[Car tune] L'elisir d'amore: Una furtiva lagrima

Brian Lauritzen's car tune.

"... break lights, and people not using their turn signals, all of that going on on the freeways of southern California ..."



"L'elisir d'amore: Una furtiva lagrima" by Gaetano Donizetti
Performance by Joshua Bell, violin, Orchestra of St. Luke's, conducted by Michael Stern.

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André Previn

KUSC is broadcasting the eleventh concert of Pacific Symphony's 2014-2015 classical concert series tonight at 7 PM (PST).

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Music director Carl St.Clair will be performing with violinist Jaime Laredo, cellist Sharon Robinson, and soprano Elizabeth Futral.

André Previn: Principals

André Previn: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello

André Previn: Owls

André Previn: Honey and Rue

[Car tune] Semele: Where e'er you walk

Rich Capparela's car tune.

"... and that way, you will not rear-end that person who just cut you off, and that's what you want to do, so instead let off the gas, take a deep breath, relax ..."



"Semele: Where e'er you walk" by George Frideric Handel
Performance by Nicholas Daniel, oboe, City of London Sinfonia, conducted by John Rutter.

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[Car tune] River Flows in You

Rich Capparela's car tune.

"... look at it this way, it's not raining ..."



"River Flows in You" by Yiruma
Performance by Yiruma, piano.

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Beethoven's "Emperor"

KUSC is broadcasting the tenth concert of Pacific Symphony's 2014-2015 classical concert series tonight at 7 PM (PST).

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Guest conductor John Nelson will be performing with pianist Barry Douglas.

Carl Maria von Weber:  Overture to Oberon, J. 306

Ludwig van Beethoven:  Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 73, Emperor

Robert Schumann:  Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61

Romeo & Juliet Reimagined

KUSC is broadcasting the ninth concert of Pacific Symphony's 2014-2015 classical concert series tonight at 7 PM (PST).

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We went to the Saturday and Sunday concert on April 18 and 19.

If you have never heard the "happy ending" version of Romeo & Juliet, here's your chance.  :)

The first half involved pieces featuring the main violin players and principal cellist of the symphony.

Music director Carl St.Clair conducted with artistic adviser Joseph Horowitz.

Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in B Minor for 4 Violins, Continuo & Strings, Op. 3, No. 10, RV 580 (Ramond Kobler, Paul Manaster, Jeanne Skrocki, and Bridget Dolkas, violins)

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 (Timothy Landauer, cello)

Serge Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64

[Car tune] Thais: Meditation

Rich Capparela's car tune.

"... today, I was driving in on the Santa Monica freeway, and happen to see the person in front of me, litter, dropping some, looked like a wrapping from a cigarette package that he had just opened, and thrown out the window into my windshield and everyone behind me, for the next few years, so, he happened to pull over one lane, and gave me an opportunity to pull up along side him, to give me the opportunity to give him a really dirty look, you know, I mean, what else can you do?  just try to get his eyes, and contact that, and just glare for a moment, sadly, even though I pulled up along side him, and his car window was open, I could not make eye contact, why?  Because in one hand, he had a cigarette, that was in the right hand, in the left hand, up to his ear, with the telephone, and was just too wrapped up on that non-hands-free phone call to even know that I was glaring ..."



"Thais: Meditation" by Jules Massenet
Performance by Maxim Vengerov, violin, Virtuosi, conducted by Mikhail Parkhomovsky.

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[Car tune] Two Sunsets

Rich Capparela's car tune.

"... someone's got to have some class and sanctity on the roadway, might as well be you ..."



"Two Sunsets" by Ludovico Einaudi
Performance by Ludovico Einaudi, piano, Marco Decimo, cello.

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Tchaikovsky’s "Pathetique"

KUSC is broadcasting the eighth concert of Pacific Symphony's 2014-2015 classical concert series tonight at 7 PM (PST).

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We went to the Sunday concert on March 15.

Carl St.Clair conducted with violinist James Ehnes.

Frank Ticheli: There Will Be Rest

James Newton Howard: Violin Concerto (world premiere)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”

[Car tune] Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Rich Capparela's car tune.

"... after all, it seems like you're the only person on that freeway not a total idiot ..."



"Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performance by New Queen's Hall Orchestra, conducted by Barry Wordsworth.

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[Car tune] Petit Adagio

Rich Capparela's car tune.

"... you might as well be the only one sane on the 405 ..."



"Petit Adagio" by Alexander Glazunov
Performance by Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov.

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