Imagine a 3-year-old boy enjoying his first experience of live classical music at Pacific Symphony’s Family Musical Mornings. His grandmother notices he’s riveted on the music and suggests he study piano. Flash-forward from 1993 to 2023, and that boy is now a
Pacific Symphony Celebrates the Year of the Rabbit Sponsored by Bank Irvine
Abundant with symbols of good luck and prosperity for the year ahead, Pacific Symphony’s extravagant “Lunar New Year Celebration and Concert” delighted guests with a feast for all the senses on Saturday evening, Jan. 28. The lively event brought together the transformative and unifying
NEWS OF WORLD PREMIERE THIS MONTH
Pacific Symphony is pleased to announce the world premiere of a new work by the Emmy Award-winning composer, John Wineglass. He has composed a violin concerto to be played by concertmaster Dennis Kim on the Tchaikovsky & Strauss programs, Feb.
Music as Medicine
Philosophers, wise men, and physicians have long known that music holds healing powers. Plato in The Republic wrote: “Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of
A Message from Carl St. Clair
While February is the shortest month of the year, the concerts you’ll be hearing are long on satisfaction. I will be opening and closing the month with two contrasting concerts. My good friend Yefim Bronfman makes a welcome return to
About Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet
What more could you want from the season of love than a musical story filled with whirlwind pining and passion. Pacific Symphony presents selections from Sergei Prokoviev’s Romeo and Juliet February 5, 2023 at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Musical
About Schumann’s Concerto A Minor
Robert and Clara Schumann are a well-known power couple in classical music history. Starting off as close friends drawn to music, they both encouraged and inspired each other in their art. Once wed, the two made a perfect team with
Bank of America Names Pacific Symphony as a 2022 Neighborhood Builders®Awardee
Program Provides $200,000 in Flexible Funding and Leadership Development Training Pacific Symphony was named as a 2022 Bank of America Neighborhood Builders® awardee for the orchestra’s work in the Orange County community. The Neighborhood Builders program continues to be the
Happy Lunar New Year!
The data-miners, the demographers, the digerati all tell us that just over a fifth of the world’s population share a lunar calendar as part of their cultural heritage. Though the solar-based Gregorian calendar is universally accepted in the modern world,
Pacific Symphony Welcomes Arthur Ong As New Board Chair
Pacific Symphony is pleased to announce that Arthur Ong, who currently serves as Executive Vice Chair of the orchestra’s Board of Directors, has been elected as Chairman of the Board to serve a two-year term. On January 1, 2023, he