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    Pacific Overtures: June

    Pacific Overtures. June, 2018

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    Pacific Symphony: June concerts

    This month we wind up the season with classical concerts and pops concerts. Here’s a quick guide to all of our events in June, with links to tickets. A pair of young musicians who are already established in international careers

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    Miscellany

    Tim Page reviews — or ponders — the largest boxed set of CDs ever produced (all conducted by Herbert von Karajan)…. Soprano Nina Stemme is awarded the Birgit Nilsson Prize and lots of money…. Anne Akiko Meyers, who visits Pacific

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    That pounding bit in ‘The Rite of Spring’

    Here are those 11 beats in Part II of Stravinsky’s “Le sacre du printemps” (today is the anniversary of its 1913 premiere) in 103 different performances. Warning: This is bizarre.

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    That time Igor Stravinsky was in a watch ad

    I happened upon this photo the other day — the composer Igor Stravinsky with a cat. My son and I were curious about the watch — Stravinsky was always a dapper dresser — and we came upon this (click on

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    Haydn: Symphony No. 22 in E flat, ‘The Philosopher’

    A wonderful early symphony, not played often enough.

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    Musicians on tour

    It was great to catch up with the musicians of Pacific Symphony on the China tour, many of whom I hadn’t spoken to since the European tour in 2006 (which I covered for a newspaper), some of whom I was

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    Jeanne Skrocki: A violinist flying high

    By ERICA SHARP Jeanne Skrocki remembers a time when she had given up the violin and might not ever play again. Twenty-five years later, she is the now assistant concertmaster of Pacific Symphony, a spot that seems like it was

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    The bass drum in Wuxi Grand Theatre

    In the video below, you’ll get just an inkling of what the bass drum sounded like — the fidelity isn’t great — when Carl St.Clair and Pacific Symphony played “Daphnis and Chloe” in Wuxi Grand Theatre in China recently. I

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    Tuesday in Beijing

    I finally got laser tagged in Beijing. All I was doing was trying to get a photograph of bassoonist Andy Klein, on crutches, being helped off the stage of the National Center for the Performing Arts there on Tuesday. It

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