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!