Pasadena Symphony Sets Schedule for Next Season

Pasadena Symphony Music Director Jorge Mester will conduct all eight concerts in the orchestra’s 1999-2000 season, its 72nd. The first concert, Oct. 16, will offer a Suite from Kurt Weill’s “Threepenny Opera,” as well as Carl Orff’s popular “Carmina Burana,” which will feature the Pacific Chorale, the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus and soloists Paula Seibel, Glenn Siebert and Zheng Zhou. That program will be given in Pasadena Civic Auditorium, 300 E. Green St., Pasadena, as will subsequent concerts.

Violinist Philip Quint is soloist in the Nov. 13 concert, playing Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3. Soloist at the Jan. 29 event is soprano Kathleen Roland, in Manuel de Falla’s “El Amor Brujo.” Also on that program is Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11.

Prokofiev, Berwald and Schubert wrote the three symphonies on Mester’s Feb. 26 all-orchestral program. On March 11, pianist Joseph Kalichstein joins the Pasadena orchestra in Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto on a program with works by Brahms and Mahler. Soprano Hila Plitmann sings Britten’s “Les Illuminations” on the April 1 concert, when Mester also conducts a symphony by C.P.E. Bach and Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir de Florence.”

Mester conducts William Schuman’s “New England Triptych” and Silvestre Revueltas’ “La Noche de los Mayas” on May 6, when Joaquin Achucarro is soloist in Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

The season concludes June 10 with a program encompassing Debussy’s “Jeux,” Respighi’s “Rossiniana” and the “Grand Canyon” Suite by Ferde Grofe.

All concerts begin at 8 p.m.

Information: (626) 793-7172.