Hidden Valley Music Seminars
Come Together, Change the World, Friday May 9, Saturday May 10, 8pm; Sunday May 11, 3pm.
Hidden Valley, an Institute of the Performing Arts is nestled in the glorious, scenic Carmel Valley just ten miles from the internationally famous Monterey/Carmel area, Hidden Valley is an exciting arts training center providing young talents from around the world with performance and study opportunities of excellence. Wright Hall is our recently remodeled 20 room, single story, on-campus residence hall. Rooms are designed for double occupancy and each has a private bath. The charming, rustic 10-acre campus includes a 300-seat theatre, a fireside room, a dance studio, and numerous decks and patios. Hidden Valley is accessible by bus, plane, and train.
Christmas at the Rancho
A California Christmas
Carmel Mission Basilica, Saturday, December 1, 2007, 8pm
The Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo (originally La Misión San Carlos Borromeo del Río Carmelo) was first established in Monterey, California on June 3, 1770, the second of the 21 California missions. The Mission was named for Saint Charles Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan, Italy.
The following year, the Mission moved to its present location near the town of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, in what was the Third Military District; the original site continued to operate as a chapel and later became the Cathedral of San Carlos Borroméo. "Mission Carmel," as it came to be known, was Father Junípero Serra's favorite, and being close to Monterey (the capital of Alta California) became his headquarters. When he died on August 28, 1784 he was buried on the Mission grounds.
The Golden State Theatre
The Monterey Peninsula Choral Society has always loved performing at The Carmel Mission Basilica as we will again this year. However, we also feel that fate smiled on the Central Coast (and a long –suffering group of volunteers) last year, when Warren Dewey sold his sound engineering business (that served groups such as Boston and KISS) in Los Angeles and moved to Monterey to fulfill his ambition of owning and renovating a vintage movie theater.
In 2004 Dewey purchased The Golden State Theater on Alvarado Street in Monterey from Regal Entertainment Group and has restored the theatre to a thriving performing arts center. The upstairs theatres are gone; the auditorium’s ground floor has been re-floored and reseated; stenciled paintings have been restored; new projectors are in place; a new, larger movie screen has been installed and flown so the stage can be used for live performances; and the list goes on and on.
When he bought the Golden State Theatre in October 2004, it was anything but glamorous. The seats were torn and lumpy, the projection room a shambles, and the balcony was walled into two cramped theaters.
Now The Golden State boasts movies, performances by The Monterey Symphony, The Monterey Opera and concert with its wonderfully restored Wurlitzer Organ. As well, young people, like those in our Youth Chorus, can see what the Golden Age of Theater was really like.
The Monterey Choral Society is proud to perform in The Golden State Theatre May 6th at 4 & 8pm, with a performance by the Youth Chorus at 2pm. We are thrilled to be able to take advantage of such beautiful space.
Picture & story courtesy, in part, to The Golden State Theatre
Monterey Institute of International Studies
Designed as the new faculty offices for this international school, the McCone Center is a complete remodel of the former Monterey Herald Newspaper into an administrative center. The exterior was taken from a "1950's modern" design to a Monterey style, reflective of its historic location next to Colton Hall on Pacific Street.
Three stories totaling 40,000 S.F. include offices for 60 faculty members, classrooms and a ground floor punctuated by a spectacular skylit atrium. The former press bay was transformed into a 300-seat auditorium with state of the art translation facilities for five different languages.
The design won a 1994 Citation Award from the American Institute of Architects, Monterey Bay Chapter.
