The Santa Barbara Symphony, under the direction of Maestro Nir Kabaretti, begins its 59th season with Hector Berlioz’s legendary Symphonie Fantastique and Elgar’s famous Cello Concerto performed by the world-renown musician Lynn Harrell. Their high-powered season continues focusing on Beethoven’s masterworks, the Emperor Concerto and the Pastoral Symphony. Superb violinist Anne Akiko-Meyers will join SBS in January 2012 to perform Vaughan Williams’ elegant The Lark Ascending and Ravel’s Tzigane. Ernest Bloch’s neo-classical Concerto Grosso is followed by Bach’s famous Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, taking the strings on a musical excursion from 1925 back to the Baroque era. Haydn’s playful “Hen” symphony completes this delightful program.
The spring concerts feature the Grammy-nominee pianist Terrence Wilson performing Gershwin’s classic Rhapsody in Blue, guest conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto and violinist Alexandre da Costa performing Bizet-Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite, as well as an exciting collaboration of the Santa Barbara Symphony and Santa Barbara Choral Society in the famous Coronation Mass, one of Mozart’s most radiating works. The Santa Barbara Symphony concludes its season with Dvorak’s Eighth Symphony and Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 2 with Principal Horn player Teag Reeves as soloist.
SBS will continue its pre-concert talks “Music Behind the Music” with Ramon Araiza in the hour prior to the concerts, and he will give a special 2011-2012 Season Preview Talk at the Samarkand on September 9, 2011 at 1 pm. thesymphony.org
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