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Our 64th season’s musical theme springs from an important personal memory. Several years ago, I was a guest at a Seder where the light-hearted suggestion was made to go around the room and say our grandmothers’ names. What started as a game quickly became poetic. Hearing all those beautiful, early 20th-century names—Zadie and Pearl or simply Safta or Nonna—touched everyone present. Afterward we spoke about how we were

extending their legacies, and as a corollary, wondered what kind of legacies we were leaving for those who will follow us.

In conceiving this season, I tried to imagine the musical version of that moment. We open with Zosha di Castri’s elegant Lineage, a refl ection on her relationship as a young Canadian composer to her Italian grand-parents. We’ll off er some historically important pieces—Mozart’s scoring of Handel’s beloved Messiah, Stravinsky’s colorful Petrushka and Bruckner’s powerhouse Third Symphony, the latter paired with Philip Glass’s Cello Concerto No. 2 and performed by the amazing Katinka Kleijn.

This season we will feature music by fi ve women composers, including a new work by this year’s Nee Commission recipient, Qingqing Wang, and Florence Price’s too long-overlooked Violin Concerto No. 2, with co-concertmaster David Buckley as soloist. And, you’ll hear Julia Wolfe’s high-octane Fuel, accompanied by a Bill Morrison fi lm. The wonderful La Jolla Symphony Chorus is heard on every other concert, including our March performance of Leonard Bernstein’s extraordinary Symphony No. 3 (Kaddish). We’ll pair that with a classical great, Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony.

The season closes with a refl ection on the composer/soldiers of World War I, from Maurice Ravel to Ralph Vaughan Williams to George Butterworth. Music from the same period by Charles Ives and a favorite by Samuel Barber, the Adagio for Strings, rounds out a season fi nale that is both steeped in memory and full of messages for our own time.

Please join us for a season dedicated to new beginnings, refl ections of the past, and to the lineage we create every day.

Sincerely,

Steven SchickMusic Director

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Looking to the FutureMay 4–5, 2019 Steven Schick, conductorJulia Wolfe Fuel with fi lm by Bill MorrisonCamille Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 5

Soloist: Anne Liu, piano (2017 Young Artists Winner)

CONCERT SPONSORS: Stephen L. Marsh / Dr. James Swift & Suzanne Bosch-Swift

Steven Schick leads a sharply varied program. Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Wolfe has taken particular pleasure in writing music with fi lm, and we hear her Fuel, with a fi lm by Bill Morrison. Sixteen-year-old Young Artists Winner Anne Liu performs Saint-Saëns’ witty Second Piano Concerto, described as “beginning with Bach and ending with Off enbach.” The concert concludes with

Sibelius’ mighty Fifth Symphony, which drives to its triumphant conclusion on six shattering chords for full orchestra.

Remembrance of Things PastJune 8–9, 2019 Michael Gerdes, guest conductorMaurice Ravel La ValseCharles Ives From Hanover Square NorthSamuel Barber Adagio for StringsRalph Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis PacemGeorge Butterworth The Banks of Green Willow

Soloists: Eden Tremayne, soprano; Anthony Whitson-Martini, baritone

CONCERT SPONSORS: Eric & Pat Bromberger / Beda & Jerry Farrell Ida Houby & Bill Miller

We close our season with a refl ection on the composer/soldiers of World War I, from Maurice Ravel to Ralph Vaughan Williams to George Butterworth, whose life was tragically cut short in the war. Music from the same time by Charles Ives and a favorite by Samuel Barber, the Adagio for Strings, rounds out a program that is both steeped in memory and full of messages for our own time.

