Name: Czech Masterpieces And A Saxophone Concerto
Start: 2025-05-03T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-05-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Jacobs Music Center

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San Diego Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Ruth Reinhardt

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Steven Banks

Saxophone

Czech Masterpieces And A Saxophone Concerto

San Diego

United States

Jacobs Music Center

Czech Masterpieces And A Saxophone Concerto: Prodaná nevěsta Smetana (+2 More)

Public

Concert

The Bartered Bride

Albireo Mode

Symphony No. 8 in G Major, op. 88

Jnanakumar P

Approved

Accordionist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Soprano

Singer

Baritone

Bass

Bass-baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Contralto

Tenor

Countertenor

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Ruth Reinhardt returns to lead the Symphony in two delightful works by two Czech masters: the Overture and Three Dances from Smetana’s folk-inspired romantic comedy The Bartered Bride and Dvořák’s infectiously joyous Symphony No. 8, which was conceived and written in the gorgeous green landscape of fields and woods around the small community where Dvořák had his country home. Having grown-up as a country boy in a largely agricultural community, the composer was passionate about the beauties of the rural world, taking pleasure especially in the rich variety of the songs of wild birds, which he would listen to in the little wood at the bottom of his garden. Probably no other symphony in the established repertoire is so full of delicious suggestions of singing birds as this!

And at the center of the concert, something else entirely! Having quickly established himself as one of the leading classical saxophonists today, Steven Banks returns to San Diego to take the Jacobs Music Center stage with famed Japanese composer Takashi Yoshimatsu’s Soprano Saxophone Concerto Albireo Mode. Written nearly 20 years ago, this accessible and gentle music, shot through with the sound of temple bells and the liquid traditions of American free jazz for which Yoshimatsu has a special admiration, takes its title from a famous double star in the Cygnus constellation, and is divided into two movements: the first – "Topaz" – after the precious stone which is often a pale-yellow color, and the second – "Sapphire" – after the familiar dark-blue stone.

English

Czech Masterpieces And A Saxophone Concerto by Smetana, Yoshimatsu, Dvořák, Sun 04 May 2025, From (2025/2025), Conductor Ruth Reinhardt, Jacobs Music Center, San Diego, United States

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