Free GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS 8/5/26

Free Admission    

GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS             

Every First & Third Wednesday at 12:10-12:40 pm,  

has returned to live performances

in the Sanctuary of Glendale City Church!

 

RELAX DURING YOUR LUNCH HOUR WITH LIVE MUSIC

On Wednesday AUGUST 5, 2026 

at 12:10 -12:40 pm PT

the Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts program

will be performed live in the Sanctuary of Glendale City Church.  

 610 E. California Ave Glendale, CA 91206

 

PARKING INFO:

https://glendalecitychurch.org/location

 

Glendale Noon Concerts 

Wednesday AUGUST 5, 2026 at 12:10-12:40 pm PT 

JAMES LENT

Solo Piano Recital

A program celebrating the 250th anniversary of America

Maple Leaf Rag- Scott Joplin

No. 3 from Four Piano Blues- Aaron Copland

Bumbleboogie- Jack Fina

Prelude No. 1 - George Gershwin 

Fugue from Piano Sonata, Op. 26- Samuel Barber

Variations on the Pink Panther- Lent/Mancini

Rhapsody in Blue- George Gershwin

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STILL AVAILABLE! Watch

previous Glendale Noon Concerts streamed concerts

(April 2020-February 1, 2023):

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oAfaPgGGMw&list=PLms1LJpnTpJzK7Yf6ryh2zyFMlkl7qC2z

Read about the previous programs:   

http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

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Preview of the next concert:

AUGUST 19, 2026 at 12:10 pm PT

JACQUELINE SUZUKI- violin

BRENDAN WHITE- piano

Wieniawski & Beethoven 

ARTIST BIO:

https://www.jameslent.com 

 

Pianist James Lent is a lecturer and coordinator of Collaborative Piano at UCLA. Lent completed his DMA at the Yale School of Music under teachers Boris Berman, Claude Frank and Peter Frankl. He made his Alabama Symphony debut to critical acclaim performing Rachmaninoff’s “Concerto No. 2” on 24 hours notice to replace Andre Watts and also performed with the Torrance Symphony, Vancouver Symphony and the Houston Symphony, among others, and as solo recitalist at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Germany, for the National Chopin Foundation in Miami, at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where he premiered a new work written for him by American composer Frederic Rzewski.

His numerous awards include prizes in the New York Concert Artists Guild International Competition, the National Chopin Competition, the Washington International Piano Competition at the Kennedy Center, among others. He was a fellowship recipient at the Aspen Music Festival, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal. Lent also teaches at AMDA (American Musical and Dramatic Academy) as collaborative pianist, vocal coach and musical director.