About Us
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
Tommy Farmer, Dolores Kroop of Padua, Jacob Maarse and Leonora
Moss.
Tantalizing to elegant, inventive to endearing, the annual Holiday Look In home tour delivers visual delights and this year will be no exception. Of
course, the entire event is a celebration of music! Musicians play in the homes
and at our Boutique.
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 throughout southern California. Over its 42 years the event has raised over $2.5 million for the Pasadena Symphony Association. Recognized by the American Symphony Orchestra League as a model fundraiser the highly successful Holiday Look In home tour has recently been featured in the League of American Orchestras Gold Book.
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 Pasadena Symphony
through fundraising events. Since 1968 the Committee’s major fundraising
effort has been the Holiday Look In home tour held annually on the first weekend
in December.
This past season the Women’s Committee was pleased to donate $90,000 in proceeds from its 2008 Holiday Look In home tour. The donation was ironically presented at the beginning of a concert that was originally cancelled due to the Symphony’s financial crisis. During these challenging and uncertain times we were delighted to have exceeded our fundraising expectations. Please join us this year and help one of Pasadena’s musical institutions.
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
