Community Newsletter of the Long Beach Symphony
SUMMER 2017, Vol. 1 | No. 5
Come to Eckart Preu’s Inaugural Concert On Saturday, October 7th, your Long Beach Symphony will begin a new era of orchestral music with Maestro Eckart Preu taking the podium for his inaugural concert as new Music Director. All of Long Beach and beyond are invited to gather to welcome him and to enjoy an unforgettable night of music. The concert will feature Concertmaster Roger Wilkie and Principal Cello Cécilia Tsan for their first concerto together. They will dazzle the audience with their performance of Brahm’s Concerto for Violin and Cello. Arrive early and enjoy a party on the plaza of the Long Beach Performing Arts Center. Maestro Preu and Mayor Robert Garcia will join the festivities for this historical night in Long Beach. Food and drink will be available for purchase.
Tickets available now at www.LongBeachSymphony.org.
In This Issue •
Come to Eckart Preu’s Inaugural Concert
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A Letter From the Ovation! President
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Ovation! Council
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Meet Your Ovation! Board
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Thank you Pauline
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Instrument Petting Zoo
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Sizzling Summer Jazz
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Ovation! Tributes
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Tributes & Memorials
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2017 LEXUS Champions for Charity Opportunity Drawing
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20th Annual Long Beach Symphony Golf Classic
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Encore
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2017–2018 Season
Ovation! Volunteers of the Long Beach Symphony A Letter from the Ovation! President
Ovation! Event Volunteer Opportunities Instrument Petting Zoo September 16, 2017 Folk Revival Festival, Rainbow Lagoon Instrument Petting Zoo September 30, 2017 Music Tastes Good Festival Downtown Long Beach Instrument Petting Zoo December 16, 2017 Winter in Willmore Festival Drake Park Toyota Youth Concerts January 31, 2018 Terrace Theater Toyota Youth Concerts February 1, 2018 Terrace Theater Contact Issy Roberts at iroberts@LongBeachSymphony .org to volunteer.
As the Symphony’s 2017‒2018 season is set to open in a few weeks, Ovation’s year is also off and running! I am delighted to serve as this year’s Ovation! President as we enter the exciting “Eckart Era.” It looks to be a fabulous season which translates into fun and engagement for volunteers of Ovation!. I invite you to join us in our wonderful events and opportunities this year as I look forward to seeing and meeting you. It is my hope that each of you will attend or participate in one or more of our events this year. This fall there are several exciting volunteer opportunities in which you can participate. The Instrument Petting Zoo has three outings scheduled at special events in Long Beach which are highlighted in this issue of the Score. An “Ovation! Occasion” trip to the Huntington Library is planned for Thursday, October 19 which will include motor coach transportation, a docent led tour, and lunch. Serving refreshments at symphony rehearsals is always a fun and much appreciated service and a wonderful way to interact with the musicians. In December, volunteering at the Symphony’s Golf Tournament is always a hoot!
But stay tuned – there’s much more to come after the first of the year! Mark your calendar for January 21, 2018 for a new & exciting “Uncorked” event at Friedman’s Appliances. The event will include food stations provided by Ovation! members, wine bar, beer garden, music, prizes, and more. Bobbie Cusato is heading up planning the event with a fabulous committee so it’s an event you won’t want to miss! Watch for details and invitation to come. Looking back at summer, the Instrument Petting Zoo gets a big “shout out” for appearing at eight public libraries and the Sizzling Summer Jazz Concert at Cesar E. Chavez Park, plus a training session before the outings began. Thank you to the Ovation! volunteers who helped with this valuable and rewarding project that takes the instruments out to youngsters in the community.
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As a member benefit this year, we’re instituting concert “Vouchers for Volunteers” (See “Did You Know?” in this issue of The Score.) By volunteering at a Symphony event, you can earn two complimentary vouchers to a Classical or POPS concert of your choice! Ovation’s annual Membership drive took place online for the first time this summer, and membership is still open and ongoing. If you haven’t renewed your membership yet, let us know, or log onto www.LongBeachSymphony.org/support/ovation then complete the membership form to join us.
