Summer Festival Banner
 

"the music brimmed over 

with imagination, scintillated with color, and convinced

with meaningful, concise eloquence."

 

Los Angeles Times

 

Quick Links

 

  

Directions

 

Email Us 

 

Southwest Chamber Music Website

 
Southwest Chamber Music

 

 638 E Colorado Blvd
Suite 201

Pasadena, CA 91101-2006

 

Toll Free: 1-800-726-7147

 

www.swmusic.org


Connect with Southwest

 

Like us on Facebook

 

Follow us on Twitter


View our videos on YouTube


Featured Artists

 

 

Ayana Haviv





























































"Two concerts under the stars with Southwest Chamber Music"

Join us for this weekend's performance of Gabriela Ortiz's
Baalkah for Soprano and String Quartet, featured today in the LA Times Critic's Pick.
 
 

By Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times Music Critic

 

The music of Gabriela Ortiz has many roots. She links ancient and modern traditions of her native Mexico. In "Camelia la Tejana," which Long Beach Opera mounted in the spring, she dealt imaginatively with border drug trafficking and Mexican feminism, creating the new genre of narco-opera.

 

In "Baalkah," songs for soprano and string quartet that Southwest Chamber Music will perform Saturday and Sunday evenings at the Huntington Library, Ortiz considers the mysterious pre-Columbian cosmos.

 

Ortiz happens to also be the latest recipient of Southwest's southwestern explorations, which have resulted in Grammy-winning recordings of the percussion music of Carlos Chavez, Mexico's best known 20th century composer.

 

Now the ensemble has a new CD devoted to Ortiz that includes a kaleidoscopically metallic score for two harps and steel drum and a curiously disorienting string quartet that puts late Mozart into a modern Mayan stew.

 

And more Mozartean Mayan business might be expected at the Huntington, where the concerts are outdoors with seats available on a veranda or on the lawn under the stars. 

 

Night rules, too, in a program that surrounds "Baalkah" with Mozart's "Little Night Music" and Schoenberg's "Transfigured Night."


Gabriela Ortiz 
Aroma Foliado

Ortiz CD

Purchase your copy of Southwest's newest release here!


Also available for download on

A Weekend of Night Music

Saturday, July 27 & Sunday, July 28

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
Serenade, K. 525 "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"
Gabriela Ortiz
Baalkah for Soprano & String Quartet, featuring Ayana Haviv
Arnold Schoenberg
String Sextet "Verklärte Nacht"
 
The concerts will be held on the loggia of the Huntington Art Gallery, with additional seating under the stars on the lawn.  
All concerts begin at 7:30 pm
The Huntington1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino, CA 91108
 
NOTE: The Huntington parking lot is undergoing construction. Please allow extra time.  

Single Tickets
$65 Loggia Seating, $28 Lawn Admission, $60 Dinner Tickets

 

For tickets or information:

(800) 726-7147 or www.swmusic.org

Southwest Chamber Music | 638 E. Colorado Blvd. | Suite 201 | Pasadena | CA | 91101