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    Pacific Symphony Celebrates the Year of the Rabbit Sponsored by Bank Irvine

    Abundant with symbols of good luck and prosperity for the year ahead, Pacific Symphony’s extravagant “Lunar New Year Celebration and Concert” delighted guests with a feast for all the senses on Saturday evening, Jan. 28. The lively event brought together the transformative and unifying

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    NEWS OF WORLD PREMIERE THIS MONTH

    Pacific Symphony is pleased to announce the world premiere of a new work by the Emmy Award-winning composer, John Wineglass. He has composed a violin concerto to be played by concertmaster Dennis Kim on the Tchaikovsky & Strauss programs, Feb.

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    Music as Medicine

    Philosophers, wise men, and physicians have long known that music holds healing powers. Plato in The Republic wrote: “Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of

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    A Message from Carl St. Clair

    While February is the shortest month of the year, the concerts you’ll be hearing are long on satisfaction. I will be opening and closing the month with two contrasting concerts. My good friend Yefim Bronfman makes a welcome return to

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    About Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet

    What more could you want from the season of love than a musical story filled with whirlwind pining and passion. Pacific Symphony presents selections from Sergei Prokoviev’s Romeo and Juliet February 5, 2023 at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Musical

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    About Schumann’s Concerto A Minor

    Robert and Clara Schumann are a well-known power couple in classical music history. Starting off as close friends drawn to music, they both encouraged and inspired each other in their art. Once wed, the two made a perfect team with

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    Bank of America Names Pacific Symphony as a 2022 Neighborhood Builders®Awardee

    Program Provides $200,000 in Flexible Funding and Leadership Development Training Pacific Symphony was named as a 2022 Bank of America Neighborhood Builders® awardee for the orchestra’s work in the Orange County community. The Neighborhood Builders program continues to be the

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    Happy Lunar New Year!

    The data-miners, the demographers, the digerati all tell us that just over a fifth of the world’s population share a lunar calendar as part of their cultural heritage. Though the solar-based Gregorian calendar is universally accepted in the modern world,

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    Pacific Symphony Welcomes Arthur Ong As New Board Chair

    Pacific Symphony is pleased to announce that Arthur Ong, who currently serves as Executive Vice Chair of the orchestra’s Board of Directors, has been elected as Chairman of the Board to serve a two-year term. On January 1, 2023, he

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    Mahler’s Critics, Then and Now

    Critics of the past are easy targets for today’s music fans—perhaps too easy when they pan the music that we have come to love. But in the case of Gustav Mahler, reading contemporary assessments of his compositions is fascinating. In

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