2013 Events Event: Marion Davies Birthday Party at the Beach House
Date: January 6
Time: 12:00:00 PM
The Docents of the Santa Monica Conservancy have
invited us to celebrate the anniversary of Marion Davies birth. Join La
Senora as we take a small group of friends (dressed in 1930s costumes or plain
attire, as you please) to learn more about Marion's life.
Event: Land of Smoke and Mirrors
Date: January 9
Time: 02:00:00 PM
Description: Heritage lecture given as part of the Autry's "Conversations on
Convergence" lecture series. These 2013 lectures examine the inter-ethnic
connections that have shaped the City of Los Angeles.
Event: All-State Jazz Band
Date: January 18
Description: JAZZ CONCERT & FREE CLINIC WITH BOBBY SHEW
Two students from the Samohi Jazz program were chosen
to play the leads in the California All State Jazz Band!
There are only 17 students chosen for the All-State Jazz Band and only three lead
positions (trumpet, trombone and saxophone). Samohi will have senior Eli Brown
as lead trumpet, and junior Kyle McCreight as lead trombone (for the second
year in a row). Jazz was a big part of the Salon Era at the Mojica Hacienda
during the 1930s .....it had a 'special flavor' with Gershwin composing it at
the piano in the Music Salon.
Event: Classical Music Declassified: Trapeze
Date: March 2
The La Senora Classical Music for Youth program begins its 2013 Season with an invitation from The Broad Theater for the first in our Season's series of concerts featuring students from The Colburn School to take place on the Broad stage . Join us for Trapeze. Our second Colburn experience in our 2013 Season will also be at the Broad Stage with a performance by The Colburn School students on March 16 when we hear the music of Wynton Marsalis as inspired by Stravinsky. La Senora is a grantee of The Colburn Foundation lending support to our own onsite classical chamber music programming at the Mojica Hacienda. Our classical programming for youth is supported in part by a grant from the Pacific Palisades Women's Club and the generosity of the Broad Stage.
Event: Classical Music DeClassified: A Fiddler's Tale
Date: March 16
Time: 11:00:00 AM
This is the 2nd in La Senora's youth classical music programs presented courtesy of a collaboration with the Broad Stage and classical music programming support from The Colburn Foundation. La Senora's youth classical music series is supported in part by a grant from the Pacific Palisades Women's Club.
Event: Malibu Coast Silent Film Orchestra
Date: March 17
Montgomery House Silent Film Division presents “Quality Street,” a 1927 silent feature starring Marion Davies. With live score composed and conducted by Maria Newman, a 2011 Annenberg Foundation commission. Performed by the MALIBU COAST SILENT FILM ORCHESTRA. Introduced by WENDY PROBER -SPaCE Salon, Director of Music & SCOTT HOSFELD, Music Director and Conductor of the Malibu Coast Chamber Orhestra and the Malibu Coast Silent Film Orchestra.
MUSIC ROOM, MONTGOMERY ARTS HOUSE, Busch Drive Malibu, California
Event: Pio
Pico State Park
Date: March 23, 11:00:00
AM
Description: La
Senora Members have been invited to join with Members of The History of LA to
experience the State Park honoring Pio Pico was the Governor of California
. El Ranchito, in Whittier is one of the few adobe buildings of the 1850s
still standing and in good repair. Pio Pico was an interesting man who,
while Governor, lived at the San Fernando Mission during the Mexican Era of
"Secularization". Near downtown, he also built what was
deemed the most extravagant and lavish hotel in Southern California.
Event: So. California Genealogical Society
Training
Date: April 5
Description: Many of our members attend the educational programs
by the SCGS every June. But here's a training session on April
14th. These helpful folks will answer all your queries and help you build
your family tree.
Event: Rancho Education Day - 4th Graders & Cemetery
Date: April 17
Description: This is the program that won the Governor’s Award for
Historic Conservation Education. Today is the annual 4th graders pilgrimage for
the students of Canyon, Marquez and St. Monica's to visit La Senora Research
Institute. At the Hacienda the students are introduced to the founders of
Rancho Boca de Santa Monica by direct descendent and historian, Ernest
Marquez. After a visit to the Rancho Era Chapel, where discussions of
life, death and religion on an 1800s rancho take place, the students visit the
1840s Pascual Marquez Family Cemetery (the sole extant private family cemetery
in Los Angeles County). The land in front of the Cemetery was brought
before the Cultural Heritage Commission in 2010 and, with the help of
hundreds of community volunteers, friends and rancho descendants, it received
Cultural Heritage Designation. Donations from neighbors, friends,
and rancho descendants allowed La Senora to purchase the land in
2011. A celebration of the creation of the garden entrance to the
Cemetery and the naming of the land "Santuario San Lorenzo" will take
place this coming weekend.
Event: Celebrating Santuario San Lorenzo Cactus
Garden
Date: April 20, 2:00:00 PM
Description: Join
the friends, neighbors, community leaders and rancho descendants whose efforts
and donations made it possible for La Senora to acquire and landmark the
sacred land lying between the Pascual Marquez Family Cemetery and San Lorenzo
Street. This is a celebration of all the contributions of time, energy,
prayer and funding that went into creating this meditative garden protecting
the 1840s cemetery of Rancho Boca de Santa Monica forever.
