Welcome! Live Music is Back!

From the Desk of John Forsyte

Please join me for the opening weekend of what will surely be an emotional return to classical music performances by Pacific Symphony at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. Music Director and Conductor Carl St.Clair has a wonderful program planned including the world premiere of a fantastic work by Juilliard-based composer, Wayne Oquin. The work is described by the composer as the “ongoing aspect of urban city life: the construction of modern skyscrapers.” It features virtuosic and colorful writing for the entire orchestra and for solo clarinet.

One of the great legends in classical music is pianist Emanuel Ax who has had a distinguished solo and recording career and has been a close collaborator with Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and so many other luminaries. Mr. Ax will perform the sparkling Mozart Piano Concerto No. 17. To close the concert, we will hear the sweeping drama of Tchaikovsky’s most beloved Symphony No. 5.

Concerts take place Thursday-Saturday at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday at 3:00 p.m. (Sunday is Tchaikovsky only). To learn more, please click here: www.pacificsymphony.org.

Video message from Music Director Carl St.Clair