Brahms' Academic Festival Overture - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture," which the composer offhandedly characterized as "a potpourri of student songs," features an unusual treatment of...
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Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto in D Minor - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Virtuoso violinist Keir GoGwilt is the featured soloist in Robert Schumann's vibrant "Violin Concerto in D Minor." Once rescued from an early undeserv...
Rossini's Overture to William Tell - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Rossini's 1829 opera "William Tell" is rarely performed today, but its Overture lives on as one of the most popular works in the classical repertoire....
Price's Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
In the 2018/2019 season the La Jolla Symphony performed Florence Price's "Violin Concerto No. 2," and inaugurates their 2019/20120 season with Price's...
Young People's Concert 2019 - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
In this fun and informative program Conductor Steven Schick guides the audience through excerpts from Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra and Florenc...
Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Originally written as the second (slow) movement of a string quartet, Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" went on to become one of the most popular s...
George Butterworth's The Banks of Green Willow - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
A close friend of Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth was a largely self-trained composer who was immersed in English folk music. His works gre...
Maurice Ravel's La Valse - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Though suspicious of German music in general Maurice Ravel was an unabashed fan of the waltz, and wrote several pieces that incorporated that distinct...
Rand Steiger's Template for Improvising Trumpeter and Orchestra - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
As noted by the title, this piece centers on the talents of virtuoso trumpeter Peter Evans in a performance that is largely (though not entirely) impr...
Wolfe's Fuel - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Wolfe has taken particular pleasure in writing music for film, and we hear her "Fuel" with a film by Bill Morrison. Series...