Event: The Last Pictures
Date: April 25, 07:15:00 PM
Description:
For many years, the Los Angeles Library Foundation has engaged in a celebrated
literary series of conversations, readings and performances with today's
brightest, curious and most talented minds of Los Angeles. Several Patron
Members of La Senora have been in the forefront of sponsoring the continuation
of these events. Those members invite current La Senora members to join
us for an unforgettable evening exploring what it is that we value enough to
send into the future.
Event: Center Stage Strings Annual Scholarship
Concert
Date: April 26, 07:30:00 PM
Description: One
of La Senora's favorite Colburn School faculty members is the highly talented
Danielle Belen who is also the co-founder of the Center Stage Strings and
its summer camp for young string musicians at Three Rivers. Its annual
scholarship concert attracts incomparable guest artists and is absolutely not
to be missed if you love classical music and the idea of supporting these young
prodigies.
Event: Youth Concert: Who Was Thelonious
Monk?
Date: May 4, 11:00:00 AM
Description: The
third of our Youth-Oriented concerts scheduled in La
Senora's 2013 Season under a collaborative invitation with the Broad
Stage, brings our members and their children (of all ages) an interactive
musical event. Jazz pianist Eric Reed takes young people on a
journey through history and back again to fire up a love of American music. Who is Thelonious Monk? introduces
audiences to a pianist/composer who was one of the unmatched geniuses of jazz.
His music contained dancing rhythms, dissonant harmonies and wild and fun
melodies that were even challenging for the musicians in his band. Everyone
will gain an enhanced understanding of what swing really is while learning
about one of the greatest musical artists of the 20th century.
Event: Cotsen
Institute 40th Anniversary
Date: May 4, 01:00:00 PM
Description: It's
been 40 years since Lloyd Cotsen made the gift to UCLA to create the Cotsen
Institute of Archeology. Do check out its Fowler Museum Archeological
Exhibitions on Open House Day from 1:00 - 4:p.m. La Senora Fellow Wendy Teeter
is the Curator of the Fowler Museum and welcomes inquiring minds of all ages to
the museum during Open House.
Event: Annual West Los Angeles Symphony 2013
Date: May 5, 07:00:00 PM
Description: La
Senora's collaborative music program announces the annual West Los Angeles
Symphony at UCLA's Royce Hall. This year's featured soloist will be the Los
Angeles Philharmonic cellist, Ben Hong, performing the Hayden Cello
Concerto No. 1 in C Major. Mr. Hong was technical advisor and the
featured soloist on the soundtrack for the DreamWorks movie: "The
Soloist". Soprano Hae Ji Chang, who recently made her Carnegie
Hall debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will sing Mozart's glorious Exsultate
Jubilate. The 2013 Symphony is proud to welcome back esteemed guest
conductor, Maestro Benjamin Wallfisch, internationally known for his classical
conduction, and here at home know as one of the Hollywood music industry's
brightest stars.
Event: So. Cal Genealogy Jamboree 2013
Date: June 7-9
Description: It's
time again for the genealogy jamboree. This annual event
offers beginners to experts a real treat. La Senora does not attend
"as a group"; our members are at different 'knowledge levels' and
sign up for different events on different days. Some just attend the
bazaar outside the educational seminars. You can get your DNA testing
kits here too.
Event: Tribute to Jose Mojica: Pelleas y
Melisande
Date: July 12, 7:00:00 PM
Description: Join
us for a gala evening as the award-winning ensemble "Trio
Celeste" let's us spotlight Tenor Jose Mojica (whose first
starring opera role was in Debussy's opera at the Chicago Met singing Pelleas
to Mary Garden's Melasinde). Trio Celeste is rapidly distinguishing itself
as one of the most exciting young piano trio ensembles in the
country. And as a special treat for those of you who were astonished at the "voice" of the 1742
Guarnari del Jesu in our 2007 Season, it is with pleasure that we tell you the
Trio's violinist, Iryna Krechkovsky, performs on the 1689 Baumgartner
Stradivarius violin on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts Music. The Pre-Concert
Talk will explore the interesting differences between Claude Debussy's and
Gabriel Faure's interpretations of the French playwrite Maurice
Maeterlinck's work. This will be the highlight of our 2013 Chamber
Music Season.
Event: iPalpiti Orchestra at Disney Hall
Date: July 27
Description: Here is the Festival calendar with ticketing and program
information. iPalpiti is a sponsor of the Beverly Hills Auditions
collaboration of chamber music venues. As part of that consortium,
La Senora draws many of its concert performers from the selected winners.
The Finale of the Festival is a joyous event each Season.
