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Ecstasy

Dubravka Tomsic is an invaluable asset to Monterey Symphony, a frequent guest artist, a confidant to the late Joan De Visser and the one to whom was entrusted the selection of Monterey Symphony’s [...]

Date(s):

May 17, 18, 19, 2013

Location(s):

Performances in Salinas & Carmel

Merriment

Fauré, Satie and Ravel are quintessential French impressionists, composers who with a stroke of the pen create images, scenes and vignettes of emotion with the broad palate of the orchestra. [...]

Date(s):

April 19, 20, 21, 2013

Location(s):

Performances in Salinas & Carmel

Revolution

*Saturday, March 23 performance will be at 3:00 pm. Revolution takes many forms. Though a “modern” composer, Rodrigo had nostalgia for courtly music of days long past, which pervades Three [...]

Date(s):

March 22, 23*, 24, 2013

Location(s):

Performances in Salinas & Carmel

Anticipation

A piano can be an orchestra itself in the hands of a master, so like a seventh inning stretch, we give the orchestra a break while the piano plays on. [...]

Date(s):

February 23, 24, 2013

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Performances in Carmel Only - Not Included in Mini-Series Subscriptions*

Play Me, I’m Yours!

  Monterey Herald - Art Project Places Playable Pianos Throughout Monterey County   Huffington Post – Global Public Piano Project Scatters Keys Across Monterey For All To Play   This month, [...]

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Location(s):

Monterey Peninsula & The Central Coast

Introspection

In Toldrá and Turina, we find flower covered hills, shimmering seas and a Bullfighter’s Prayer with all its contemplation and courage evoked in lush and pure strings. Max Bragado-Darman conducts [...]

Date(s):

January 25, 26, 27, 2013

Location(s):

Performances in Salinas & Carmel

Power

From the opening chords of Verdi’s La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) to the return of the majestic brass in Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1, there is no question [...]

Date(s):

November 16, 17, 18, 2012

Location(s):

Performances in Salinas & Carmel

Delicacy

John O’Conor hand-delivers his country’s best kept secret, the music of Irish composer John Field, inventor of the piano nocturne and inspiration to a legion of pianist/composers like Chopin, Brahms [...]

Date(s):

October 19, 20, 21, 2012

Location(s):

Performances in Salinas & Carmel

From Fertile Ground

“Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.” -E.B. White These short masterworks capture the essence of this quote with colors of Czech, French, Hungarian/German and Romanian song. Music [...]

Date(s):

April 21, 22, 23, 2012

Location(s):

Salinas, Carmel

Sunrise in Scotland

With a flair for the dramatic, the newly appointed Music Director of the Staatstheater Hannover, Karen Kamensek, conducts these vignettes of Scotland opening to An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise with local [...]

Date(s):

March 24, 25, 26, 2012

Location(s):

Salinas, Carmel

2002 Arabian Nights

As the story goes, betrayed by his first wife, a Persian king marries one virgin every day only to behead her in the morning…until he meets Sheherazade. An artful storyteller, [...]

Date(s):

February 18, 19, 20, 2012

Location(s):

Salinas, Carmel

George² + Bragado² = “Who Cares?”

Who Cares? Max Bragado-Darman and Julio Bragado-Young care. Along with friends from American Ballet Theater, Paloma Herrera, Maria Riccetto and Gillian Murphy, they deliver a magnificent performance of selections from the ballet by [...]

Date(s):

November 19, 20, 21, 2011

Location(s):

Salinas, Carmel

Lisztomania

The Monterey Symphony, under the direction of Music Director and Conductor Max Bragado-Darman, will present Liszt’s Huldigungs-Marsch and featuring guest artist, Zhengyu Chen, piano, performing Liszt’s Malédiction and Piano Concerto No. 1.  Saint-Saëns’s Symphony [...]

Date(s):

October 22, 23, 24, 2011

Location(s):

Salinas, Carmel