Brahms' Academic Festival Overture - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Brahms' Academic Festival Overture - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture," which the composer offhandedly characterized as "a potpourri of student songs," fe... Read more
5 Mar 2020
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11mins
Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto in D Minor - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto in D Minor - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Virtuoso violinist Keir GoGwilt is the featured soloist in Robert Schumann's vibrant "Violin Concerto in D Minor." Once... Read more
22 Jan 2020
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30mins
Rossini's Overture to William Tell - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Rossini's Overture to William Tell - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Rossini's 1829 opera "William Tell" is rarely performed today, but its Overture lives on as one of the most popular work... Read more
1 Jan 2020
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13mins
Price's Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Price's Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
In the 2018/2019 season the La Jolla Symphony performed Florence Price's "Violin Concerto No. 2," and inaugurates their ... Read more
20 Dec 2019
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29mins
Young People's Concert 2019 - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Young People's Concert 2019 - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
In this fun and informative program Conductor Steven Schick guides the audience through excerpts from Béla Bartók's Conc... Read more
13 Nov 2019
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55mins
Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Originally written as the second (slow) movement of a string quartet, Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" went on to b... Read more
26 Jul 2019
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13mins
George Butterworth's The Banks of Green Willow - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
George Butterworth's The Banks of Green Willow - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
A close friend of Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth was a largely self-trained composer who was immersed in Eng... Read more
26 Jul 2019
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11mins
Maurice Ravel's La Valse - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Maurice Ravel's La Valse - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Though suspicious of German music in general Maurice Ravel was an unabashed fan of the waltz, and wrote several pieces t... Read more
20 Jul 2019
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14mins
Rand Steiger's Template for Improvising Trumpeter and Orchestra - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Rand Steiger's Template for Improvising Trumpeter and Orchestra - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
As noted by the title, this piece centers on the talents of virtuoso trumpeter Peter Evans in a performance that is larg... Read more
14 Jul 2019
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15mins
Wolfe's Fuel - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Wolfe's Fuel - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Wolfe has taken particular pleasure in writing music for film, and we hear her "Fuel" with a... Read more
1 Jul 2019
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20mins