Saturday, October 23, 2010 - 8 pm Eagle Theatre @ Los Alto High School
201 Almond Ave., Los Alto Map
Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra Benjamin Simon, conductor
Michelle Djokic, cello
Musical Maiden
Experience the joy of music, as abundantly evident in music by Baroque rockstar Jean-Baptiste Lully, the teenaged Felix Mendelssohn, and northern California’s classical bard Lou Harrison. Our maiden is Palo Alto’s own cello virtuosa Michelle Djokic… and yes, we will also perform Schubert’s great Death and the Maiden in a powerful version for string orchestra.
Saturday, December 18, 2010 - 8 pm Eagle Theatre @ Los Alto High School
201 Almond Ave., Los Alto Map
Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Simon, conductor
David Deveau, piano
Happy Birthday, Ludwig
Come celebrate Beethoven’s 240th birthday with PACO, and enjoy his youthful first piano concerto and marvelous “Pastorale” Symphony (No. 6) with us. David Deveau, a world-class performer and teacher, will be making his PACO debut. Also featured will be Pavel Haas’ haunting Study for String Orchestra, one of many masterpieces that emerged from the Terezin concentration camp after World War 2.
Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 8 pm Eagle Theatre @ Los Alto High School
201 Almond Ave., Los Alto Map
Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Simon, conductor
Debra Fong, violin
Viva Vivaldi
Fritz Kreisler, one of the great violin virtuosi of 20th century, wrote his charming Concerto as an homage to Antonio Vivaldi; our sterling soloist, Debra Fong, will also perform Vivaldi’s ever-green Spring from The Four Seasons. Osvaldo Golijov’s Last Rounds was his homage to Astor Piazzolla; it’s a sizzling, tango-inspired work that might have you dancing in the aisles.
Saturday, June 4, 2011 - 8 pm Eagle Theatre @ Los Alto High School
201 Almond Ave., Los Alto Map
Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Simon, conductor
Teddy Abrams, clarinet
Euro Zone
We welcome our friend Teddy Abrams back to PACO with a program of masterpieces from England and Norway. Edvard Grieg’s Holberg Suite and Edward Elgar’s Serenade for Strings are old friends too, and Gerald Finzi’s seldom-heard Bagatelles for Clarinet and String Orchestra will delight you. Our American entry is the world premiere of PACO’s sixth Youth-for-Youth commission, a brand new work for string orchestra by Elizabeth Ogonek, a student at USC’s Thornton School of Music.
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