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🎸🎻 California Symphony`s Principal Cellist Leighton Fong breaks down why Friedrich Gulda`s Cello Concerto is so cool!
Performed by cellist Nathan Chan, originally from the Bay Area, this piece is a fusion of jazz, rock, and those wind sounds we heard in the Mozart. 🔥
Join California Symphony at the Lesher Center for the Performing Arts January 24 & 25 for SCHUBERT IN VIENNA, conducted by Artistic and Music Director Donato Cabrera.
Which would you chose?
🎶 New music alert! The 2025-26 season features the third and final world premiere by Resident Composer @saadhaddad —whose music has been praised by The New York Times for achieving "a remarkable fusion of idioms" between East and West.
Join California Symphony at the Lesher Center for the Performing Arts. We like to do things a little differently at California Symphony—concerts should be fun!
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From Mozart’s sparkle to Gulda’s iconoclastic cello concerto to Schubert’s soaring “Great” Symphony — this program has range. 🎶✨
With conductor Donato Cabrera and guest soloist @nathanchancello at the Lesher Center.
Come early for the pre-concert talk, grab a cocktail, and enjoy a concert where clapping is encouraged and phones (on silent!) are welcome.
Performances:
Jan 24 • 7:30 PM
Jan 25 • 4:00 PM
🎟️ Buy tickets at our link in bio
📝 Ever wonder how program notes are written? Meet Scott Foglesong, California Symphony`s Program Annotator and Chair of Musicianship and Music Theory at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
He breaks down his process for researching and writing the notes that help you understand what you`re hearing at each concert.
Join California Symphony at the Lesher Center for the Performing Arts for our upcoming concerts. We like to do things a little differently at California Symphony—concerts should be fun!
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