What’s Interesting About This Concert
- West Coast Premiere: Next Week’s Trees by Young American Composer-in-Residence Viet Cuong (2020-2023) was inspired by a Mary Oliver poem, Walking to Oak-Head Pond, And Thinking Of The Ponds I Will Visit In The Next Days And Weeks. Presented online in May 2021, the work receives its long anticipated in-person premiere at California Symphony.
- Bay Area native Nathan Chan’s musical career began when he debuted as a conductor with the San Jose Chamber Orchestra at the age of three. He performs Edward Elgar’s soaring and iconic Cello Concerto.
- Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony is his most often performed and beloved symphony. A musical theme representing fate threads through the entire piece, transforming from dark and menacing in the first movement to joyous and triumphant by the fourth and final movement.
Patrons must be fully vaccinated and masks are required. For details, please visit www.californiasymphony.org/COVIDsafety. Thank you for your cooperation!
Making Concerts Fun
This isn’t your grandma’s orchestra! We like to do things a little differently...
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Free pre-concert talk with Maestro Cabrera begins an hour before the show -
Phones on and silent allowed -
Clap when you like what you hear
The Program
CuongNext Week's Trees (West Coast Premiere)
ElgarCello Concerto
TchaikovskySymphony No. 5
Featured Artists
- Composer-in-Residence 2020-23, Viet Cuong
- Artistic and Music Director, Donato Cabrera
- Nathan Chan, Cello
What You'll Hear
Deep Dive
- Tchaikovsky: Conflicted, Neurotic, Brilliant
- The Woman Behind Tchaikovsky
- A Bad Case of Writer’s Block: Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony
- Fate and the Fifth
- Program Notes — EPIC FINALE
- Hornist Meredith Brown on Changing Priorities
- Meet Nathan Chan: Cellist, TikTok Phenom, & Prodigy That’s All Grown Up Now
- View Our Digital Program Book for EPIC FINALE
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