Vallejo Symphony begins 80th season after early end to 79th
VALLEJO — The Vallejo Symphony will continue to celebrate its 80th season with a fall and spring concert.
The last two concerts of the 79th season were canceled because of finances.
This season kicked off with a Fourth of July pops concert in Vallejo.
The fall concert is at 8 p.m. Oct. 8 at the Empress Theatre, 330 Virginia St., Vallejo.
Maestro David Ramadanoff will conduct Beethoven’s “The Creatures of Prometheus,” “Concierto de Aranjuez” by Rodrigo featuring Paul Psarras on guitar, and Symphony No. 8 by Beethoven.
Psarras has appeared with the San Francisco Symphony and conductor/composer John Adams in the nativity oratorio El Nino, according to a news release on the event.
In 2010, he was featured on a world-premiere recording of acclaimed Russian composer Sophia Gubaidulian’s “Repentance.”
Psarras is a member of the Pacific Guitar Ensemble.
The pre-concert talk is at 7 p.m.
The spring concert, “Love, Death, and Dance,” is at 3 p.m. March 25, 2012, at Lander Hall, Touro University, Mare Island.
Featured will be the overture to “Semiramide” by Rossini, “Pavane” by Faure and Symphony No. 4 by Brahms.
The pre-concert talk will begin at 2 p.m.
Ramadanoff has been the symphony’s music director since 1983.
The Vallejo Symphony is the seventh-oldest symphony in California, according to its website. It dates back to 1931.
For tickets and more information, call 643-4441 or visit http://www.vallejosymphony.org.
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Posted by Amy Maginnis-Honey
on Jul 6 2011.
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