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Journeys to California: Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3


  • Jacobs Music Center 1245 Seventh Avenue San Diego, CA, 92101 United States (map)

The San Diego Symphony has offered us 20 tickets to each of their production of Journeys to California: Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3 on Friday, April 10th and Saturday April 11th at 7:30 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 Tuesday, March 31st using the form below. Instructions to receive tickets will be sent out when we 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) 732-6687‬.


Journeys to California: Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3

ABOUT THE CONCERT

Robert Spano, conductor
Conrad Tao, piano
San Diego Symphony Orchestra

ADAM SCHOENBERG: Cool Cat
JOHN ADAMS: Century Rolls
RACHMANINOFF: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44

READ PROGRAM NOTES

An exuberant celebration of music by three composers, all of whom came from elsewhere to live in California. The youngest, Massachusetts-born Adam Schoenberg, is famous for his ability to meld popular idioms into energetic pieces for classical audiences and Cool Cat is no exception. This delightful fanfare of an overture celebrates the life of P-22, the world-famous mountain lion who lived for a decade in the hills above Los Angeles. John Adams, one of the most renowned American composers, wrote his piano concerto Century Rolls in the 1990s as a celebration of the great age of American player-piano recordings a century ago by artists such as Jelly Roll Morton and Gershwin. Russian-born Rachmaninoff himself spent much of the last quarter century of his life in the US, becoming a citizen and owning homes in New York and Los Angeles. Rachmaninoff was a huge admirer of American popular music and in the last movement of his Third Symphony we can hear his delight in Hollywood film-music and especially the movies of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Pre-Concert Talk | One Hour Before Concert

Join University of San Diego's Music Department Chair, Jeffrey Malecki, for a pre-concert talk inside Jacobs Music Center from 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Friday or Saturday. He will introduce the audience to the repertoire for this concert. Entry is included with your ticket. 


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