Ambassador Embarks on Its 20th Season : Music: The 1994-95 anniversary program in Pasadena will include more than 100 artists and ensembles.

For its 20th consecutive concert year in Pasadena’s Ambassador Auditorium, Ambassador Performing Arts will present more than 100 artists and ensembles during the season 1994-95, opening with a recital by the distinguished English pianist Moura Lympany Oct. 5.

That performance by the 77-year-old concert veteran also opens the perennially popular piano series, this season including recitals by Michael Kieran Harvey (one of the winners of the 1993 Ivo Pogorelich International Competition, held at Ambassador), Valery Kuleshov (Feb. 15), Alicia de Larrocha (March 2) and Peter Serkin (March 15).

There are 31 series available on season subscription. Appearing on Stars of Opera will be tenor Fernando de la Mora (Oct. 26), sopranos Galina Gorchakova (Nov. 12) and Ruth Ann Swenson (Feb. 8), and baritone Thomas Hampson (March 4).

Singers on the Great Performers series are soprano Mirella Freni and her husband, basso Nicolai Ghiaurov (March 30).

Also appearing on the Great Performers series is the Israel Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Shlomo Mintz (Oct. 12), violinist Pamela Frank with cellist Yo-Yo Ma (Feb. 22), cellist Mstislav Rostropovich (March 23), flutist James Galway (Feb. 9), and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, conducted by Andre Previn (April 12).

Other projected high points of the 20th anniversary season:

The Guarneri String Quartet (Oct. 19); the Jim Cullum Jazz Band (Oct. 30); Preservation Hall Jazz Band (March 26); Borodin Quartet (Nov. 10); Mel Torme and Trio (Jan. 12); the King’s Singers (March 9); Jose Molina Bailes Espanoles (March 12); Juilliard Quartet (Feb. 4); the Flying Karamazov Brothers (Feb. 18 and 19); Michael Martin Murphey/John McEuen (Oct. 22); Ricky Skaggs (Nov. 9); Stanley Turrentine All-Star Quartet (Oct. 6); Milt Jackson Quartet/Ernestine Anderson (Feb. 25); the Gene Harris Quartet & Gene Harris All-Star Band (Feb. 11); Sonny Rollins (May 4, 1995), and pianists Sergio Daniel Tiempo (Oct. 17) and Graham Scott (Jan. 30).

In addition, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra will again appear at the Pasadena facility, in seven performances, beginning Nov. 13.

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