Monday Evening Concerts

Monday Evening Concerts
LocationLos Angeles, United States
Start date1939; 85 years ago (1939)
Websitewww.mondayeveningconcerts.org

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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.