Friends of Music 2019–2020 Season

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Friends of Music at Pasadena Presbyterian Church offers an extensive annual series of concerts featuring nationally and internationally known artists, local performers, and PPC's resident ensembles. All programs are open to the public free of charge (a voluntary offering is taken).

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Delirium Musicum Chamber Orchestra

The extraordinary chamber orchestra returns for its third Friends of Music engagement.
Saturday, October 5, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.
Free Admission ~ Voluntary offering

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The “King of Instruments” takes center stage in this free concert, as Pasadena Presbyterian Church’s magnificent Æolian-Skinner pipe organ is heard with other instruments.
Saturday, November 9, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.
Free Admission ~ Voluntary offering

75th Annual Candlelight & Carols

“A Pasadena Holiday Tradition for the Whole Family™,” featuring resident and guest musicians of Pasadena Presbyterian Church accompanied by the Friends of Music Orchestra.
Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 4:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Free Admission ~ Voluntary offering

The Great American Songbook

PPC’s professional quartet sing favorites from the Great American Songbook.
Saturday, January 25, 2020 at 7:30pm
Free Admission ~ Voluntary offering

Faythe Freese, organist

Internationally-hailed organist Faythe Freese plays a solo recital on PPC’s iconic Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ.
Saturday, February 22, 2020 at 7:30pm
Free Admission ~ Voluntary offering

The Modern Brass Quintet

One of PPC’s Resident Ensembles offers a program of original compositions and arrangements sure to send your spirit soaring.
Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 7:30 p.m.
Free Admission ~ Voluntary offering

CANCELLED due to COVID restrictions

23rd annual Good Friday Devotional Concert

Featuring Karl Jenkins’ Stabat Mater
Friday, April 10, 2020 at 7:30 p.m.
Free Admission ~ Voluntary offering

CANCELLED due to the ensemble’s inability to tour this year. 

The Westminster Concert Bell Choir

An evening of virtuosic handbell ringing
Friday, May 22, 2020 at 7:30pm
Free Admission ~ Voluntary offering

CANCELLED due to COVID restrictions

Jazz for the City

Enjoy an early summer’s evening program of relaxing jazz!
Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 7:30 p.m.
Free Admission ~ Voluntary offering