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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

[Car tune] Czech Suite: Romance Op 39

Rich Capparela's car tune.

"... help you through the break lights, people making lane changes without telling you, and stopping suddenly and not staying in their lane, you know, drivers ..."



"Czech Suite: Romance Op 39" by Antonin Dvorak
Performance by North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

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Sunday, March 20, 2016

Turandot

KUSC is broadcasting the seventh concert of the Pacific Symphony's 2015-2016 classical concert series tonight at 7 PM (PST).

Listen to Alan Chapman's preview on SoundCloud.


We went to the Saturday concert.  The "semi-staged" operas are getting more and more "fully-staged".  Of course, you can't tell from the radio.  :)



Music director Carl St.Clair conducted with the Pacific Chorale and the Southern California Children’s Chorus.

Giacomo Puccini:  Turandot

Princess Turandot:  Tamara Mancini, soprano
Calàf:  Marc Heller, tenor
Liù:  Elizabeth Caballero, soprano
Timur:  Hao Jiang Tian, bass
Ping:  Dan Kempson, baritone
Pang:  Jonathan Blalock, tenor
Pong:  David Blalock, tenor
Emperor Altoum:  Ronald Naldi, tenor
The Mandarin:  Zachary Altman, baritone
The Executioner:  Melody Yao, dancer
Supers:  Jestoni Dagdag, Issac Lai

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Organ Splendor

KUSC is broadcasting the sixth concert of the Pacific Symphony's 2015-2016 classical concert series tonight at 7 PM (PST).

Listen to Alan Chapman's preview on SoundCloud.



Music director Carl St.Clair conducted with the Pacific Chorale and organists Paul Jacobs and Christoph Bull.

Wayne Oquin:  Resilience for Organ and Orchestra (World Premiere) (Paul Jacobs, organ)
Morten Lauridsen:  Lux Aeterna  (Christoph Bull, organ)

William Bolcom:  Humoresk for Organ and Orchestra (Christoph Bull, organ)
Stephen Paulus:  Pilgrim’s Hymn
Stephen Paulus:  Concerto No. 4 (Paul Jacobs, organ)



We went to the Saturday concert back in February.  You won't be able to tell from the radio, but the Pilgrim’s Hymn was sang from the audience section.

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Lin Plays Mozart

KUSC is broadcasting the fifth concert of the Pacific Symphony's 2015-2016 classical concert series tonight at 7 PM (PST).

Listen to Alan Chapman's preview on SoundCloud.



We went to the Sunday concert in January.



Cho-Liang Lin conducted and soloed the violin.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto No. 4 in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, K. 218
Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103
Antonín Dvořák: Romance in F Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 11
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385, Haffner