The San Diego Symphony has offered us 20 tickets to their production of Payare Leads Strauss’ A Hero’s Life on SATURDAY, October 3rd 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 Sunday, September 27th 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.
Payare Leads Strauss’ A Hero’s Life
Rafael Payare, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano
GUBAIDULINA: Fairytale Poem (Poema-Skazka)
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
R. STRAUSS: A Hero's Life (Ein Heldenleben), Op. 40
The 2026-2027 season opens with Rafael Payare conducting the Orchestra in a concert celebrating the power of human imagination.
Sofia Gubaidulina’s Poema-Skazka ("Fairy-Tale Poem") tells of a little piece of chalk that spends its days writing mathematical exercises but one evening takes on a life of its own, covering the blackboard with flowers and castles and fantasies, sacrificing itself for the power of imagination. Written in 1971 for a children’s program on Soviet radio, it accompanied a reading of a story by the 20th century Czech writer, Miloš Macourek.
Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 is one of the most dramatic pieces he wrote in any form. The first movement has a thrilling tragic grandeur, an epic feeling that directly inspired Beethoven and many other composers who came after. Pianist Yefim Bronfman returns to Jacobs Music Center for this electrifying concerto.
Of all Strauss’s tone poems, none is more sumptuously and gorgeously theatrical than Ein Heldenleben, “A Hero’s Life". It tells an outrageous story, at once tremendously grand and hilariously funny, filled with laughter and mockery. No wonder this one piece has been such an inspiration for generations of film-composers!
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.