Youth Ensembles Culminating Concert, featuring Pacific Symphony Santiago Strings and Pacific Symphony Wind Ensemble at 4:30 p.m. and Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra at 7 p.m., when Michael Hall concludes his tenure at Pacific Symphony by leading his ...

Aaron Copland characterized “The Rite of Spring” as the foremost orchestral achievement of the 20th century and The New York Times proclaimed the significance of The Rite “to the 20th century as Beethoven's Ninth is to the 19th.” Also on the program, ...

Rachmaninoff’s irresistibly romantic works for tandem keyboards are a playground for powerhouse virtuosos. This all-Rachmaninoff program features the two-piano wizardry of Boris Slutsky and George Vatchnadze from the famous Toradze Piano Studio.

More than 40 years after Leonard Bernstein tapped him to replace an ailing Glenn Gould, André Watts remains one of the world’s most celebrated and beloved piano superstars. He returns to Orange County to perform Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2.

Tchaikovsky described the opening fanfares of his Fourth Symphony: “This is Fate, the force of destiny, which ever prevents our pursuit of happiness from reaching its goal.” Yet, his Fourth Symphony brings us from gloom to energy, from darkness to light. Hear how.