• Beethoven Symphony No. 7

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    October 16, 2021 2:00pm & 8:00pmJessie Montgomery  Banner Brahms Violin  Concerto Beethoven  Symphony No. 7BUY TICKETS “Classical music's new breakout star...Goosby plays like an angel with nothing to prove. A cool, calm collected angel.” – Los Angeles Times Widely recognized as one of the most gifted conductors of his generation, conductor Joseph Young kicks off…

  • Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3

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    Michael Abels Commission (world premiere)
    Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
    Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Gershwin/Debussy

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    Copland Fanfare for the Common Man
    Michael Giacchino Voyage
    Gershwin Porgy and Bess: Fantasy for Violin
    Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
    Debussy La Mer

  • Vivaldi Four Seasons

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    Bach  Goldberg Variations for strings
    Reena Esmail  Teen Murti
    Albinoni  Oboe Concerto for trumpet
    Vivaldi  The Four Seasons
    Piazzolla  "Spring" from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

  • Beethoven “Emperor” Piano Concerto

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    Ellen Reid Petrichor
    Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor”
    Defalla El amor brujo Ritual Fire Dance
    Defalla Three-Cornered Hat Suite No. 1
    Marquez Danzon No.2

  • Brahms Symphony No. 1

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    Sydney Wang P (is for play) (world premiere, commission)
    Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1
    Brahms Symphony No. 1

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5

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    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.

  • Mahler Symphony No. 1 “Titan”

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    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.

  • Tchaikovsky Spectacular

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    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…

  • Baroque Masters

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    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

  • Bernstein & Copland

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    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

  • Mozart Requiem

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    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