatics and Mostly Kosher! |
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| Temecula Theater Foundation in association with Norris Performing Arts Center - Temecula - Presents: Mark Erickson's Nutcracker Ballet (A Christmas Celebration) 12/13/2024 - 12/23/2024 (next performance: Friday, 12/13/2024) Mark Erickson's renowned version of this most-performed ballet in the world has become the event of the season. . . The enchanting tale of a girl’s first love, set to Tchaikovsky's classic score. Join Clara-Marie in her journey of joy, happiness, fear, her first love and with that… excitement, trepidation and fantasy! |
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| LA Phil - Los Angeles - Presents: Zubin Mehta Conducts Gurrelieder 12/13/2024 - 12/15/2024 (next performance: Friday, 12/13/2024) Mehta leads one of his specialties in Schoenberg’s epic and Romantic masterpiece |
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| 5-STAR THEATRICALS, TOARTS & LYTHGOE FAMILY PRODUCTIONS - Thousand Oaks - Presents: Peter Pan And Tinker Bell: A Pirate Christmas 12/13/2024 - 12/29/2024 (next performance: Friday, 12/13/2024) A singing, swashbuckling adventure performed in the high-flying style of a British holiday Panto. Take off on a wild quest with Tinker Bell, Wendy and Peter Pan as they try to put a stop to the plot of some dastardly pirates who plan to kidnap Peter as a present to Captain Hook. Filled with big laughs, magic, dancers and contemporary songs by everyone from Taylor Swift to The Bee Gees |
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| Temecula Theater Foundation in association with Norris Performing Arts Center - Temecula - Presents: Mark Erickson's Nutcracker Ballet 12/13/2024 - 12/23/2024 (next performance: Friday, 12/13/2024) Mark Erickson's renowned version of this most-performed ballet in the world has become the event of the season. . . The enchanting tale of a girl’s first love, set to Tchaikovsky's classic score. Join Clara-Marie in her journey of joy, happiness, fear, her first love and with that… excitement, trepidation and fantasy! |
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| Irvine Barclay Theatre - Irvine - Presents: The King’s Singers Friday, 12/13/2024 Wrap up warm for an extra-special Christmas with The King’s Singers, as they perform festive music from their recent travels across the world, and remember their spiritual home at King’s College, Cambridge. |
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| Torrance Cultural Arts Foundation - Torrance - Presents: Nutcracker 12/13/2024 - 12/14/2024 (next performance: Friday, 12/13/2024) Join Clara on a dreamlike journey with a dancing Nutcracker, mischievous mice, sparkling snowflakes, and a magical Christmas tree. |
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