Music director Carl St.Clair conducted with the Pacific Chorale and the CSUF Chorus. The first half of the program was changed to a memoriam to the late principal cellist, Timothy Landauer.
ELGAR: "Nimrod" from the "Enigma Variations"
TICHELI: "Rest" for Chorus and Strings
RAVEL: “L'enfant et les sortilèges” (“The Child and the Magic Spells”)
KUSC's Alan Chapman interviewed stage director Robert Neu in the pre-concert lecture. Robert also staged the Magic Flute last year. Among other things, he talked about the interesting episode of when he first staged something. There were a lot of weddings when he was 5, and he served as ring bearer on multiple occasions. He loved the weddings, and he staged a wedding between 2 toy tractors! :)
The wind section principals will be the soloists in the Mozart piece. Flutist Benjamin Smolen, Oboist Jessica Pearlman Fields, Bassoonist Rose Corrigan, Hornist Keith Popejoy.
