Symphony Classics

Telemann Overture des nations anciens et modernes
Bach Concerto for Violin and Oboe
Graun Ceasar e Cleopatra

February 17, 20182:00pm & 8:00pmDale Trumbore new work for orchestra (world premiere, Pasadena Symphony commission) Dvorak Cello Concerto Stravinsky The Firebird SuiteBuy Tickets

March 24, 2018 2:00pm & 8:00pmAlexander Miller   Scherzo Crypto Rachmaninoff      Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Elgar                   Enigma VariationsBuy Tickets“Brilliant technique can be taken for granted …but von Oeyen leaves you convinced that he can do absolutely anything he likes with a keyboard.”    …

May 5, 2018 2:00pm & 8:00pmBeethoven       Violin Concerto Beethoven       Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"Buy TicketsDouble your fun with the ultimate Beethoven experience with the composer’s one and only violin concerto and the heroic symphony that changed it all.ListenDownload Program Notes

November 17, 2018 2:00pm & 8:00pmHailstork An American Port of Call Barber  Violin Concerto Copland  Billy the Kid Suite Bernstein  On the Waterfront Bernstein  West Side Story SelectionsBuy TicketsCelebrate Bernstein’s centennial with hits from On the Waterfront to West Side Story plus the best from his friends and contemporaries with Copland, Barber and more. Sphinx laureate Melissa White shines on violin.ListenDownload Program Notes

January 26, 2019 2:00pm & 8:00pmBach     Concerto for Two Violins Corelli  Concerto Grosso in D Major Vivaldi  Concerto for Bassoon Bach     Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 Handel  Water Music Suite No. 1Buy Tickets“One of the finest baroque conductors of his generation” (London Independent), Nic McGegan conducts the best of the Baroque with Bach’s Brandenburgs, Handel’s Water Music and Vivaldi Concertos.ListenDownload Program Notes

February 16, 2019 2:00pm & 8:00pmTchaikovsky  Piano Concerto No. 1 Tchaikovsky  Symphony No. 5Buy TicketsMusic Director David Lockington conducts this all-Tchaikovsky spectacular with his Fifth Symphony exploring a romantic world of destiny, fate and shocking climaxes, plus his wildly popular First Piano Concerto performed by Russian American Pianist Olga Kern – a Van Cliburn winner with…

Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21
Mahler Symphony No. 1

Indulge yourself in Mahler’s monumental and gloriously sonorous “Titan” Symphony, and top it off with Mozart’s fantastical Piano Concerto No. 21 with International Beethoven Piano competition winner Rodolfo Leone.

Verdi Overture to La forza del destino
Schoenberg Orchard in Fog
Beethoven Symphony No. 5.

Beloved violinist Anne Akiko Meyers returns with a remarkable new violin concerto by Grammy-nominated L.A. composer Adam Schoenberg, leading up to the four most famous notes in history with Beethoven’s infamous Fifth Symphony.