Nowruz - Celebrating Spring Performance Venues
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American Composers Festival 2012
Nowruz - Celebrating Spring
Pacific Symphony in collaboration with Farhang Foundation invites you to a musical celebration of Nowruz - Iranian New Year, featuring world-renowned Persian classical musicians.
American Composers Festival 2012 is sponsored in part by: 
FESTIVAL OVERVIEW
For tickets and information, click on the concert title.
Nowruz - Celebrating Spring
Thu, Fri & Sat • Mar 22-24 • 8PM • concert preview at 7PM
Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
Pacific Symphony • Carl St.Clair - conductor
Farhad Mechkat - conductor
Shams Ensemble • Hila Plitmann - soprano
Pacific Chorale, John Alexander - artistic director
KODALY: Dances of Galanta
TRADITIONAL PERSIAN MUSIC
DANIELPOUR: Toward a Season of Peace (world premiere)
The Iranian New Year — marking the arrival of spring — has been celebrated since ancient times. This year, join your neighbors in a program of
festive Persian music featuring the Shams Ensemble. Then, celebrate a world premiere: Richard Danielpour's oratorio "Toward a Season of Peace" was commissioned by Pacific Symphony as part of this year's American Composers Festival.
CLASSICAL CONNECTIONS
A New Day - Celebrating Nowruz
Sun • Mar 25 • 3PM
Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
Pacific Symphony • Carl St.Clair - conductor
Shams Ensemble • Hila Plitmann - soprano
Pacific Chorale, John Alexander - artistic director
TRADITIONAL PERSIAN MUSIC
DANIELPOUR: Toward a Season of Peace (world premiere)
A special festival celebrating the music of Persian-Americans is the impetus for a new work by Richard Danielpour, whose own Persian ancestry served as
inspiration for his oratorio "Toward a Season of Peace." The Shams Ensemble joins the Symphony to perform traditional Persian music.
SPECIAL FESTIVAL CONCERT
Shams Ensemble
Tue • Mar 27 • 8PM
Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
Shams Ensemble
The Shams Ensemble draws its inspiration from traditional Kurdish, Sufi and classical Iranian music. The group creates its mesmerizing music with the help of the tanbour (the Kurdish lute), daf (frame drum) and percussion instruments.
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