OCTOBER 19, 2019

Magnificent Mozart

Junko Ueno Garrett, piano soloist

First United Methodist Church’s Chancel Choir will be joined by the choirs of First Congregational Church, First United Methodist Church of Glendale and Chorale Bel Canto

The Third@First Chamber Orchestra
Gregory Norton, conductor

Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat, K. 271
Requiem, K. 626

The season opens with the concerto that pianist Alfred Brendel called “one of the greatest wonders of the world.” Mozart’s most beloved choral work follows, the Requiem, performed in memory of Stephen Gothold, First UMC’s music director from 1996 to 2013.

November 16, 2019

Piano Four Hands •
From Home Entertainment to Concert Hall

Stephen Pierce and Junko Ueno Garrett, pianists

Mozart: Sonata, K. 521
Schubert: Deutscher mit zwei Trios und zwei Ländler, D. 618
Schubert: No. 1 from Deux Marches Caractéristique, D. 886
Schumann: Bilder aus Osten, Op. 66
Poulenc: Sonate
Barber: Selections from Souvenirs 

Piano duets began as a way to enjoy music at home before recorded music made that experience common. Later, piano duets made their way into the concert hall as composers created works intended to exploit the possibilities of four hands playing one piano. This program invites you to experience both: arrangements of non-piano music and pieces especially created for piano duet.

December 21, 2019

Christmas Joy Concert

This annual holiday concert features choirs of all ages, the Modern Brass Quintet, handbells, the church’s majestic pipe organ and audience carols. Alongside a variety of carols old and new will be the premiere of a new carol medley by Aaron Shows, First UMC’s organist.

January 18, 2020

Music in Paris

The Belrose Duo
David Garrett, cellist and Junko Ueno Garrett, pianist

Presented in collaboration with Alliance Française de Pasadena

Chopin: Sonata, Op. 65
Debussy: Sonate
Ravel: Habanera
selections by Fauré.

This popular duo offers their annual concert with repertoire focused on the “City of Lights,” Paris. This city has been a center of arts for many centuries and the performers will discuss the ways that it has influenced the composers’ lives and music. 

February 15, 2020

Stories in Music

JUNKO UENO GARRETT, PIANIST

PROGRAM
J. S. Bach: Toccata from Partita No. 6
Schumann: Papillon Op. 2
Ginastera: Danzas Argentinas
Granados: Ochos valses poeticos
Chopin: Fantasie Op. 49

While music is the most abstract of arts, it also is capable of relating a narrative.  Come explore how this possibility has been realized by composers over the centuries, with insights from the performer about how this is accomplished in each piece.