This Saturday at 7:30PM at the The Smith Center join Music Director Donato Cabrera, YOUR #LVPhil and guest artists Anthony McGill and Demarre McGill for Cabrera Conducts The Firebird! Get tickets NOW at LVPhil.org/events/the-fir… or by calling 702.749.2000.

We are excited to welcome to the stage Anthony McGill and Demarre McGill,THIS SATURDAY’S featured guest artists for Cabrera Conducts The Firebird! performance. Tickets available at LVPhil.org/events/the-fir… or by calling 702.749.2000. Donato Cabrera

HBD Herbert von Karajan. There are now many videos available of incredibly gifted conductors but, in my opinion, this remains the greatest video document of this very esoteric art form. youtu.be/P1UPPFILPeA?si…

Please join me at ⁦The Smith Center⁩ on Saturday, April 6th at 7:30pm for Kodály's Dances of Galánta, Mason Bates⁩ Cello Concerto, written for and performed by ⁦LV Philharmonic⁩ Artist-In-Residence Joshua Roman. The program ends with Rimsky-Korsakov's brilliant Scheherazade.

Today is #NationalTakeAWalkInTheParkDay in the USA! The photo shows Arnold Schönberg with his daughter Nuria in Central Park New York in 1934.

Happy birthday, Franz Joseph Haydn! Check out my Spotify playlist of some of my favorite recordings of his music!
bit.ly/DCHaydn

Last Word: Five Questions for Donato Cabrera Diablo Magazine trendmag2.trendoffset.com/publication/?i…

'it was a matter of wishful thinking combined with a faith in Salonen’s ability to galvanize Silicon Valley donors who have so far been largely immune to the lure of cultural giving' In other words, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

Concluding California Symphony’s suite of concerts on WFMT's Orchestra Series, we hear Viet Cuong’s Next Week’s Trees, Elgar’s Cello Concerto with Nathan Chan, Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, and Dan Visconti's Tangle Eye, with Inbal Segev exchange.prx.org/pieces/521305

HBD Béla Bartók! open.spotify.com/playlist/0BnDl…

Winds, brass, percussion, and no strings — with one exception. Last weekend, Donato Cabrera led the California Symphony in an eclectic program, including Mozart's 'Gran Partita' that our reviewer described as 'almost teeth-rattling in its intensity.'
sfcv.org/articles/revie… #musicreview

Happy birthday, Sergei Rachmaninoff! Here's a Spotify playlist of some of my favorite recordings. bit.ly/DCRachmaninoff

'Here was another imaginative California Symphony production masterminded by Cabrera.' - SF Classical Voice California Symphony sfcv.org/articles/revie…

The California Symphony's concerts this weekend were extraordinary. Bravo to my colleagues on stage and off, our soloist and concertmaster, Jennifer Cho, and to our incredible audience, who have wholeheartedly signed on to this singular journey upon which we've embarked.

Last night's California Symphony concert was one for the ages. Don't miss this afternoon's repeat performance! californiasymphony.org/shows/mozart-s…

This weekend's well-sold concerts with California Symphony are going to be fun, unique, and rewarding, both for the audience and the orchestra. And with repertoire, known and unknown, that is typically overlooked and rarely programmed.

My musings on a long 40-year history with my friend Michael Tilson Thomas, the real maverick.
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Dive into the realm of what could have been with Mozart's genius, exploring the treasures we might have lost and the iconic compositions we wouldn't have, had Mozart and others not reached their full potential.

A great interview with Aubrey Bergauer by Joshua Kosman! California Symphony is now a hotbed of artistic exploration, but we were able to start on this path because of Aubrey's innovative ideas and practices. datebook.sfchronicle.com/classical/sf-a…

Listen to Ep. 2 of California Symphony's on WFMT's Orchestra Series! You'll hear Kodály’s Dances of Galánta, Anna Clyne’s DANCE for Cello and Orchestra, w/ Inbal Segev, Myroslav Skoryk’s Melody and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2 exchange.prx.org/pieces/519623