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Opening Night for the Symphony is Saturday, October 7 at the Terrace Theater with special fanfare so I hope you will be there. Be sure to stop by Ovation’s reception area on the plaza of the Long Beach Performing Arts Center beforehand to say hello to me and fellow Ovation! members! The POPS! season opens the following Saturday, October 14 – you won’t want to miss the newly formatted Arena for POPS! concerts!
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Bravo, Ethel
Ovation! Volunteers of the Long Beach Symphony 2017–2018 Ovation! Council President: Ethel Sanford Past President: Pauline Eade-Sheppard Administrative Secretary: Victoria Chenevey Treasurer: Patricia Salkowski Membership Co-Chairs: Mary Hester, Judy Boland Symphony Staff Liaison: Ben Rubinstein Education Programs Toyota Youth Concerts: Josefa Curtin, Mary McKinley, Marilyn North Instrument Petting Zoo: Ethel Sanford Newsletter Advisors: Renee Simon, Cathryn Smyth Nominating Committee: Pauline Eade-Sheppard Ovation! Occasion/Social: Peggy Lymburner, Sally Boyne, Vickie Sawtelle Parliamentarian: Douglas Smyth Patron Engagement Table: Mary and Steve Lang Coordinator of Volunteers: Bobbie Cusato, Shannon Taylor Personal Communications: Pat Mohler Rehearsal Receptions: Shannon Taylor Tributes/Memorials: Joan Gustafson
Meet Your Ovation! Board by Renee B. Simon Ovation! volunteers manage to gravitate to the service that feels familiar and where they can do what brings a barrel of joy. The perfect match for Ethel Sanford not too long after she retired from teaching kindergarten at Jane Adams school was joining the Instrument Petting Zoo committee. Introducing the youngsters to the orchestra was a natural, she knew how to talk to them and as important, how to talk to the parents. As a teacher, she was delighted to watch the kids as they found wonderment in creating new sounds.
It was Bobbie Cusato who nudged Ethel into joining Ovation! by suggesting she take on a simple task of boosting our telephone tree. After Ethel found the Petting Zoo it was just a slippery slide from chairing that committee to her accepting her newest role as Ovation! President for 2017-2018. But she will not give up her place with the Petting Zoo — too much fun. Besides, attendance keeps growing with more than 100 at a recent presentation. They need her. Ethel’s, husband Tom, and their two young sons arrived in Long Beach in 1966. Tom in time joined the LBSA board as the area of community service he sought. They have been Classical and POPS! subscribers and Ethel is eager to welcome the new Eckart Era. A city, she says, is measured by its arts. The Symphony is so important for our community, as are the music education programs the Symphony and Ovation! bring to our elementary school youngsters. Both Sanford sons and three grandsons live in San Diego which will probably keep Ethel and Tom commuting south often. She has been involved with the Junior League for many years. Her priority for Ovation! will be to attract a host of younger members who will also become active and involved Symphony subscribers.
About Ovation! The mission of this organization shall be to support the programs, policies and goals of the Long Beach Symphony through the coordination and facilitation of volunteer activities.
Ovation! Volunteers of the Long Beach Symphony
Thank you Pauline by Renee B. Simon Our June 2017 Ovation! Council meeting closed out the season and gave us the opportunity to thank Pauline Eade-Sheppard for her two years of service as our Ovation! president. And what a great president she was. Those of you who recall that when Pauline accepted that responsibility, she said her one goal would be to build our membership. Did she ever! Bobbie Cusato, who is great at keeping tabs on such numbers, chaired a little committee of herself, Ethel Sanford, and Renee Simon to surprise Pauline with a thanks for being Ovation’s top notch membership builder. During her term, we added 24 new members – an unheard-of feat for Ovation!. Bobbie designed a poster board display with all the new members’ names. Actually, until only hours before the meeting, the number was just 22 but Bobbie had left spaces for the two newest names that Pauline could herself write in. Ethel had ordered delightful cocktail napkins to recognize the occasion and brought in huge balloons shaped as 22 that we affixed to the poster board display. As the membership item came up on the agenda, the committee of three marched into the room carrying balloons, the list of new members, and cocktail napkins at the ready as we toasted Pauline. It was a festive moment topped only by the day’s election of new officers and our new president, Ethel Sanford.
