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Trombone & Tuba Time with the Monterey Symphony!
What do you think? Does a concert featuring a work for three trombones and tuba sound like fun? Well, maybe not everybody thought so, for there were some empty seats at Sunday afternoon’s concert by...
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Monterey Symphony Performs Mahler
Hearing a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 (over 70 minutes duration and consisting of five long movements without an intermission) is a bit like reading an epic-sized Edwardian novel with lots...
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Monterey Symphony –“Arabian Nights”
Soprano, Ekaterina Semenchuk “Arabian Nights” was the theme of the Monterey Symphony’s February series of concerts, and for those of us who attended the Sunday afternoon concert at Sunset Center in...
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Monterey Symphony — A Season of Piano
Pianists John O’Conor & Heidi Hau The Monterey Symphony launched its new season this weekend with the first in a series of concerts devoted to “A Season of Piano.” To build its series of programs,...
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Pianist Tanya Gabrielian Performs Khachaturian Concerto with Monterey Symphony
Pianist Tanya Gabrielian and Conductor Max Bragado-Darman Yesterday evening at Sunset Center in Carmel the Monterey Symphony continued the second in its series of this season’s concerts featuring the...
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Monterey Symphony introduces new Soloist
Anna Petrova, Max Bragado-Darman & Thomas Yee The Monterey Symphony under the direction of Max Bragado-Darman continued its 2013 portion of its current season last night at Sunset Center with a...
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Monterey Symphony presents pianist Josu de Solaun in a solo recital
This weekend as an extra bonus concert for regular season subscribers (and as an option for non subscribers) the Monterey Symphony presented Spanish virtuoso pianist Josu de Solaun in solo recitals at...
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Monterey Symphony –“Revolution”
Guest Soloist – pianist Jean Louis Steuerman The Monterey Symphony assigned the theme “Revolution” to its set of concerts for this current weekend. Its official press release stated: “Revolution takes...
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Monterey Symphony –“Merriment”
Matthias Grünewald – “The Temptation of St. Anthony” Although the Monterey Symphony assigned the theme “Merriment” to its April set of concerts (and we concede there were some genuinely amusing...
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Monterey Symphony & Pianist Dubravka Tomsic End the 2012-2013 Season
Dubravka Tomsic & Max Bragado-Darman The Monterey Symphony is ending its 2012-2013 season this weekend with performances at Steinbeck Hall in Salinas and at Sunset Center in Carmel. For the...
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Monterey Symphony Opens 2013-2014 Season
It was a lovely cool Saturday evening with a brilliant full moon rising on the horizon as the parking lot at Sunset Center began to fill up with concertgoers arriving to hear the opening concert of...
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Monterey Symphony presents Amahl and the Night Visitors
It was a magical production of Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors” we enjoyed last night at Sunset Center. This endearing one-act opera, with only one stage set can, in the wrong hands, come off...
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Monterey Symphony — Blockbuster Prokofiev!
Soloist Kun Woo Paik The Monterey Symphony’s concert last night in Sunset Center was a blockbuster! Totally dominating the program was an electrifying performance of the Prokofiev Second Piano...
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Iberia Night at the Symphony
Bassoonist Ignacio Soler Pérez & Conductor Álvaro Cassuto The Iberian Peninsula was well represented in Sunset Center last night as the Monterey Symphony welcomed a distinguished guest conductor...
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Monterey Symphony — Reflection!
Soloists William Wellborn & Heidi Hau How could you ask for a more popular program, or one that would appeal more to all ages and the widest spectrum of audience members? What I am referring to is...
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MIIS & Monterey Symphony – An Evening of the French Masters
Violinist Thomas Yee, pianist Aileen Chanco & cellist Michelle Kwon The Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS), a graduate school of Middlebury College, is an important asset in our...
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Monterey Symphony’s End of Season Concert
Violinist Elmar Oliveira, Cellist Nathaniel Rosen and Max Bragado-Darman It was an exciting evening last night in Sunset Center as the Monterey Symphony, under the direction of Conductor Max...
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Dene Denny & Hazel Watrous – a new Biography by David Gordon Launched
Guests mingle at Harmony House When the Carmel Bach Festival (CBF) throws a party it is certain to be a classy event, and so it was on Saturday afternoon, June 21, when the CBF invited members of the...
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Book Review – Carmel Impresarios: Dene Denny & Hazel Watrous
David Gordon has written a valuable and eminently readable book that is a history of two extraordinary women, Dene Denny and Hazel Watrous, without whose influence the Carmel Bach Festival, the Carmel...
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Monterey Symphony in Season Opener — Fantasia, Live in Concert
At Sunset Center last night the Monterey Symphony cast a magic spell that once again reaffirmed the magic of Disney and the magic of music by presenting a 74-year-old motion picture that broke all the...
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