The San Diego Symphony has offered us 20 tickets to each performance of their production of Tragedy and Triumph: Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 on Saturday, January 24th at 7:30 PM and Sunday, January 25th at 2:00 PM. These tickets are offered on a first come, first served basis. As we normally get more RSVP requests than we have available seats, please help us all out by only requesting what you plan to use and if your plans change let us know ASAP so that we can offer the tickets to someone else. There are no guarantees beyond the first 20 seats requested.
Please RSVP no later than noon on Sunday, January 18th using the form below. I will send out instructions to receive tickets when I get confirmation back from the Symphony. Tickets are electronic, so your email will be necessary. There will be no physical tickets distributed.
Any RSVP requests in excess will be placed on a waitlist and tickets allocated based on cancellations. If your plans change please let Joe Zilvinskis know at Joe@pozabilities.org or (619) 948-5946.
Tragedy and Triumph: Shostakovich Symphony No. 8
Rafael Payare, conductor
San Diego Symphony Orchestra
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 65
Beethoven’s explosively exhilarating First Symphony was written in the very last years of the 18th century, when Napoleon was first seizing control of France and setting out to conquer Austria and Italy. The music breathes the air of earth-shaking public events and an intense optimism for the future. Shostakovich composed his colossal Eighth Symphony in the depths of World War II, when the Battle of Stalingrad was raging and the future of the entire world at stake. This wildly dramatic, almost cinematic, music traverses every kind of human feeling from the dark tragedy and struggle of the first movement, through bitter satire and brutal human conflict to despair and finally a vision of a new world of transcendent beauty.
Pre-Concert Talk | One Hour Before Concert
Join Founding Director of the Del Mar International Composers Symposium, Jordan Kuspa, for a pre-concert talk inside Jacobs Music Center from 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Saturday or from 1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Sunday. He will introduce the audience to the repertoire for this concert. Entry is included with your ticket.