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We're well into spooky season, and hopefully this year's pumpkin-themed goodies are treating you well as the weather finally shifts. This week includes some choice offerings, including an extra-seasonal presentation of the beloved G&B Ruddigore in Ventura County (available streaming this weekend!), Russell Thomas is doing a recital on Saturday in the IE, and our own Christina Whitten Thomas is leading a choral concert/Evensong on Sunday that is loaded with Listers and works by two other local composers -- Matthew Brown, and a world premiere from Julian Van Eyken. LACO starts their season with three concerts in three locations that all include powerful baritone Thomas Bauer. Finally, don't miss the Wednesday afternoon public masterclass with the amazing Patti Austin at USC. Here are the details on these and more... happy listening!

Vocal-related events in Southern California

October 18

Class clashes and a family curse lead Robin and Rose into the topsy-turvy ghostly and ghastly world of Gilbert and Sullivan in Ruddigore. Great fun for the season. Performs October 11 - October 20.

October 19

The Anna H. Wang Concert Series and La Sierra University Music will present renowned tenor and Los Angeles Opera’s Artist-in-Residence Russell Thomas with pianist Lucas Nogara, Sat., Oct. 19 at 7 p.m., Hole Memorial Auditorium. Pre-concert lecture at 6 p.m. with 91.5FM KUSC’s Brian Lauritzen Pre-concert performance at 6:30 p.m. by Loma Linda Academy’s Pro Musica.

The Anna H. Wang Concert Series and La Sierra University Music will present renowned tenor and Los Angeles Opera’s Artist-in-Residence Russell Thomas with pianist Lucas Nogara, Sat., Oct. 19 at 7 p.m., Hole Memorial Auditorium. Pre-concert lecture at 6 p.m. with 91.5FM KUSC’s Brian Lauritzen Pre-concert performance at 6:30 p.m. by Loma Linda Academy’s Pro Musica.

October 20

The Lighted Window Festival Choir will present their October Evensong, a candlelit service of glorious and contemplative music for choir and organ.

Music by Howells, Hildegard von Bingen, Purcell, Florence Price, Rossini, Matthew Brown, Julian van Eyken, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, and Pachebel.

Join us at up-scale lounge and piano bar, The Stowaway in DTLA for this one of a kind, immersive performance experience, in our upcoming “Fright Festival,” featuring opera's most ghastly ghouls, ghosts, and goblins! Come in costume and you may even be wondering who is a guest and who is a performer!

October 21

October 23

In this public masterclass, legendary vocalist Patti Austin will share her unparalleled expertise, insights, and techniques from her early work with jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald to her sustained multi-decade work with Quincy Jones to her session singing for legends like Michael Jackson and Aretha Franklin to her Oscar-nominated chart-topping solo and duet hits across genres like jazz, soul, and R&B. Since her breakthrough in the mid-’70s, Austin has been a mainstay on the Billboard charts with 19 solo albums to her credit and performances of her hit songs on both the Grammys and the Oscars.

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