Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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The Tehachapi Symphony bids a fond farewell to Cellist Samuel Torres, who is leaving this week to attend Coast Guard Boot Camp in New Jersey. The Coast Guard is very selective and only takes the finest recruits into their ranks. Samuel definitely fits that definition. Samuel has played the Cello since he was 9 years old. He played in the Tehachapi Strings Orchestra and then moved up to the Tehachapi Symphony. Members of the audience often remarked on his beautiful curly hair and the big smile...
Tehachapi Symphony finished its 25th season of beautiful music making with its annual patriotic concert on June 23, featuring anthems with the Symphonic Chorus, marches, pop music, show tunes and various other genres, to great acclaim from their patrons. And then there was a huge season finale, as the Symphony's esteemed Music Director, Dr. David Newby, married Alicia Lifquist, one of the Symphony's first violins, on the Fourth of July weekend! The wedding and subsequent reception were held at...
On Sunday, March 12, Rufus Choi will perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto #5, "Emperor." The concert begins at 4 p.m at Country Oaks Baptist Church, 20915 Schout Rd. Beethoven completed writing the Emperor concerto in Vienna in April 1809 while the city was under siege by Napoleon's armies. The work premiered in Leipzig, Germany, in 1811, and it remains the best known and most frequently performed of Beethoven's five piano concerti. Soloist Dr. Rufus Choi, a Korean-American pianist, has performed...
