Grand Opening Night
Saturday, November 4 at 6:30pm
Jacobs Music Center
Music Director Rafael Payare and the Symphony celebrate the Orchestra’s return to Jacobs Music Center in a program that showcases the musicians and the exceptional new aural and visual experience of the venue.
Special Event
Part of the California Festival 2023
Artists and repertoire
Rafael Payare, conductor
Steven Banks, saxophone
Liv Redpath, soprano
R. Strauss: Don Juan
Texu Kim: Welcome Home!! Fanfare for Jacobs Music Center (World Premiere, SDS Commission)
Billy Childs: Saxophone Concerto (West Coast Premiere, SDS Co-commission)
Mozart: Exsultate jubilate
Debussy: La mer
Music Director Rafael Payare and the Symphony celebrate the Orchestra’s return to Jacobs Music Center in a program that showcases the musicians and the exceptional new aural and visual experience of the venue. The kaleidoscopic program begins with Texu Kim’s new fanfare for Jacobs Music Center. The Symphony continues its exploration of Strauss’s epic tone poems with Don Juan, followed by a dazzling Billy Childs West Coast Premiere co-commissioned by the San Diego Symphony, with the charismatic style of soloist Steven Banks. The second half of the program explores Mozart’s festive Exsultate jubilate, where opera sensation Liv Redpath takes center stage, and concludes with the dreamy serenity of Debussy’s illustrious La mer.