This page lists past 2023 concerts. Check out our schedule of CURRENT 2023 FREE EVENTS here!
We had a fabulous last concert, with more than 200 people attending, in the 2023 Season of our FREE Concert Series @ Westwood Library, featuring one of L.A.’s hottest swing bands, THE PEPPER MOONS, to Swing Through the Holidays!
THE PEPPER MOONS bring us the glamorous sounds of the Swing Era, including such favorites as Ain’t Misbehavin’, All of Me and Fly Me to the Moon, plus some jingle jazz swing tunes.
Put on your dancing shoes! We’ll have a dance floor for this festive year-end holiday musical celebration! Fun for the whole family!
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2023
2:30 pm
@ Westwood Library
1246 Glendon Ave., LA 90024
Tel: 310-474-1739
For ADA accommodations, please call 213-228-7430 at least 72 hours prior to the event.
JUNE 10: XAVIER PRADO – Chilean tenor Xavier Prado presents a fascinating program titled Les poèts (The Poets), featuring works related to important poetic figures in art song, as well as famous arias from operas where the tenor is either a fictional or a real poet. Mr. Prado will be accompanied by pianist Catherine Miller. Co-sponsored by THE OPERA BUFFS.
AUGUST 12: PHYLLIS PAN – Pianist Phyllis Pan, in the doctoral piano performance program at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, brings us a fabulous program titled The Elements: Earth, Air, Fire & Water, with works that reference each element, such as Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz No. 1.
SEPTEMBER 9: JULIA MARIA JOHNSON – Soprano Julia Maria Johnson leads us on a musical journey in her entertaining program titled Cabaret Tunes: Old & New, including premieres by pianist and composer John-Micah Braswell who will accompanying Ms. Johnson on piano. Co-sponsored by THE OPERA BUFFS.
NOVEMBER 4 : DOUGLAS MASEK – Internationally renowned saxophonist Douglas Masek invites us to a program titled Saxvoir Faire, with a mélange of styles encompassing the sound spectrum of the soprano and alto saxophone. He will be accompanied by pianist James Lent. (Note: this is a date change to the first Saturday in November, due to library closure on Veterans Day, Nov. 11).
On Sunday, October 8, 2023, we were excited to welcome back the Library’s beloved Quartet in Residence, the FIATO QUARTET, which was celebrating its 10th year as our Quartet in Residence! We’ll be upstairs on a Sunday afternoon when the Library is not open for regular business.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2023
2:30 PM
@ Westwood Library
1246 Glendon Ave., L.A. 90024, 310-474-1739
Fiato brought us the first and the last string quartet from two masters:
Beethoven – String Quartet No. 1, Op. 18, No. 1
Mendelssohn – String Quartet No. 6, Op. 80
Our popular series of free concerts at Westwood Library continued in 2023 with our annual INDEPENDENCE DAY CONCERT featuring the LA Police Band Ensemble, with a fabulous program of American popular music and patriotic favorites! Fun for the whole family!!
DATE: Sunday, July 2, 2023
TIME: 2:30 pm
PLACE: Westwood Library, 1246 Glendon Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024, 310-474-1739. (For For ADA accommodations, please call 213-228-7430 at least 72 hours prior to the event.)
Download the flyer for the Independence Day Concert here.
We were very excited to announce the 2023 launch of a new free informal monthly concert series at Westwood Library called “SECOND SATURDAYS” — in addition to our signature Sunday concerts at the library.
Second Saturday Concerts take place upstairs in the alcove by the balcony while the library is open for regular business. The first four concerts (February through May) started at 3:30 p.m., but the last four (June through November) will start at 3 p.m. Concerts last approximately 90 minutes.
This is a great opportunity to introduce your kids to live classical music and musicians in the casual, safe, familiar setting of our local library.
We had a stellar line-up to kick off our exciting new series!!
DOWNLOAD THE FEBRUARY-MAY FLYER HERE
FEBRUARY 11, 2023: THE BELROSE DUO – We are honored to welcome two very special guests to open our new series: cellist David Garrett from the L.A. Philharmonic, and concert pianist Junko Ueno Garrett of the piano faculty at Occidental College.Their program, titled Time Traveling with Cello and Piano, spans the eras from Bach and Mozart, to Schumann, Walton and Copland—along with fascinating anecdotes from the world of music.
MARCH 11, 2023: ZAREBSKI PIANO DUO – Coming to us from Poland, pianists Piotr Rozanski and Grzegorz Mania will delight us with a piano four-hands program titled From the Salons of Vienna, Berlin and Warsaw, with sprightly dances and lush waltzes from composers Paderewski, Moszkowski, Friedman, Zelenski, Godowski and Zarebski.
APRIL 8, 2023: DAVID YANG – Pianist in the graduate program at the USC Thornton School of Music, brings us Mozart’s elegant Sonata in F major, KV 332, and Chopin’s monumental Sonata in B minor, Op. 58.
MAY 13, 2023: LEVY & LIM – Violinist Phillip Levy and pianist Tae Yeon Lim 
bring us a program of popular, lighter classics for violin and piano, including works by Beethoven, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky and Kreisler.
DOWNLOAD THE FEBRUARY-MAY FLYER HERE
