The Palisades Symphony, which is currently without a home, is providing a an outdoor concert in Koreatown at 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 29. The concert “Best of Broadway: Decade by Decade,” will be held at 615 South La Fayette Park Place in Los Angeles. Bring a chair, blanket and snacks and enjoy the free concert (donations are welcome).
Concert goers are invited to travel back through 130 years of show-stopping Broadway hits as the symphony and guest vocalists perform Sousa’s El Capitan and Gershwin’s The Man I Love to Rodgers & Hammerstein’s If I Loved You, Bernstein’s West Side Story, and ABBA’s Mamma Mia! Soloists include Margaryta Kuzina (soprano), Mtthew Peterson (baritone), Caroline Turner (child soloist).
Maxim Kuzin is the conductor of the Palisades Symphony and he will be joined by guest conductor Andrew Karatay. The show has been curated by Broadway icon Michael Feinstein.
The show is advertised as “a free, outdoor musical time-machine—perfect for families, theatre lovers, and anyone who can’t resist a great tune!”
(Editor’s note: It would be great if this concert could also find a venue on the Westside.)