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San Diego Symphony Season Announcement
A few concerts jump off the page.
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The San Diego Symphony has announced its 2025-26 season. The schedule is, of course, solid but there are a few concerts that jump off the page. Let's take a look.
Upcoming Event
SD Symphony: French Fairytales - Ravel & Debussy
- Friday, October 3, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
- Age Limit: Not available
The season opens on Friday, October 3, with music by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Ravel’s one act opera, The Child and the Magical Spells is the main dish. Gerard McBurney is listed as the director so this appears to at least be a semi-staged production. I love the symphony moving in this direction. San Diego needs more opera and I'll take it wherever I can get it.
Upcoming Event
SD Symphony: Music of the Heavens - Holst’s Planets
- Friday, October 17, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
- Age Limit: Not available
The next concert weekend that stands out is Friday and Saturday, October 17 and 18. Two of my absolute favorite compositions are scheduled. They are The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams and The Planets by Gustav Holst.
Upcoming Event
SD Symphony: Where the Shining Trumpets Blow - Payare Leads Bruckner No. 4
- Friday, November 7, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
- Age Limit: Not available
The very next concert weekend is Gustav Mahler and Anton Bruckner on Friday and Saturday, November 7 and 8. The Mahler is selections from The Boy's Magic Horn and the Bruckner is his Symphony No. 4. I am thrilled to have Bruckner symphonies in back-to-back seasons, his Symphony No.7 is later this year. However, I've heard the Fourth twice. I was hoping for Bruckner’s Symphony No.5 or Symphony No.6. Just like opera, San Diego needs more Bruckner and I'll take whatever I can get.
Hard on the heels of Mahler and Bruckner is violinist Augustin Hadelich playing Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto on Friday and Saturday, November 14 and 15. That might be the greatest back-to-back concert weekends the symphony has ever programmed. I can't wait to hear Hadelich play the greatest violin concerto or all time. We'll, there's also the Beethoven but you know what I mean.
Upcoming Event
SD Symphony: Tales of Enchantment - Hadelich Plays Sibelius
- Friday, November 14, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
- Age Limit: Not available
The hits keep coming the next weekend of November 22. This time it's Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 and Sibelius's Symphony No. 1.
Upcoming Event
SD Symphony: Invocations to the Spirits - Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4
- Saturday, November 22, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
- Age Limit: Not available
The second movement of the Beethoven is one of the most profound pieces of music ever penned. The existential essence of that music is staggering. The Sibelius is cinematic excellence from start to finish.
Video:
Zimerman - Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 4 - II Andante con moto
The final concerts of 2025 are on Saturday and Sunday, December 6 and 7. They feature Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, which is another candidate for greatest of all time, and Pictures at an Exhibition NY Modest Mussorgsky. The Mussorgsky is orchestrated by Ravel.
Upcoming Event
SD Symphony: Drama & Pathos: Goosby Plays Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
- Saturday, December 6, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
- Age Limit: Not available
If the season ended there, it would be a monstrous success. Yet, there is more and more and more. We'll visit the 2026 segment of the season in a future article.
Here's something you might be interested in.
San Diego Symphony Season Announcement
A few concerts jump off the page.
San Diego Symphony Season Announcement
A few concerts jump off the page.
Image created with Adobe Firefly
The San Diego Symphony has announced its 2025-26 season. The schedule is, of course, solid but there are a few concerts that jump off the page. Let's take a look.
Upcoming Event
SD Symphony: French Fairytales - Ravel & Debussy
- Friday, October 3, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
- Age Limit: Not available
The season opens on Friday, October 3, with music by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Ravel’s one act opera, The Child and the Magical Spells is the main dish. Gerard McBurney is listed as the director so this appears to at least be a semi-staged production. I love the symphony moving in this direction. San Diego needs more opera and I'll take it wherever I can get it.
Upcoming Event
SD Symphony: Music of the Heavens - Holst’s Planets
- Friday, October 17, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
- Age Limit: Not available
The next concert weekend that stands out is Friday and Saturday, October 17 and 18. Two of my absolute favorite compositions are scheduled. They are The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams and The Planets by Gustav Holst.
Upcoming Event
SD Symphony: Where the Shining Trumpets Blow - Payare Leads Bruckner No. 4
- Friday, November 7, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
- Age Limit: Not available
The very next concert weekend is Gustav Mahler and Anton Bruckner on Friday and Saturday, November 7 and 8. The Mahler is selections from The Boy's Magic Horn and the Bruckner is his Symphony No. 4. I am thrilled to have Bruckner symphonies in back-to-back seasons, his Symphony No.7 is later this year. However, I've heard the Fourth twice. I was hoping for Bruckner’s Symphony No.5 or Symphony No.6. Just like opera, San Diego needs more Bruckner and I'll take whatever I can get.
Hard on the heels of Mahler and Bruckner is violinist Augustin Hadelich playing Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto on Friday and Saturday, November 14 and 15. That might be the greatest back-to-back concert weekends the symphony has ever programmed. I can't wait to hear Hadelich play the greatest violin concerto or all time. We'll, there's also the Beethoven but you know what I mean.
Upcoming Event
SD Symphony: Tales of Enchantment - Hadelich Plays Sibelius
- Friday, November 14, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
- Age Limit: Not available
The hits keep coming the next weekend of November 22. This time it's Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 and Sibelius's Symphony No. 1.
Upcoming Event
SD Symphony: Invocations to the Spirits - Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4
- Saturday, November 22, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
- Age Limit: Not available
The second movement of the Beethoven is one of the most profound pieces of music ever penned. The existential essence of that music is staggering. The Sibelius is cinematic excellence from start to finish.
Video:
Zimerman - Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 4 - II Andante con moto
The final concerts of 2025 are on Saturday and Sunday, December 6 and 7. They feature Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, which is another candidate for greatest of all time, and Pictures at an Exhibition NY Modest Mussorgsky. The Mussorgsky is orchestrated by Ravel.
Upcoming Event
SD Symphony: Drama & Pathos: Goosby Plays Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
- Saturday, December 6, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
- Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street, San Diego
- Age Limit: Not available
If the season ended there, it would be a monstrous success. Yet, there is more and more and more. We'll visit the 2026 segment of the season in a future article.