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California Symphony can now be heard by music lovers across the state, thanks to a one-of-a-kind partnership with Classical KDFC in the Bay Area. Broadcasts are on the fourth Sunday of each month, with a break in December.
Tune in to hear past performances, aired in their entirety, which showcase California Symphony as an entertaining and engaging voice for America’s regional orchestras. Concerts feature diverse programming—from masterworks by Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler and Brahms, to pieces by Nat Stookey, Gabriela Lena Frank, and current California Symphony Composer-in-Residence Viet Cuong—while also highlighting Californian talent and rising young soloists.
As someone who now resides in San Francisco, but whose Mexican American roots are in Los Angeles, it is with great pride that these performances will now be heard across the state.”
—Music Director Donato Cabrera
UPCOMING EPISODES
Season 2, Ep. 1: ICONIC BEETHOVEN
On air at KDFC on September 26, 2021 at 8:00 pm
CONDUCTOR Donato Cabrera
GUEST ARTIST Rachel Calloway, Mezzo-Soprano
Beethoven The Creatures of Prometheus Overture
Frank La Centinela y la Paloma (The Keeper and the Dove)
Mahler Lieder (Songs)
Beethoven Symphony No. 5
Original performance date: 09/15/2019
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Season 2, Ep. 2: PASTORAL BEETHOVEN
On air at KDFC on October 24, 2021 at 8:00 pm
CONDUCTOR Donato Cabrera
GUEST ARTIST Alexi Kenney, violin
Smetana Vltava (Die Moldau)
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1
Beethoven Symphony No. 6
Original performance date: 01/20/2018
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Season 2, Ep. 3: MOZART REQUIEM
On air at KDFC on November 28, 2021 at 8:00 pm
MUSIC DIRECTOR Donato Cabrera
GUEST CONDUCTOR Ragnar Bohlin
GUEST ARTISTS San Francisco Conservatory of Music Chorus
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Part Te Deum
Mozart Requiem
Original performance date: 03/17/2018
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Season 2, Ep. 4: RHAPSODY IN BLUE
On air at KDFC on January 23, 2022 at 8:00 pm
CONDUCTOR Donato Cabrera
GUEST ARTIST Charlie Albright, Piano
Stravinsky Scherzo a la russe
Milhaud La creation du monde
Bernstein Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs
Weill A Little Three-Penny Music
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Original performance date: 01/24/2016
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Season 2, Ep. 5: LYRICAL DREAMS
On air at KDFC on February 27, 2022 at 8:00 pm
CONDUCTOR Donato Cabrera
GUEST ARTIST Maria Valdes, Soprano
Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Stookey YTTE (Yield To Total Elation)
Mahler Symphony No. 4
Original performance date: 09/24/2017
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Season 2, Ep. 6: BRAHMS FEST
On air at KDFC on March 27, 2022 at 8:00 pm
CONDUCTOR Donato Cabrera
GUEST ARTISTS Alina Kobialka, violin; Oliver Herbert, cello
Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 6
Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5
Brahms Symphony No. 3
Brahms Concerto for Violin and Cello
Original performance date: 02/01/2020
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Season 2, Ep. 7: POETRY IN MOTION
On air at KDFC on April 24, 2022 at 8:00 pm
CONDUCTOR Donato Cabrera
GUEST ARTISTS Nicholas Phan, tenor; Meredith Brown, horn
Viet Cuong Next Week’s Trees
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings
Original performance date: 05/08/2021, 05/15/2021, 05/22/2021
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Season 2, Ep. 8: BEETHOVEN & BERNSTEIN
On air at KDFC on May 22, 2022 at 8:00 pm
CONDUCTOR Donato Cabrera
GUEST ARTIST Charlie Albright, Piano
Bernstein Overture to Candide
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3
Frank Three Latin-American Dances for Orchestra
Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Original performance dates: 09/23/2018
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EPISODE ONE
Original performance date: 5/4/2014
CONDUCTOR Donato Cabrera
GUEST ARTIST Ilya Yakushev, Piano
COMPOSER D. J. Sparr (2011-2014)
Sparr Dreams of the Old Believers (2014 commission)
Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
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EPISODE TWO
Original performance date: 5/3/2015
CONDUCTOR Donato Cabrera
GUEST ARTIST Adam Golka, Piano
COMPOSER Dan Visconti (2014-2017)
Visconti Breakdown (2015 commission)
Grieg Piano Concerto
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
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EPISODE THREE
Original performance date: 9/18/2016
CONDUCTOR Donato Cabrera
GUEST ARTIST Annie Wu, Flute
COMPOSER Kevin Puts (1996-1999)
Puts Network (1997 commission)
Mozart Flute Concerto in G
Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
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EPISODE FOUR
Original performance date: 1/22/2017
CONDUCTOR Donato Cabrera
GUEST ARTIST Maria Radutu, Piano
COMPOSER Christopher Theofanidis (1994-1996)
Theofanidis Peace, Love, Light YOUMEONE (2002 commission)
Mozart Piano Concerto K. 488
Beethoven Symphony No. 4
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EPISODE FIVE
Original performance date: 5/7/2017
CONDUCTOR Donato Cabrera
GUEST ARTIST Inbal Segev, Cello
COMPOSER Dan Visconti (2014-2017)
Beethoven Coriolan Overture Op. 62
Visconti Tangle Eye, Concerto for Cello & Orchestra (2017 commission)
Bruckner Symphony No. 6
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EPISODE SIX
Original performance date: 5/6/2018
KDFC – Sunday, March 28 at 8:00 PM
CONDUCTOR Donato Cabrera
GUEST ARTIST Haochen Zhang, Piano
COMPOSER Katherine Balch (2017-2020)
Balch like a broken clock (2018 commission)
Sibelius Symphony No. 3
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 830
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EPISODE SEVEN
Original performance date: 5/5/2019
KDFC – Sunday, April 25 at 8:00 PM
CONDUCTOR Donato Cabrera
GUEST ARTIST Robyn Bollinger, violin
COMPOSER Katherine Balch (2017-2020)
Balch Artifacts, Violin Concerto (2019 commission)
Bruckner Symphony No. 7
Mozart Symphony No. 1
Puts Flute Concerto (commissioned by Californians Joe & Bette Hirsch)
Haydn Symphony No. 104
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EPISODE EIGHT
Original performance date: 11/17/2019
KDFC – Sunday, May 23 at 8:00 PM
CONDUCTOR Donato Cabrera
GUEST ARTIST Annie Wu, flute
COMPOSER Kevin Puts (1996-1999)
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