The San Diego Symphony has offered us 20 tickets each night to their production of Folk Auras: Thayer Plays Berg Violin Concerto on either Friday, May 15th OR Saturday May 16th 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 WEDNESDAY, May 6th 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) 948-5946.
Folk Auras: Thayer Plays Berg Violin Concerto
Rafael Payare, conductor
Jeff Thayer, violin
San Diego Symphony Orchestra
JIMMY LÓPEZ: Perú negro
BERG: Violin Concerto
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, “Scottish”
Three works inspired in very different ways by folk music and the mix of different cultures. Perú Negro (Black Peru), by San Diego Symphony’s Composer-in-Residence Jimmy López, was composed in 2012, and in the words of the composer “showcases my native country’s Afro-Peruvian heritage” while celebrating the exuberant fusion of African and Latin elements in the popular music of his native land. Alban Berg’s last completed work, his mystical Violin Concerto, was written in 1935 “to the memory of an angel”. The angel was Manon, the daughter of Alma Mahler (by her second husband) who had died a few months earlier at the age of 18. Berg includes in his concerto a beautiful folk-tune from the Southern Austrian Catholic region of Carinthia, and a haunting old German Protestant hymn-tune, which Bach had used several times. Mendelssohn’s "Scottish" Symphony, like his Hebrides Overture, was inspired by his youthful trip to Scotland where the young Berliner was overwhelmed by the feeling of a haunting and ancient culture. In his symphony we hear echoes of Scottish traditional music for bagpipes, fiddles and harps, the skipping rhythms of Scottish folk dancing, and Romantic impressions of ruined medieval castles and monasteries.
Pre-Concert Talk | One Hour Before Concert
Join San Diego Symphony's Creative Consultant, Gerard McBurney, 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.
Gerard will be joined by San Diego Symphony’s Composer-in-Residence, Jimmy López.
Entry is included with your ticket.