Event: Saving a Sacred Rancho: In the Canyon
Date: August 3
Description: Join us Saturday afternoon at the Santa Monica Public
Library for a wonderful look at how a community
rallied to save a sacred site in Santa Monica Canyon. Without
the community support -- hundreds of letters and personal appearances at
hearings --- impassioned remarks to the Cultural Heritage Commission -- an
impressive team of lawyers led by our own Colleen McAndrews Wood (La Senora
Board member) and Thomas Larmore -- with the unmitigated support of
Councilman Rosendahl and his Westside legal counsel Norm Kulla -- without all
of them, we could not have saved the land in front of the 1840s cemetery which
will now provide access for posterity. And without Art Barron's
documentary, we could not show you this example of a 'community on the move'.
Do join us to celebrate the efforts and the accomplishments of all these
people.
Event: The Handsome Frog - a Musical Adventure
for Children
Date:
August 6, 04:00:00 PM
Description: La
Senora's musical programming is achieved in collaboration with noteworthy
musical partners throughout the city. Of special interest to us during
this 2013 Season has been our opportunity for increased classical
programming for youth. We're happy to publicize that a 4th, and
concluding, youth chamber music performance will be an original work
commissioned by affiliate L.A. Music
Salon and performed by The
Vientos Trio. The Handsome Frog will be performed at the nearby Westwood Library and is free of charge.
Event: Cowboys of
the Palisades
Date: August 15, 07:00:00 PM
Description: La
Senora has another fun collaborative event scheduled with the Pacific Palisades
Historical Society. If you ever watched "Westerns" then you
need to come see and hear the stories of how the concept developed in
California. Did you know that the first time a Western was shot outdoors
was at Inceville? And did you know that this was the very first Western
that was shot west of Chicago? You are in for a treat. Eric does
his research and fields questions like the pro he is.
Event: Junipero Serra: Legacies of the
California Mission
Date: August 16
Description: This Members Exclusive Exhibition Preview of the Huntington
Exhibit is set to coincide with the 300th Anniversary of Padre Junipero Serra's
birth. While this exhibition will become open to the Public and will run until January
2014, this Preview Event will provide a closer look at the exhibition with
museum staff on hand to help us understand the significance of the items. Francisco
Reyes, the first ancestor of the Marquez/Reyes families of Rancho Boca de Santa
Monica, came to California and was attached to Padre Serra in the early 1700s.
His marriage investigation is signed by Serra.
Event: Tango Concert
Summer 2013
Date: August 24, 06:30:00 PM
Description: An invitation to an historic hacienda in Santa Monica
Canyon. After the Supper in the Gardens, adjourn with your glass
of wine into the Mojica Music Salon to listen as the classicists
developed the rhythms and idioms of the Soul of Tango, performed
so passionately by our classically trained ensemble. After the Concert,
Dessert and Coffees in the Gardens, then perhaps to dance within the
bougainvillea draped loggia, or –more romantically --to dance in the
moonlit gardens while our Tango musicians continue with modern tangos. Following
the Classical Tango Concert, the 90-year-old Music Salon of Mexican
Opera Star Jose Mojica will convert to a cabaret for dancing tango -- still
featuring our Tiempo Tango Musicians now performing traditional Milonga
tangos.
Event: Guachos Coming to the Rancho Cordillero del Norte
Date: September 29, 4:00:00 PM
Description: Elisabeth Waldo, noted Mesoamerican
ethnomusicologist has invited La Senora members (and guests) to the first of
this Season's musical events at Rancho Cordillero del Norte. Though not
on our Westside, a trip to the Rancho teatro is a notable event. (Carpooling
suggested.)
Please note that this is an afternoon event with tapas and wine after the
concert in the Rancho theater. Elisabeth is a La Senora Academic
Fellow and this concert is one of her numerous Fellowship Projects.
Event: Life and Death on a Mexican Rancho
Date: October 18, 9:00:00 AM
Description: In
the 6thyear of the innovative education program that won La Senora
and the Cotsen Institute the Governor's Award for Historic Preservation
education, we are adding a Fall program for local high school students who will
meet at the Mojica Hacienda to learn about life on an 1839 Mexican
Rancho. After visiting with La Senora's Historian, a direct descendant of
the Rancho grantees, who will introduce them to Life on a Mexican Rancho, their
visit to the Rancho Chapel will lend the stories of death and burials at
distant outposts in the 1800s. In the theater, students will see how
archaeologists used noninvasive ground penetrating radar to discover the
locations of unmarked burials in the historic Rancho Cemetery before they move
to the Cemetery itself to view the final resting places of the people
they've been learning about.
Event: Rancho Days Fiesta
Date: October 20
Description: An afternoon of Mexican Traditional
activities for the whole family. Learn the rich history of Rancho Boca de Santa
Monica and Life on an 1839 Mexican Land
Grant. Featuring Storytelling
by Rancho Descendants. Join in the dancing, crafts & games in
the spirit of the Mexican ‘Roundup’ Fiestas. The menu includes the Rancho favorite roasted goat plus fresh
tortilla lessons! During the Rancho Era, the language
spoken was Spanish, so please invite your Spanish speaking friends. This Fiesta
is the final event of the Rancho Era Education Weekend October 18-20, 2013
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