Pasadena Symphony Plays Rachmaninoff on March 24
The Pasadena Symphony continues its 90th season on Saturday, March 24, with Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini” at Ambassador Auditorium with performances at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Music Director David Lockington will open with Alexander Miller’s contemporary overture “Scher” and close with “Enigma Variations of Elgar.” The program centers around a classic Rachmaninoff melody, performed by pianist Andrew von Oeyen. Continue reading “Pasadena Symphony Plays Rachmaninoff on March 24”
Pasadena Symphony Plays Rachmaninoff March 24
The Pasadena Symphony continues its 90th season on Saturday, March 24, with Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini” at Ambassador Auditorium with performances at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Music Director David Lockington will open with Alexander Miller’s contemporary overture “Scher” and close with “Enigma Variations of Elgar.” The program centers around a classic Rachmaninoff melody, performed by pianist Andrew von Oeyen.
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Women’s Committee Presents $150K to Pasadena Symphony
Symphony to Play Stravinsky’s ‘Firebird Suite’
Music Director David Lockington returns to the podium on Saturday, Feb. 17, for Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite” at Ambassador Auditorium with performances at 2 and 8 p.m. The Pasadena Symphony’s ode to romance arrives just in time to celebrate Valentine’s Day. The February concert will also feature Dvorák’s tribute to a long-lost love, his rapturous Cello Concerto, and a world premiere Pasadena Symphony commission by up-and-coming Pasadena composer Dale Trumbore titled “Infinitely and Without Apology.”
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Symphony to Play Global Baroque
The Pasadena Symphony and principal guest conductor Nicholas McGegan presents “Baroque Around the World,” on Saturday, Jan. 20, at Ambassador Auditorium.
Highly regarded as “one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation” (London Independent), the two-time Grammy nominee will jump-start the new year with his performance.
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Symphony to Play Global Baroque
The Pasadena Symphony and principal guest conductor Nicholas McGegan presents “Baroque Around the World,” on Saturday, Jan. 20, at Ambassador Auditorium.
Highly regarded as “one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation” (London Independent), the two-time Grammy nominee will jump-start the new year with his performance.
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Pasadena Symphony’s Moonlight Sonata Gala
Pasadena Symphony Opens With Tchaikovsky
The Pasadena Symphony will open its 89th Season with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 and Prokofiev’s 2nd Violin Concerto on Saturday, Oct. 14, at Ambassador Auditorium with performances at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. The season opener also will feature the world premiere of “Ichabod! The Protest Is Over,” by James Lee III.
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