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San Diego Symphony Announces 2023-2024 season with Yo-Yo Ma and Michael Tilson Thomas
No stop un-pulled at The San Diego Symphony
Rafael Payare knows what he's about.
The San Diego Symphony has announced their 2023-2024 Jacobs Masterworks Series. This season promises to be a turning point in the organization's evolution under CEO Martha Gilmer. The most obvious element is the grand opening of the revitalized Copley Symphony Hall at The Jacobs Music Center. In recognition of this $125 million project, the symphony claims to be pulling out all the stops. Let’s look and see if all the stops are pulled indeed.
Past Event
SD Symphony Jacobs Masterworks: Payare Leads Mozart & Bruckner
- Friday, January 26, 2024, 8 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
It doesn’t take long to confirm that this is a stop-pulling season. I need look no further than Friday, January 26 & Saturday, January 27, 2024, when the symphony will be performing Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 with music director Rafael Payare conducting. Bruckner was the greatest organist of his day and knew all about pulling out all the stops. This inclusion of this symphony, alone, makes the season a victory for yours truly.
Past Event
SD Symphony Jacobs Masterworks: Mahler's Resurrection & Renewal
- Saturday, November 11, 2023, 8 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
The second weekend of the season has a little piece known as Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2: The Resurrection. You may have heard of this one. This Symphony is a goliath of the symphonic repertoire and features something called The San Diego Symphony Festival Choir. This is a huge development.
Video:
Gustavo Dudamel / SBSOV Mahler: Symphony No. 2
See Rafael Payare performing in the horn section at The BBC Proms in a performance of Mahler’s Second.
For decades The San Diego Master Chorale has been the de facto chorus for the symphony. What is this new Festival Choir? Is it incorporating the Master Chorus? I’m more than intrigued and will be looking for more information on this topic.
Past Event
SD Symphony Jacobs Masterworks: Dvorak & Dawson
- Friday, December 1, 2023, 8 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
Also making an appearance is Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9: From the New World. It feels as though the last time the symphony performed this piece Dave Mustaine of Megadeth was the featured soloist back in 2014 or so. It also feels as if the symphony has done Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 at least nine times since then. I am looking forward to revisiting the new world.
Past Event
SD Symphony Jacobs Masterworks: Hadelich Plays Sibelius
- Friday, January 19, 2024, 8 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
There is one concert that almost seems like it’s too much. That concert is Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto with Pytor Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6: Pathetique. Holy hell. This is the Batman and Robin of post-romanticism. San Diego Augustin Hadelich will be performing the Sibelius.
Past Event
SD Symphony Jacobs Masterworks: Shaham Plays Bates
- Saturday, February 24, 2024, 8 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
Moving on down the line we get Richard Wagner’s Ring without Words as arranged by Lorin Maazel. Maazel has taken Wagner’s 14-hour Norse epic and boiled it down to just over an hour of music. That’s still a great, big, piece of music.
Video:
Richard Wagner The Ring Without Words
The final concert I’d like to mention is Tuesday, May 7, 2024. This is a “Masterworks Special Event”. Yeah, no kidding. The concert consists of Siegfried’s funeral music from Wagner’s *Götterdämmerung”, Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto with Yo-Yo Ma, and then Tchaikovksy’s Symphony No. 5.
Past Event
SD Symphony Jacobs Masterworks: Yo-Yo Ma
- Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 8 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
I think we can confirm now that all the stops are pulled. Oh, and Michael Tilson Thomas is going to conduct in 2024 as well.
Past Event
SD Symphony Jacobs Masterworks: Michael Tilson Thomas & Jean Sibelius
- Saturday, March 23, 2024, 8 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
Here's something you might be interested in.
San Diego Symphony Announces 2023-2024 season with Yo-Yo Ma and Michael Tilson Thomas
No stop un-pulled at The San Diego Symphony
San Diego Symphony Announces 2023-2024 season with Yo-Yo Ma and Michael Tilson Thomas
No stop un-pulled at The San Diego Symphony
Rafael Payare knows what he's about.
The San Diego Symphony has announced their 2023-2024 Jacobs Masterworks Series. This season promises to be a turning point in the organization's evolution under CEO Martha Gilmer. The most obvious element is the grand opening of the revitalized Copley Symphony Hall at The Jacobs Music Center. In recognition of this $125 million project, the symphony claims to be pulling out all the stops. Let’s look and see if all the stops are pulled indeed.
Past Event
SD Symphony Jacobs Masterworks: Payare Leads Mozart & Bruckner
- Friday, January 26, 2024, 8 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
It doesn’t take long to confirm that this is a stop-pulling season. I need look no further than Friday, January 26 & Saturday, January 27, 2024, when the symphony will be performing Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 with music director Rafael Payare conducting. Bruckner was the greatest organist of his day and knew all about pulling out all the stops. This inclusion of this symphony, alone, makes the season a victory for yours truly.
Past Event
SD Symphony Jacobs Masterworks: Mahler's Resurrection & Renewal
- Saturday, November 11, 2023, 8 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
The second weekend of the season has a little piece known as Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2: The Resurrection. You may have heard of this one. This Symphony is a goliath of the symphonic repertoire and features something called The San Diego Symphony Festival Choir. This is a huge development.
Video:
Gustavo Dudamel / SBSOV Mahler: Symphony No. 2
See Rafael Payare performing in the horn section at The BBC Proms in a performance of Mahler’s Second.
For decades The San Diego Master Chorale has been the de facto chorus for the symphony. What is this new Festival Choir? Is it incorporating the Master Chorus? I’m more than intrigued and will be looking for more information on this topic.
Past Event
SD Symphony Jacobs Masterworks: Dvorak & Dawson
- Friday, December 1, 2023, 8 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
Also making an appearance is Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9: From the New World. It feels as though the last time the symphony performed this piece Dave Mustaine of Megadeth was the featured soloist back in 2014 or so. It also feels as if the symphony has done Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 at least nine times since then. I am looking forward to revisiting the new world.
Past Event
SD Symphony Jacobs Masterworks: Hadelich Plays Sibelius
- Friday, January 19, 2024, 8 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
There is one concert that almost seems like it’s too much. That concert is Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto with Pytor Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6: Pathetique. Holy hell. This is the Batman and Robin of post-romanticism. San Diego Augustin Hadelich will be performing the Sibelius.
Past Event
SD Symphony Jacobs Masterworks: Shaham Plays Bates
- Saturday, February 24, 2024, 8 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
Moving on down the line we get Richard Wagner’s Ring without Words as arranged by Lorin Maazel. Maazel has taken Wagner’s 14-hour Norse epic and boiled it down to just over an hour of music. That’s still a great, big, piece of music.
Video:
Richard Wagner The Ring Without Words
The final concert I’d like to mention is Tuesday, May 7, 2024. This is a “Masterworks Special Event”. Yeah, no kidding. The concert consists of Siegfried’s funeral music from Wagner’s *Götterdämmerung”, Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto with Yo-Yo Ma, and then Tchaikovksy’s Symphony No. 5.
Past Event
SD Symphony Jacobs Masterworks: Yo-Yo Ma
- Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 8 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
I think we can confirm now that all the stops are pulled. Oh, and Michael Tilson Thomas is going to conduct in 2024 as well.
Past Event
SD Symphony Jacobs Masterworks: Michael Tilson Thomas & Jean Sibelius
- Saturday, March 23, 2024, 8 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego