2022-2023 POPS SERIES
Bring (or pre-order) your picnic dinner and drinks! Enjoy an all-around fun evening of music, dance, food and friendship.
THIS POPS SEASON IS GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY
Program and artists are subject to change.
October 29, 2022
Remember When Rock Was Young:
The Elton John Tribute, starring Craig A. Meyer, vocals and piano
Eckart Preu, conductor
This full evening of Sir Elton’s most beloved hits comes to life thrilling audiences across the nation, singing and dancing to the tunes of this Grammy, Tony, and Academy award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legend!
December 17, 2022
Holiday Pops
Morihiko Nakahara, conductor
Long Beach Camerata Singers, Choir
It’s the most wonderful time of the year for families to ring in the holidays with a festive evening of your holiday favorites and sing-alongs. Guaranteed to put you and your family in the holiday spirit!
February 25, 2023
ARRIVAL from Sweden: The Music of ABBA
Anthony Parnther, conductor
Timeless hit songs like Dancing Queen, Mamma Mia, SOS, Waterloo, Fernando and many more performed by the biggest Abba show in the world. Dance to the hit songs from the movie and musical MAMMA MIA!
March 25, 2023
BRAVO Broadway!
Dr. James Bass, conductor | Scarlett Strallen, LaKisha Jones and Hugh Panaro, vocalists
Celebrating the best of Broadway featuring West Side Story, My Fair Lady,Chicago, Les Miserables, Hairspray, Rent, and Little Shop of Horrors. Plus Andrew Lloyd Webber’s greatest hits from Cats and Phantom of the Opera.
May 20, 2023
A Night of Symphonic Rock Dance Party
Susie Seiter, conductor
Dance the night away to the greatest classic rock hits of all time, featuring an all-star six-piece rock band, and your Long Beach Symphony playing tunes by the Eagles, the Doors, Led Zeppelin, Scorpions, Starship, Journey and more!
2022-2023 CLASSICAL SERIES
Program and artists are subject to change.
October 1, 2022
Beethoven’s 5th
Roger Wilkie, violin
Prokofiev -- Symphony No. 1 “Classical”
Mendelssohn -- Violin Concerto
Beethoven -- Symphony No. 5
Music Director Eckart Preu and the Long Beach Symphony launch the 2022-2023 season with a trio of beloved classical masterworks. Opening the concert is Sergei Prokofiev’s ebullient Classical Symphony, among the composer’s most popular works. Next, Concertmaster Roger Wilkie steps into the spotlight in Mendelssohn’s passionate Violin Concerto. The program concludes with the world’s most famous symphony, which may make you jump from your seat as it opens with perhaps the most iconic phrase in the classical repertoire: the majestic “bum bum bum BUM” of Ludwig van Beethoven’s richly triumphant Symphony No.5.
November 19, 2022
Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff
Natasha Paremski, piano
Enrico Chapela -- Rotor
Rachmaninoff -- Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Tchaikovsky -- Swan Lake Suite
Tchaikovsky -- 1812, Overture
Two of classical music’s most romantic Russian composers share the stage in this concert that also presents Enrico Chapela’s high-flying “Rotor”, with its intensity and emotion paving the way for more ardent musical expression as the program unfolds. Both Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky are treasured by music-lovers for their deeply felt works that epitomize the heights and depths of human yearning and heroism. Russian-born pianist Natasha Paremski guests.
February 4, 2023
The Four Seasons
Roger Wilkie, Agnes Gottschewski, Chloé Tardiff, Chyi-Yau
Lee, solo violins
Mozart -- Symphony No. 40 in G minor
Vivaldi -- The Four Seasons
It’s February, so we’re celebrating winter! … and summer and autumn and spring at our concert featuring Antonio Vivaldi’s stormy, windy, rainy, sunny, not to mention delightful Four Seasons Concerti, with solos by Long Beach Symphony’s own stellar lead violinists. The performance begins with Mozart’s mournful but gripping Great G minor symphony, one of only two symphonies the master wrote in a minor key.
March 11, 2023
Carmina Burana
Long Beach Camerata Singers, South Bay Children’s Choir,
Silver-Garburg Piano Duo
Ana Lara -- Angeles de Llama y Hielo (Angels of Fire and Ice)
Orff -- Carmina Burana
Audiences can anticipate a highly-charged, exhilarating evening at the Terrace Theater when the symphony embarks on a thrilling musical pilgrimage through fire and ice and passion. We welcome back the Silver-Garburg piano duo, who return to join Long Beach Camerata Singers and South Bay Children’s Choir in the exuberant orchestral panorama of Carl Orff’s pulsating Carmina Burana.
June 3, 2023
An American in Paris
Michelle Cann, piano
Brian Nabors -- Pulse
Ellington -- Harlem
Nan Schwartz – Romanza
Florence Price -- Piano Concerto in One Movement
Gershwin -- An American in Paris
Our season finale offers audiences an infectious array of American musical genius. Award-winning pianist Michelle Cann takes center stage performing the Piano Concerto in One Movement by groundbreaking American composer Florence Price. The concert also includes brilliant 21st -century works by Brian Nabors and Nan Schwartz, along with Duke Ellington’s swinging “Harlem” and George Gershwin’s foot-tapping “An American in Paris.” We will send you out dancing!