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| | Tragedies and Triumphs
Friday & Saturday, March 1 & 2, 2019, 8:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Coldwell Banker Sellers Realty
Embark on an evening of high drama, moving from despair to elation. The concert opens with Brahms’ dark, uncompromising commentary on the inherent tragedy of human life. His themes surge and spin in a tempest of emotion. Up-and-coming soprano Clara Lisle follows, offering an enchanting mix of opera favorites, some sweetly charming and others imbued with intense longing. Rimsky-Korsakov’s exuberant and virtuosic Capriccio Espagnol concludes the evening’s performance.
Our free "Musical Notes" lecture begins at 7 p.m. each concert night. | |
| | Inventive Voices
Friday & Saturday, April 12 & 13, 2019, 8:00 p.m.
Sponsored by McCrea Nissan Subaru
Shostakovich, Mussorgsky and Beethoven were all game-changing composers who revolutionized the world of classical music and your concert experience this evening will highlight that revolution. It will also put the spotlight on local, emerging talents who have won this season’s Young Artist Competition. You will hear the Festive Overture by Shostakovich, a vivacious and thoroughly Russian celebratory work that alternates between grandiose, lyrical and playful. Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain was one of the first tone poems written by a Russian composer and is based on the legend of a witches sabbath on St. John’s Eve. The evening closes with Ludwig van Beethoven’s first foray into the symphonic form, a form he eventually changed so dramatically that it would seem as if he invented it.
Our free "Musical Notes" lecture begins at 7 p.m. each concert night. | |
| | Memorable Melodies
Friday & Saturday, May 17 & 18, 2019, 8:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Coast Central Credit Union
The final concert of the season will begin with celebrated composer Libby Larsen’s Deep Summer Music, a work beautifully evocative of the coming season. The elegant yet exciting Variations on a Rococo Theme Op. 33 by Tchaikovsky will showcase the talent of the symphony’s new principal cellist, Garrick Woods. The evening and the season closes with Tchaikovsky’s powerful and majestic Symphony No. 5 with unforgettably beautiful and poignant themes that will haunt you long after you leave the theater.
Our free "Musical Notes" lecture begins at 7 p.m. each concert night. | |