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HONORING POLAND’S MUSIC LEGACY
Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater and piano concerto with Peter Gach plus U.S. premiere. March 13 at 8pm, March 14 at 3pm. Details
ARCTIC OCEAN RESEARCH CRUISE!
Volunteer aboard icebreaker Healy to benefit LJS&C! Details
50th YAC ANNIVERSARY CONCERT SUCCESS!
Past winners joined this year’s first-place winners in concert.
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Honoring Poland’s Musical Legacy in the 20th Century and a U.S. Premiere
La Jolla, Calif. (Feb. 17, 2010) — The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C) presents its fourth concert of the 55th season with Choral Director David Chase conducting orchestra, chorus, and soloists in music from two of Poland’s most notable composers: Karol Szymanowski and Krzysztof Penderecki.
“American Accents” Offers Dvorak, Charles Ives, and Lou Harrison’s Pipa Concerto with Soloist Wu Man
La Jolla, Calif. (Jan. 13, 2010) — The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C) on February 6-7 presents a concert of perspectives on and about America: Charles Ives’ Three Places in New England, Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Pipa & String Orchestra with internationally renowned soloist Wu Man on pipa (Chinese lute), and Antonin Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor (New World). LJS&C Music Director Steven Schick conducts.
Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass” Makes San Diego Debut with La Jolla Symphony & Chorus
La Jolla, Calif. (Nov. 16, 2009) — Grab your tie-dyes and your love beads and come back to the Age of Aquarius as La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C) presents Leonard Bernstein’s stunning Mass, a San Diego premiere, on December 4, 5 and 6. Described as a theater-piece for singers, players, and dancers, the LJS&C production incorporates classical music, three choruses, two dance sequences, and jazz and rock ensembles. Ken Anderson, director of the UCSD Gospel Choir, performs the lead of the “Celebrant.” Other guest artists joining the orchestra and chorus include the North Coast Singers’ 30-voice children’s choir - Caprice, dancers Alison Dietterle Smith and Tonnie Sammartano, and members of the UCSD Jazz Ensemble.
Hillcrest and Carlsbad Concerts Feature La Jolla Symphony Chorus, Organist Jared Jacobson and A Cappella Ensemble, “Soliphony”
La Jolla, Calif. (Nov. 11, 2009) —On November 21 and 22, the La Jolla Symphony Chorus (LJSC) presents the latest in its Sacred Voices Series, The Mass Project. The two performances feature the 130-voice chorus, a new a cappella ensemble called “Soliphony,” and special guest Jared Jacobson on organ. The Saturday concert is at 7:00 pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in Hillcrest. Sunday’s concert begins at 4:00 pm at Carlsbad Community Church in Carlsbad.
55th Season Opens with San Diego Premiere, Bartok and Beethoven
La Jolla, Calif. (Oct. 8, 2009) — On the weekend of October 31-November 1, La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C) opens its 55th season with a celebration of songs and dances, offering wonderful examples of each. Bartok’s lively Romanian Folk Dances and Beethoven’s quintessential invitation to the dance, his Seventh Symphony, frame a program that includes three beautiful songs by Argentinean-Israeli-American composer Osvaldo Golijov and Bartok’s white-hot Miraculous Mandarin Suite.
LJS&C Offers an Adventurous New Season – (e)Merging Voices
La Jolla, Calif. (Septemer 14, 2009) — The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C) launches its 55th season the weekend of October 31-November 1 . The 2009-2010 series, themed (e)Merging Voices, highlights the ensemble’s 120-voice chorus on three of the six concert weekends in three major choral works: Leonard Bernstein’s Mass, with its brash mix of classical music and pop culture; Karol Symanowski’s hauntingly beautiful Stabat Mater; and Benjamin Britten’s monumental War Requiem. The season also brings new “voices” in the musical world to local audiences, including Chinese pipa player Wu Man and Grammy-award winning soprano Susan Narucki in their debuts with the orchestra.
