Ambassador Season Announced : Music: The Pasadena auditorium’s 1992-93 series includes dance events at the Pasadena Civic.

More than 100 soloists, ensembles and entertainment attractions--including flutist James Galway; pianists Ivo Pogorelich, Andre Watts and Dave Brubeck; singers Lucia Popp, Jerry Hadley, Harolyn Blackwell and Sherrill Milnes; mime Marcel Marceau; the Juilliard Quartet and the Saint Louis Symphony--have been engaged for the 1992-93 season of Ambassador Foundation, in performances to be given at both Ambassador Auditorium and Civic Auditorium in Pasadena.

This 18th Ambassador subscription season begins with the first of eight events on the Big Band Era series, an appearance by singer Kay Starr and Les Brown and His Band of Renown. Dave Brubeck and his quartet open the six-concert jazz series, the Sounds of Genius, Sept. 24.

Thirty-three of the 34 series will be given in Ambassador Auditorium; the other one, the Pasadena Civic Pops series, will take place in the larger Pasadena Civic Auditorium. That four-event series presents Carol Channing and Chita Rivera in “Two Ladies of Broadway” (Oct. 31), Ballet Folclorico Nacional de Mexico (Jan. 17), Don Cossack Song and Dance Company (Feb. 13) and Krasnayarsk Siberian Dance Company (March 14).

On the Great Performers series will be soprano Lucia Popp and tenor Peter Seiffert (Dec. 6), the Saint Louis Symphony, conducted by Leonard Slatkin (Feb. 20), flutist James Galway and guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita, violinist Elmar Oliveira and pianist Horacio Gutierrez (March 24), pianist Ivo Pogorelich (April 14) and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, led by Iona Brown (April 22, 1993).

The Orchestras series lists three concerts: the Vancouver Symphony, conducted by Sergiu Comissiona (Sept. 30); the Russian National Orchestra, led by Mikhail Pletniev (Jan. 7), and the Saint Louis Symphony (Feb. 21).

Appearances by five Metropolitan Opera singers, all Americans, comprise the Stars of Opera series. The recitalists are soprano Aprile Millo (Oct. 31), tenor Gary Lakes (Jan. 16), soprano Harolyn Blackwell (Feb. 27), tenor Jerry Hadley (March 31) and baritone Sherrill Milnes (May 15, 1993).

The Chamber Music Series begins Nov. 1 with an appearance by the London Brass, and continues with Camerata Musica of Berlin (Jan. 14), the Juilliard Quartet (March 17) and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, led by Iona Brown, with guitarist Christopher Parkening (April 24, 1993).

Eight recitalists make up the Piano Series, beginning with Yevgeny Mogilevsky (Oct. 29), and then offering Jean-Philippe Collard (Nov. 11), Horacio Gutierrez (Dec. 10), Andre Watts (Jan. 26), Elisso Bolkvadze (Feb. 4), Rudolf Buchbinder (March 11), Ivo Pogorelich (April 15) and the 1993 Van Cliburn Competition winner (June 17, 1993).

Ambassador Auditorium’s resident instrumental ensemble, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, will give 18 performances of 13 different programs during the season, beginning Oct. 24, when incoming music director Christof Perick leads a program scheduled to include the world premiere of Mel Powell’s “Settings for Small Orchestra.”

The Ambassador Pops series will include eight attractions: Shields & Yarnell (Nov. 21), Marcel Marceau (Nov. 26), Moscow Boys Choir (Jan. 21), the King’s Singers (Jan. 23), American Ballroom Theatre (Feb. 11), Bolcom & Morris (March 13), the Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers (April 21, 1993) and Glenn Yarbrough & the Limeliters (May 26, 1993).

For a season brochure: (818) 304-6166.