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Holiday Look In home tour
This enormously popular event has become an anticipated community celebration, offering visitors a chance to view four distinctive homes in the Pasadena area, decorated for the holiday season by prominent floral designers. This year’s designers include Drew Domenghini,
Mary Falkingham, Jacob Maarse and
Silver Birches.
Tantalizing to elegant, inventive to endearing, the annual Holiday Look In home tour delivers visual delights and this year will be no exception.
Proceeds from this event are used to support the Pasadena Symphony’s annual concert series as well as many educational outreach and community engagement programs like the Pasadena Youth Symphony Orchestra. PYSO has been training tomorrow’s classical musicians since 1972. Under the direction of Music Director, Jack Taylor, this exceptional ensemble is comprised of talented middle school students from grades six through nine. These committed young people receive advanced instruction and challenging music opportunities through a rigorous program that emphasizes ensemble playing and includes a minimum of three concerts a year.
The Women’s Committee
Founded in 1957, the Women’s Committee of The Pasadena Symphony Association is a dedicated group of volunteers who celebrate and support the musicians of the Pasadena Symphony Association through the annual Holiday Look In. Over the past 43 years the Women’s Committee has donated over $3 million to the Pasadena Symphony Association. This past season the Women’s Committee was pleased to donate $100,000 in proceeds from its 2010 Holiday Look In home tour.
If you cannot attend the event but would like to make a donation please click the Donate button below.
Pasadena Symphony Association
The Pasadena Symphony Association was founded in 1928 by Conductor
Reginald Bland. Originally named the Pasadena Civic Orchestra, its first
members were mostly volunteer musicians, many of whom were students of
Bland. The annual operating budget was a mere $3,500, which was funded
entirely by the City of Pasadena.
Over the past 80 years, the Pasadena Symphony has artistically matured into one of the top performing symphonic ensembles in southern California, comprised of the most gifted and sought after musicians from the motion picture film industry.
In the fall of 2007, the Pasadena Symphony incorporated the Pasadena POPS into its Association under the new name Pasadena Symphony and POPS. This merger created an expanded Classics and POPS series providing the community with a full spectrum of live symphonic concerts year-round.
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