Out & About San Diego with Jim Frimmer, Your Mission Valley Realtor — The centennial season of the San Diego Symphony

The centennial season of the San Diego Symphony opens this Friday, October 8, at Copley Symphony Hall under the direction of Conductor Jahja Ling.

Although the 2010-2011 season is being promoted as the centennial season, fiscal problems that seem to be inherent to symphonies and opera organizations caused the San Diego Symphony to cancel seasons from 1921-1926, 1936-1948, and from 1996-1998 while it was in bankruptcy. In January 2002, local civic benefactors Irwin and Joan Jacobs, Irwin being a founder of Qualcomm, donated $120 million to the Symphony, the single largest gift ever given to any symphony in the nation, and a gift that has made a significant difference in the life of the Symphony and its members.

The Symphony has a 41-week concert season, including the Winter Pops season conducted by Marvin Hamlisch, who wrote the score for the movies The Sting, The Way We Were, Sophie's Choice, Ordinary People, and several others. Hamlisch is one of only ten people to have been awarded a Grammy, Oscar, Tony, and Emmy, and one of only two people to be awarded those four plus the Pulitzer Prize.

Following is the 2010 part of the centennial season:

• October 8, 9, 10 (Jacobs Masterworks Series)
  Jahja Ling, conductor
  Sir James Galway, flute
  Irwin Jacobs, Bill Walton, and Dan Plante, narrators
  Hamlisch: San Diego (world premiere)
  Mozart: Concerto No. 2 for flute and orchestra
  Bizet/Borne: Carmen Fantasy
  Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor
• October 16 (Winter Pops Special)
  Russ Peck, organ
  Silent Film Night: A Chaplin Quartet - Four Classic Shorts
• October 22, 23, 24 (Jacobs Masterworks Series)
  Bramwell Tovey, conductor
  Philippe Quint, violin
  Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor (New World Symphony)
  Tovey: Urban Runway
  Korngold: Violin Concerto in D
• October 30 (Winter Pops Special)
  Mannheim Steamroller Halloween featuring Chip Davis and the San Diego Symphony
• November 1 (Winter Pops Special)
  Dia de los Mertos
  Mariachi Champana Nevin
  Monica Abrego, soprano
• November 4 (Symphony Exposed)
  Jahja Lin, conductor
  Nuvi Mehta, host
  Robert Plimpton, organ
  Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 in C minor
• November 5, 6, 7 (Jacobs Materworks Series)
  Jahja Ling, conductor
  Garrick Ohlsson, piano
  Robert Plimpton, organ
  Chopin: Variations on La ci darem la mano
  Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor
  Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 in C minor
• November 12, 13 (Winter Pops)
  Marvin Hamlisch, conductor
  One Singular Sensation: Marvin Hamlisch conducts his greatest hits
• November 14 (Family Festival)
  Philip Mann, conductor
  A Symphonic Circus
• November 19, 20, 21 (Jacobs Masterworks Series)
  Jahja Ling, conductor
  Julie Ann Smith, harp
  Jeff Thayer, violin
  Rossini: Overture to William Tell
  Torke: Cactus: Concerto for Harp, Violin, and Orchestra (world premiere)
  Smetana: The Bartered Bride, Three Dances
  Respighi: Pines of Rome
• December 3 (Jacobs Masterworks Special)
  OPUS 2010 Centennial Gala with Yo-Yo Ma
  The U.S. Grant Hotel and Balboa Theatre
  Jahja Ling, conductor
  Yo-Yo Ma, cello
  Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C
  Dvorak: Cello Concderto in B minor
• December 17, 18, 19 (Winter Pops/Holiday Pops)
  Matthew Garbutt, conductor
  Brian Stokes Mitchell, vocals
  San Diego Master Chorale
  San Diego Children's Choir
• December 19 (Family Festival/Holiday Pops)
  Sing-along, holiday favorites, carols, and more
  Matthew Garbutt, conductor

For more information and tickets, call the San Diego Symphony at 619-235-0804 or visit the San Diego Symphony web site. 

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