Night of Prayer and Organ Spectacular at Pacific Symphony
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The concert began with a speech by John Forsyte, President of the Pacific Symphony, and the orchestra playing "Prayer for Ukraine"
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Olga Kern Returns to OC with a Winning Tchaikovsky
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One cannot say enough good things about Ms. Kern’s playing, in which clarity of line is in no way clouded by passionate expression and outbursts.
Read MoreUnder Salonen, Colburn School Orchestra Plays Wagner Like Gods
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Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen proved a superb colorist in this music. He reading was dark, tense, brooding in the narrative, and soft, warm, radiant in the Winterstürme.
Read MorePacific Symphony’s “Butterfly” Soars to Tragic Heights
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Korean lyric soprano Yunah Lee is a touching, detailed and delicate Cio-Cio-San, more adapt, perhaps, in emotional force and tragic power of Acts II and III than as a fifteen-year-old Geisha girl of Act I.
Read MoreIn Tchaikovsky and Dvorak, Czech Philharmonic Exudes Warmth and Charm
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Semyon Bychkov is an exceptional conductor, and he seemed to draw out effortlessly the warmth of tone and the easy charm of phrasing for which the Czech Philharmonic has long been famous.
Read MoreBack by Popular Demand, Taiwan Philharmonic Shows its French Colors
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Taiwan Philharmonic showed a natural affinity for French Impressionism, in a sea journey full of light, waves and magical vistas, or in a mythical world of Daphnis et Chloé.
Read MoreMozart Masses Consecrate and Inaugurate PSOC Season
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Mozart’s sacred choral works, performed on period instruments and sung by light, agile voices, transforming the Segerstrom Concert Hall quite literally into a temple of music.
Read MorePacific Symphony’s Opening Concert Has Glam, Fun and Poetry
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Celebrating its 40-year anniversary, the Pacific Symphony is fortunate to have Carl St. Clair who, at his best, is able to make his orchestra sound much greater than the sum of its parts.
Read MoreDanish Symphony’s Debut Concert in OC Is a Wild Success
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Led by their new Italian conductor Fabio Luisi. The combination of cool Scandinavian efficiency and warm Mediterranean sunshine proved to be a winning formula.
Read MorePacific Symphony’s new season starts in high gear with Olga Kern’s Rachmaninoff
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Pianist Olga Kern’s playing in Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini” was one for the ages, one that’s worth braving two hours of rush traffic from downtown L.A.
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