Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 4:00 p.m.

Ode to Lou Harrison

Lou Harrison’s Suite No. 2 for Strings     

Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 performed by Rieko Tsuchida

            Brahms’ Symphony No. 2

Relive the unique sounds of renowned Bay Area composer, the late Lou Harrison, whose often-overlooked music was recorded by the California Symphony to critical acclaim in 1997. Conducted by Maestro Barry Jekowsky, Lou Harrison: A Portrait (DECCA/ARGO) was named "CD of the Month" by Gramophone magazine, and praised as "a 40-minute beauty, deeply moving, but also deeply joyoful..." by the Los Angeles Times and "superb" by the Atlantic Monthly. Also, for the first time in its 24-year-history of presenting extraordinarily-gifted young artists from around the nation, the California Symphony will introduce one of Bay Area's best kept secrets: Rieko Tsuchida, a sixteen-year-old San Francisco Conservatory of Music piano student who recently dazzled viewers of PBS's "From the Top" at Carnegie Hall and shared the program with Placido Domingo at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

*Program subject to change.