Skip to content
  • Store
  • Renewals
  • 1-CLICK GIFT
  • Cart
  • Login
The Pacific Symphony Blog

The Pacific Symphony Blog

A classical music website dedicated to Pacific Symphony

Menu

  • Home
  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Recommended recordings
  • Concert etiquette

    Weissenberg plays ‘Petrushka’

    Here’s one of my favorite concert videos. It features pianist Alexis Weissenberg playing Stravinsky’s Three Movements from Petrushka. The director is Ake Falck, and while he didn’t exactly reinvent the wheel, the lighting and the camerawork here are superb. Notice

    pacificsymphony August 30, 2018 classical music, Video 1 Comment Read more

    Bernstein: ‘Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs’

    In the run-up to Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, I’ve been highlighting some of his lesser known music. Here’s his jazz/classical fusion piece “Prelude, Fugue and Riffs,” originally written, like Stravinsky’s “Ebony Concerto,” which it resembles, for Woody Herman’s big band.

    pacificsymphony August 7, 2018August 7, 2018 classical music, Video No Comments Read more

    Pacific Overtures: July

    My monthly newsletter, with July concert listings, an interview with Anne Akiko Meyers, news about the orchestra, a playlist, a video and more … Pacific Overtures. July, 2018.

    pacificsymphony July 2, 2018 classical music, feature, news, Video No Comments Read more

    Stravinsky conducts ‘Pulcinella’

    Composer Igor Stravinsky conducts the Toronto Symphony in the ending of his own ballet “Pulcinella.” This is in 1967, very late in his life, the latest I’ve seen him conducting on film. He would have been about 85 here. Stravinsky

    pacificsymphony June 7, 2018 classical music, Video No Comments Read more

    Pacific Overtures: June

    Pacific Overtures. June, 2018

    pacificsymphony May 31, 2018 classical music, feature, news, Video No Comments Read more

    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.

    pacificsymphony May 29, 2018 classical music, Video 3 Comments Read more

    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

    pacificsymphony May 29, 2018 classical music, news No Comments Read more

    Video: Monteux conducts ‘Le sacre du printemps’

    I was listening to this recording again the other night for the first time in a while and was struck by not only how good the performance was but also by how it must be quite close to how this

    pacificsymphony January 11, 2018 classical music, Video 1 Comment Read more

    Lesson Eight: Motivation and nerves

    My last piano lesson in the series. Recording coming soon. Lesson Eight: Motivation and nerves. OC Music and Dance blog, Aug. 31, 2017.

    pacificsymphony September 1, 2017September 1, 2017 classical music No Comments Read more

    Audio: Stravinsky: Andante

    Stravinsky’s music is often thought of as a relentlessly bold, spiky and angular, but he also wrote in gentle pastels. Here’s one such piece, his Andante for piano four hands (which I’m learning at the moment). And now listen to

    pacificsymphony July 27, 2017 classical music, Video No Comments Read more
    • « Previous

    CATEGORIES

    • Class Act
    • classical music
    • Development
    • Family Musical Mornings
    • feature
    • film
    • Humans of Pacific Symphony
    • news
    • opera
    • Pacific Symphony Youth Ensembles
    • philanthropy
    • SummerFest
    • Symphony League
    • Uncategorized
    • Video

    ARCHIVE

    Meta

    • Log in
    • Entries feed
    • Comments feed
    • WordPress.org

    Contact Us

    Pacific Symphony Offices

    Office: (714) 755-5788
    Box Office: (714) 755-5799
    Hours: 9 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and
    12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.(Mon.-Fri.)

    Charlie and Ling Zhang Center
    for Musical Arts and Education
    17620 Fitch, Suite 100
    Irvine, CA 92614-6081

    Performance Venues

    Renée and Henry Segerstrom
    Concert Hall

    Samueli Theater

    615 Town Center Drive
    Costa Mesa, CA 92626

    FivePoint Amphitheatre

    14800 Chinon
    Irvine, CA 92618

    ABOUT US

    • Contact Us
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Twitter
    • LinkedIn
    • YouTube
    • Spotify
    Copyright © 2023 The Pacific Symphony Blog. All rights reserved. Theme Spacious by ThemeGrill. Powered by: Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
     

    Loading Comments...