It is with deep sadness that I share with you the passing of our beloved Timothy Landauer, Principal Cellist of Pacific Symphony. As many of you probably know, Tim battled cancer over the last year with great determination and courage.

Pablo Villegas, who will be the featured soloist in our upcoming “Master of Guitar” festival on May 2-4, wrote a blog post last year about the inspiration he draws from his relationship with world-renowned opera singer Plácido Domingo. Villegas touches

It’s always a little humbling when you’re asked to direct a piece you don’t know. Since I’ve been working in the opera business for a while I pride myself on knowing the repertoire. So when I recently had this happen—with a

This is an excerpt of an article by Paul Hodgins, for Voice of OC. You can find the full article on their website here. [Murray Sidlin], who is in town to perform a work that uniquely honors victims of the Holocaust,

KUSC’s Alan Chapman interviewed Murry Sidlin who conducts the upcoming “Defiant Requiem” performance with Pacific Symphony on April 16 at 8 p.m. Listen to the extended Arts Alive feature on the “Defiant Requiem” on the KUSC blog.

Like many of us of a certain age, composer Michael Daugherty remembers watching the Apollo 11 Moon landing on television. It was the culmination of the Space Age, one of our era’s defining events, a moment that divided history into

A huge thank-you to composer Michael Daugherty for giving us some insight into this world premiere. “To the New World” was commissioned by Pacific Symphony, and was written in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the historic Moon landing by

A  Message from Pacific Symphony President, John Forsyte I am so pleased to announce the newest endowment of a Pacific Symphony musician’s chair. Board of Director member Judy Whitmore has agreed to endow, in perpetuity, the Assistant Concertmaster Chair, held

“Please observe him if you will. He’s Professor Harold Hill, And he’s here to organize a River City boys band!” Professor Harold Hill, the all-American conniver at the heart of Meredith Willson’s signature work The Music Man, is the most

In light of André Previn’s recent passing, we’d like to share an interview between him and Carl St.Clair in front of an American Composers Festival audience from 2015. The two discuss his pieces “Owls” and “Honey and Rue,” the latter