SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – San Diego Symphony and Music Director Rafael Payare have curated a special 2021 digital season that strives to inspire and connect with its audience while in-person performances cannot occur due to the COVID-19 pandemic. From January to May 2021, the San Diego Symphony will release monthly orchestral virtual concerts featuring Music Director Rafael Payare and San Diego Symphony musicians. The monthly concerts will be livestreamed for at-home viewing launching January 29.
Kicking off the series on Friday, January 29, at 7 p.m. is Wagner Meets Mozart, led by Music Director Rafael Payare. The San Diego Symphony’s brass section resounds throughout Copley Symphony Hall with works by the great opera composer Richard Wagner. The program begins with Wagner’s Prelude to Act III from Die Meistersinger and the deeply moving and powerful Siegfried’s Funeral March from Götterdämmerung. The program closes with Mozart’s intimately charming Symphony No. 29.
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Less than a month after canceling the remainder of its winter and spring in-person concerts for this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the San Diego Symphony has announced the debut of its “special 2021 digital season.”
To be held on the last Friday of each month and led by the orchestra’s music director, Rafael Payare, the online season will kick off Jan. 29 with a “Wagner Meet Mozart” concert. It will be followed Feb. 26 by “Elegy and Serenades,” which pairs works by Mozart and Tchaikovsky with Carlos Simon’s “An Elegy: A Cry From the Grave.” Simon, an Atlanta-based composer, wrote “Grave” in tribute to such slain Black Americans as Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner.
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Three months after it canceled its entire fall 2020 concert season, the San Diego Symphony has announced that COVID-19-induced restrictions has forced the cancellation of in-person performances through May of 2021.
“Since the COVID-19 pandemic closed Copley Symphony Hall at Jacobs Music Center’s doors to audiences in March 2020, the San Diego Symphony has continuously prioritized the health and safety of its musicians, staff, audiences, as well as its social responsibility,” according to a statement released this week. “The organization (has announced) a continued commitment to sharing music virtually while in-person performances cannot occur, with all previously scheduled events canceled through May 2021.”
In a time when so little feels normal, we recognize how important it is to create moments of joy during this holiday season, San Diego Symphony CEO Martha Gilmer said in a news release sent out Thursday, adding, [while] we all obey the stay-at-home orders to collectively overcome COVID-19, we can all unite in experiencing some holiday musical cheer and look forward to being together again in the near future.”
Again, the Noel Noel stream is free for music fans but they ll need to register in advance to take it in all its high-def glory. Can t watch it in real time? The big show will be available on-demand through the end of the month.