 | This article reads like a press release or a news article and may be largely based on routine coverage. (February 2023) |
| Location | Los Angeles, United States |
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| Start date | 1939 |
| Website | www |
Monday Evening Concerts (MEC) is the world's longest-running series devoted to contemporary classical music. The concert series, based in Los Angeles, was originally envisioned as a forum for displaced European emigrés and Hollywood studio musicians. MEC has presented contemporary concerts continuously since.[1][2]
- ^ Crawford, Dorothy L. (1995). Evenings on and off the Roof: Pioneering Concerts in Los Angeles, 1939-1973. Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press. pp. 11–69. ISBN 0-520-08891-3.
- ^ Crawford, Dorothy L. (2009). A Windfall of Musicians Hitler's émigrés and Exiles in Southern California. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12734-8.