Young People’s Concert November 2, 2018 (7:00-8:00 p.m.)Mandeville AuditoriumSteven Schick, conductorEVENT SPONSOR: Kiwanis Club of La Jolla

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LineageNovember 3–4, 2018 Steven Schick and Michael Gerdes, conductorsZosha di Castri Lineage Tan Dun Water ConcertoIgor Stravinsky Petrushka

Soloist: Steven Schick, percussion CONCERT SPONSORS: Arleene Antin & Leonard Ozerkis Dr. Robert Engler & Julie Ruedi / Gigi & Bill Simmons

Our 64th season asks questions about lineage: Where do we come from? How does the music of our past inform our understanding of the future? We begin with Lineage, a piece by the young Canadian composer Zosha de Castri, who recalls how her grandmother’s tales shaped her own sense of being Canadian. Stravinsky’s Petrushka was inspired by his memories of Russian Shrovetide fairs in all their color and excitement. Finally, everything on the planet began with water, and in celebration, Music Director Steven Schick relinquishes his baton to solo in Tan Dun’s Water Concerto, with Michael Gerdes conducting.

Celebrating TraditionDecember 8–9, 2018 Steven Schick, conductorFlorence Price Violin Concerto No. 2Qingqing Wang Between Clouds and Streams NEE COMMISSIONG.F. Handel (Mozart arr.) Messiah

Soloists: Danielle Talamentes, soprano (pictured); Mindy Chu, mezzo-soprano; Derek Chester, tenor (pictured); Kerry Wilkerson, bass-baritone; David Buckley, violin CONCERT SPONSORS: Cecil Lytle & Betty McManus / Don & Julie MacNeil

The December concerts tease our sense of memory. We know Messiah very well, but few know that Mozart re-scored Handel’s choral masterpiece for a much larger orchestra, making our performance an “often-heard rarity.” Co-concertmaster David Buckley is soloist in the Second Violin Concerto of Florence Price, a prolifi c African-American composer, who made her long career in Chicago, where her music was championed by the Chicago Symphony in the 1930s. Our collective musical memory is intimately combined with African-American music. Let’s always remember that. And let’s remember that we are a nation of immigrants as we celebrate with the stunning music of Chinese-American composer Qingqing Wang in the 2018 Thomas Nee Commission.

Deep RootsFebruary 9–10, 2019 Steven Schick, conductorLJ White New WorkPhilip Glass Cello Concerto No. 2Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 3

Soloist: Katinka Kleijn, cello

CONCERT SPONSORS: Gary & Susan Brown / Family of Joan Forrest Bob & Judy Gaukel

Katinka Kleijn—champion of new music and a member of the Chicago Symphony—is soloist in Philip Glass’s graceful Second Cello Concerto, drawn from his score to the fi lm Noqoyqatsi. The concert concludes with one of Anton Bruckner’s most compact and attractive symphonies, dedicated to Wagner and full of Bruckner’s glorious writing for brass. Emerging composer LJ White adds to the fun with a new work commissioned by La Jolla Symphony & Chorus.

Bernstein CentennialMarch 16–17, 2019 Steven Schick, conductorLaurie San Martin nights bright daysLudwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 8Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 3 (Kaddish)

CONCERT SPONSORS: Bloor Family / Bill & Cathy Funke Steve & Janet Shields

After meeting Laurie San Martin, one of this country’s most important and ebullient composers, we’ll experience the lightness of a classi-cal great—the seldom-performed Eighth Symphony of Beethoven—and conclude with Leonard Bernstein’s extraordinary and poignant Symphony No. 3 (Kaddish). The Bernstein piece, named for the Jewish prayer for the dead, was dedicated to the

late President John F. Kennedy and premiered in the days after of his assassination in 1963. Featuring chorus, children’s choir, soprano soloist and narrator, it is a refl ection simultaneously on the loss of a president and the loss of a generation of European Jews. This is powerful music, and also hopeful.

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SAVE THESE DATES!GALA 2018: “As Time Goes By”October 6—The Westgate Hotel

CHRISTMAS MESSIAH COMMUNITY SINGDecember 16—St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church

YOUNG ARTISTS COMPETITIONJanuary 26—Conrad Prebys Music Center, UCSD

YOUNG ARTISTS WINNERS RECITALFebruary 24—Private home, La Jolla

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