Emmy Win for Philip Glass Concert Documentary
La Jolla, Calif. (June 16, 2009) — The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C) and UCSD-TV’s co-production of “La Jolla Symphony & Chorus: Philip Glass’ Cello Concerto” received an Emmy Award in the Entertainment--Program or Special category at the June 13 ceremony in San Diego. UCSD-TV’s Arts and Humanities Producer John Menier accepted the award.
130-Voice Chorus Comes to St. James Church in La Jolla
La Jolla, Calif. (May 19, 2009) The 130-voice La Jolla Symphony Chorus (LJSC) brings its stunning Sacred Voices concert of choral masterworks to St. James By-the-Sea Episcopal Church in La Jolla on Sunday, May 31 at 4:00 p.m. The concert -- titled The Motet Project – offers a sumptuous program of rare and dramatic motets that spans sacred choral music from the Renaissance to the 20th century.
The “DNA of Music” Season Concludes in “Hope” with Mahler’s Mighty Symphony No. 2
La Jolla, Calif.(May 11, 2009) — The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C) presents its final concert of the season on the weekend of June 6-7, 2009, concluding a season-long exploration of the DNA of Music with “Hope.” Music Director Steven Schick conducts the orchestra, chorus, and guest artists soprano Laurinda Nikkel and mezzo-soprano Martha Jane Weaver in Gustav Mahler’s epic Symphony No. 2, “The Resurrection.”
Cellist Maya Beiser and U.S. Premiere Highlight May 2-3 Concerts
La Jolla, Calif.(April 9, 2009) — The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C) presents its fifth in the DNA of Music series with a concert titled Passion. Music Director Steven Schick conducts orchestra, chorus, and special guests in a program that features acclaimed cellist Maya Beiserperforming Elgar’s Cello Concerto, the U.S. premiere of The General drawn from music by Beethoven with text by noted music critic Paul Griffiths,and Beethoven’s moving Elegy for chorus and string orchestra.
“Music & Art in the Afternoon” at Encinitas Library
La Jolla, Calif. (March 31, 2009) — The first in a series of music and art events in support of music education is being presented by the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C). “Music & Art in the Afternoon” will be held on Sunday, April 26, 2009, at 2:30 p.m. in the Community Room of the Encinitas Library.
Rare Concert Staging of Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex” Plus Holst and Debussy
La Jolla, Calif. (February 23, 2009) — The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C) presents its fourth concert of the 54th season continuing a season-long exploration of the “DNA of Music.” In this concert we explore the theme of “Perspective” as Choral Director David Chase conducts an extraordinary program that engages a cast of soloists and divides the chorus in two.
"The Motet Project" Offers Retrospective of Sacred Choral Music
La Jolla, Calif. (January 7, 2009) — La Jolla Symphony Chorus presents and performs The Motet Project - a series of six motets that surveys sacred choral music from the Renaissance to 20th century - at San Rafael Parish Catholic Church, Rancho Bernardo, on Sunday, February 22 at 4:00 pm.
Rare Concert Staging of Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex” Plus Holst and Debussy
La Jolla, Calif. (January 7, 2009) — The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C) presents its fourth concert of the 54th season continuing a season-long exploration of the “DNA of Music.” In this concert we explore the theme of “Perspective” as Choral Director David Chase conducts an extraordinary program that engages a cast of soloists and divides the chorus in two.
A Celebration of the Lincoln-Darwin Bicentennial, Our Sense of Home and Respighi's Rome
La Jolla, Calif. (January 6, 2009) — La Jolla Symphony Chorus continues a season-long exploration of the DNA of Music in a concert titled "Home," with special guests Cecil Lytle and Renee Calvo.
LJS&C Introduces New Sacred Voices Series—"The Motet Project"
La Jolla, Calif. (Nov. 13, 2008) — La Jolla Symphony Chorus presents the first in a new series of Sacred Voices concerts on Saturday, November 22 at St. Paul's Cathedral in Hillcrest followed by a second concert on Sunday, November 23 at St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church in Carlsbad. Both concerts begin at 7:00 p.m.
