Don Vappie and the Creole Jazz Serenaders will perform on Saturday, December 5, at 8 p.m. in Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium.
The repertoire of this classic jazz orchestra from New Orleans includes Creole jazz from the early years, as well as music from Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong. Duke Ellington. McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, Mills Blue Rhythm Band, Jabbo Smith, The New Orleans Owls, The Astoria Hot Eight, and many others.
The Creole Jazz Serenaders had the honor of performing the world premier of Jelly Roll Morton’s lost manuscripts and received acclaim for a classic jazz program of Jelly Roll Morton, Creole, and other classics performed with the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra. Their CD In Search of King Oliver was the subject of a PRI radio program of the same name. The CD Creole Blues is one of Offbeat Magazine’s essential 100 CDs of the 20th century from Louisiana and has been featured on Delta Airlines in-flight music program, as well as Nick Spitzer’s American Routes radio program on NPR.
Tickets to this performance are priced at $26.00, $21.00, and $16.00; youth (high school age and younger): $10.00. Senior rush tickets will go on sale for $10.00, beginning one-half hour before the performance (subject to availability). Tickets can be purchased at the Caltech Ticket Office, 332 S. Michigan Avenue, Pasadena.
Parking for Beckman Auditorium is located at 332 South Michigan Avenue, Pasadena (south of Del Mar Boulevard). For information, call (626) 395-4652.
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Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats to Perform at Caltech
The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats will perform on Friday, October 9, at 8 p.m. in Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium.
Under the direction of acrobatic legends, the Hai Family, the company interprets the precision and grace of an art form honed by years of training and discipline: Chinese acrobatics. Their multi-faceted and multi-cultural production features acrobatic displays, feats of daring and balance, Kung Fu, brilliant costumes, and even a touch of Chinese comedy.
Along with several television appearances, including That’s Incredible, the troupe was awarded the Performing Arts Campus Entertainment Award by the National Association for Campus Activities (1986), and was nominated for the 1998 Campus Activities Today Reader’s Choice Award for Best Live Novelty Act.
Tickets to this performance are priced at $29.00, $24.00, and $19.00; youth (high school age and younger): $10.00. Senior rush tickets will go on sale for $10.00, beginning one-half hour before the performance (subject to availability). Tickets can be purchased at the Caltech Ticket Office, 332 S. Michigan Avenue, Pasadena.
Parking for Beckman Auditorium is located at 332 South Michigan Avenue, Pasadena (south of Del Mar Boulevard). For information, call (626) 395-4652.
Under the direction of acrobatic legends, the Hai Family, the company interprets the precision and grace of an art form honed by years of training and discipline: Chinese acrobatics. Their multi-faceted and multi-cultural production features acrobatic displays, feats of daring and balance, Kung Fu, brilliant costumes, and even a touch of Chinese comedy.
Along with several television appearances, including That’s Incredible, the troupe was awarded the Performing Arts Campus Entertainment Award by the National Association for Campus Activities (1986), and was nominated for the 1998 Campus Activities Today Reader’s Choice Award for Best Live Novelty Act.
Tickets to this performance are priced at $29.00, $24.00, and $19.00; youth (high school age and younger): $10.00. Senior rush tickets will go on sale for $10.00, beginning one-half hour before the performance (subject to availability). Tickets can be purchased at the Caltech Ticket Office, 332 S. Michigan Avenue, Pasadena.
Parking for Beckman Auditorium is located at 332 South Michigan Avenue, Pasadena (south of Del Mar Boulevard). For information, call (626) 395-4652.
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