‘Pianist Dynasty Battles’

By Desert Star Staff

The San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra will open its 94th concert season on Saturday, February 18, 2023, at 7:30 p.m. with “Mozart, Simon, and Shostakovich.” To be performed at the historic

California Theatre of the Performing Arts, the concert will include three different but related pieces representing three distinct musical periods.

Explained Music Director and Conductor Anthony Parnther, “Our very own San

Bernardino Symphony continue to grow in size, prestige, and technical excellence. By the personal request of many of our core musicians, I selected Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony to open the 2023 season with a resounding bang. In addition to Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Mahler, Shostakovich penned one of the most important and recognizable Fifth Symphonies of all time. Works of this nature require a large and virtuosic group of musicians,