LJS&C December 6–7 Concert— "Motion"
La Jolla, Calif. (Nov. 13, 2008) — Steven Schick conducts an extraordinary concert featuring works by Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and a West Coast premiere by Evan Ziporyn. Joining us are Evan Ziporyn, Tijuana dance troupe Lux Boreal, and Young Artists Winner Margaret Zhou performing Shostakovich's "Cello Concerto." For more information.
LJS&C Launches 54th Season—The DNA of Music—With Different Concepts of Time and Special Guests red fish blue fish
The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C) presents its first concert of the 54th season the first weekend of November. Music Director Steven Schick, conducting, will take the audience around the world and through different conceptions of time, part of a season-long exploration of the "DNA of Music"&mash;the fundamental building blocks of the musical experience. On the program: Bedrich Smetana's Vltava ("The Moldau"), Toru Takemitsu's From me flows what you call Time, and Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 2.
Legendary Choral Conductor-Composer Alice Parker Leads Concert and Community "Sing" in North County
La Jolla, Calif. (July 28, 2008) - The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C) presents a once-in-a-lifetime choral event - the "Alice Parker Festival"—at St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church in Carlsbad. The Festival begins with a performance of Parker's Melodious Accord, sung by a consortium of six community, school and church choruses, followed by a "Sing" for the entire audience. Both the choral performance and Sing are led by Alice Parker.
LJS&C Mourns Death of Music Director Emeritus Thomas Nee
La Jolla, Calif. (July 14, 2008) - Thomas Nee, who led the La Jolla Symphony for 31 seasons and in that time transformed the orchestra from a modest community ensemble into a semi-professional orchestra , died July 7, in Encinitas, Calif., after a brief illness. He was 87.
Season Concludes in Light with Strauss' "Death & Transfiguration," plus Haydn, Varèse, and the 2008 Thomas Nee Commission
La Jolla, Calif. (May 19, 2008) - A season that began in light concludes in light as Music Director Steven Schick leads the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C) in a concert highlighted by Richard Strauss' Death and Transfiguration, a moving tone-poem about the transfiguration of the human soul. The program opens with the energetic Symphony No. 102 by Franz Joseph Haydn followed by Offrandes—the LJS&C's first performance of music by that great American maverick Edgard Varese, featuring soprano Stephanie Aston. Also on this concert is the premiere of Snow in June by this year's recipient of the Thomas Nee Commission, Taiwanese-born Kueiju Lin.
Two Symphonies from Prague and from Alaska, Dark Waves
La Jolla, Calif. (April 10, 2008) - The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C) presents its fifth concert on the 53rd season in May. Music Director Steven Schick leads the orchestra with two symphonies from Prague: Mozart's Symphony No. 38 written as a salute to the city that had welcomed him so warmly, and from the same city a century later, Dvořák's dark and dramatic Seventh Symphony. The program also features John Luther Adams' Dark Waves, the second Adams' piece performed by the LJS&C this season. Adams will be in attendance at the concert and pre-concert lecture.
LJS&C 2008–2009 Season Announced; The DNA of Music
La Jolla, Calif. (March 13, 2008) - The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C) announces its 2008–09 season—The DNA of Music. The 54th season is one of collaboration, a U.S. and world premiere, exciting guest artists, composers in residence, and an inspiring concert in recognition of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday anniversary and Black History month.
From "Symphony of Psalms" to "Inner Voices," LJS&C Presents a Program of Introspection
La Jolla, Calif. (February 21, 2008) - The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus's (LJS&C) fourth concert of the season, titled "The Inward Gaze," Music Director Steven Schick leads the ensemble in a program of unusual variety. The concert begins with UCSD composer Chinary Ung's Inner Voices followed by Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 6, and the Andante for Strings by American composer Ruth Crawford Seeger. The program concludes with chorus and orchestra in Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms.
La Jolla Symphony & Chorus
The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus enriches cultural life in San Diego through innovative programming featuring ground-breaking, traditional and contemporary classical music. The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus is a San Diego-based nonprofit organization comprised of professional and volunteer musicians from all walks of life, including UCSD students, staff and faculty.
