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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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