Gershwin gems from the jazz age to modern classics from Sondheim with I Got Rhythm, Broadway Baby, Send in the Clowns and everything in between!
Michael Feinstein, Conductor
From The Beach Boys to The Mamas and The Papas, to Sinatra, Andy Williams and more, Feinstein defines the sounds of the ultimate decade.
Experience first-hand stories from West side Story to On the Town, and an intimate look at the legend’s relationships with Kurt Weill, Jerome Kern, Jule Styne and more.
Hear the best of hit shows that traveled from Broadway to Hollywood with Funny Girl, The Music Man, My Fair Lady and your favorite classic films. It’s quintessential Feinstein at its finest.
A one-of-a-kind fundraising event, the Moonlight Sonata Gala benefitting the Pasadena Symphony and POPS will be held on Saturday, September 22, 2018 at Pasadena’s iconic City Hall. This year’s distinct Luminaries include Seyfarth Shaw LLP and Barbara Mann Steinwedell – incomparable supporters of the PSA’s musical mission. Embrace your inner reveler as we gather under…
October 20, 2018 2:00pm & 8:00pmMendelssohn String Symphony No. 3 Elgar Introduction & Allegro Mozart RequiemBuy TicketsTender melodies, powerful choruses, exquisite arias -- Mozart's hauntingly beautiful “Requiem” gets the Pasadena Symphony's 2018-19 season off to a grand start.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.
