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Video: Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2

https://youtu.be/Il95HXvCdH4 Alexander Romanovsky will perform this piece with Pacific Symphony on Feb. 1-4. Meanwhile, you can get it in your ears by listening to Yuja Wang play it with the Berlin Philharmonic, Paavo Jarvi conducting. It’s considered one of the

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Video: Elgar conducts Elgar

As Michael Francis conducts Pacific Symphony in its first performances of Elgar’s Symphony No. 1 this weekend, I thought it would be a good time to share this historical film of Elgar himself conducting the “Pomp and Circumstance” March No.

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Video: Monteux conducts ‘Le sacre du printemps’

I was listening to this recording again the other night for the first time in a while and was struck by not only how good the performance was but also by how it must be quite close to how this

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Pacific Overtures: January

Pacific Overtures: January

The first newsletter of the new year has arrived … Pacific Overtures. January, 2018.

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January vlog update

Here’s my colleague’s January update on Pacific Symphony’s concerts, in video form.

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Miscellany

(Curated classical music news and views from around the internet.) Looking for ways to spend that Amazon gift card? The New York Times has an excellent list of the 25 best classical recordings of 2017. … NPR has a list

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Pacific Symphony: January concerts

Pacific Symphony: January concerts

Here’s your quick, mobile-friendly guide to Pacific Symphony concerts in January, with links to tickets. There are five concerts in all during the month. The elegant and dashing violin virtuoso Ray Chen arrives Jan. 11-13 to play the greatest violin

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Program for New Year’s concert from Vienna

The 2018 New Year’s concert from Vienna (with the Vienna Philharmonic), on January 1, will be conducted by Riccardo Muti for the fifth time. KOCE will broadcast the event at 9 p.m. on Jan. 1. This is always one of

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Audio: A Christmas symphony

I give you herewith “Santa Claus (Christmas Symphony)” by William Henry Fry, an American composer and critic who lived from 1813-1864. He was a most interesting musician and writer, and is often credited as the first native-born American to write

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Video: Philip Glass: Etude No. 6

Pianist Víkingur Ólafsfon’s new recording of music by Philip Glass is being mentioned in year-end best of lists. This is music that’s great to watch being performed as well as hear.

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