Ovation! Volunteers of the Long Beach Symphony
Instrument Petting Zoo by Issy Roberts I think I can safely say we had our best summer yet of Instrument Petting Zoo events! We are lucky to have many volunteers selflessly give their time to help inspire a love of music in our community's young families. We had five new Ovation! volunteers participate this year. We were also graced by the presence of talented student musicians from the Long Beach Unified School District and National Charity League who greatly contributed to the presentations with their instrument demonstrations! We visited eight libraries (three new locations) and served over 650 children and parents in just three short months. We received generous donations of good quality instruments to improve our inventory including a clarinet, oboe, trumpet, french horn, and even a saxophone. Many thanks to the Wolfe Family Foundation for helping fund purchases of much needed supplies such as reeds, mouth pieces, and strings. I also want to make a special shout out to Ethel Sanford for all her great work helping coordinate the program and to Miep Van Tyen for jumping in to give a couple presentations. This program is very near and dear to my heart and would not be possible without the help of all our dedicated volunteers, so... THANK YOU! I hope you'll join me throughout the year at one of the many community events. Yours in Music, Issy Roberts
Director of Education & Special Events
Sizzling Summer Jazz at Cesar E. Chavez Park On Saturday, July 15, Principal Trombone Alex Iles and friends took the Cesar E. Chavez Park amphitheater stage to perform favorites by Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Tom Kubis, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, and even Stevie Wonder. The concert took the audience through a jazzy journey through 100 years of jazz! Maestro Eckart Preu enjoyed the concert and made a visit to the Instrument Petting Zoo to interact with and teach the young aspiring musicians who picked up instruments. It was a delightful evening with many new and old friends of the Symphony. Thank you to Willmore City Heritage Association for inviting us to be part of their Season of Live Arts and Music schedule!
Pictured (left to right): Brian Scanlon, saxophone, Nicole Kubis, vocalist and Alex Iles, trombone | Photo credit: Allison Kripp
Alex Iles, trombone | Photo credit: Allison Kripp
Maestro Eckart Preu with a tiny musician
Sizzling Summer Jazz at Cesar E. Chavez Park
Kathleen Irvine | Photo credit: Allison Kripp
Photo credit: Allison Kripp
Photo credit: Allison Kripp
Photo credit: Allison Kripp
Eckart Preu | Photo credit: Allison Kripp
Ovation! Special thanks to the following people who made an Ovation! Tribute in honor of the marriage of Mary Hester and Bob Cash: Maxine Barton-Bauman
Neil and Joanne Irish
John and Marcie Blumberg
Thelma Kieffer
Sally Boyne
Mo and Pat Mohler
Bobbie Cusato
John and Lyn Pohlmann
Joanne France
Tom and Ethel Sanford
Joan Gustafson
William and Vicki Sawtelle
John and Liz Hancock
Dan and Pauline-Eade Sheppard
Leon and Barbara Shoag
Did You Know? by Bobbie Cusato There is a new program for Ovation! members called “Vouchers for Volunteers.” Here is how it works: A concert voucher for 2 tickets will be provided to every Ovation! member who volunteers for approximately a 4-hour block for any of the following: •
Promotional Table at the Terrace Theater
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Toyota Youth Concert Usher
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Family Concert Playground Volunteer
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Instrument Petting Zoo Festivals
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Crescendo
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Golf Tournament
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Lexus Car Opportunity Drawing
Those who have been helping with Instrument Petting Zoo this summer are well on their way to a voucher good for Classical or POPS! concerts – and there’s no limit to the number you can receive! Watch your emails for opportunities to volunteer and earn concert vouchers for helping at Long Beach Symphony events.
Special Events October 7, 2017 Opening Night Pre-concert Party Long Beach Performing Arts Center Plaza October 19, 2017
Ovation! Occasion Huntington Beach Library October 20, 2017 Lexus Champions for Charity Opportunity Drawing Winner to be selected at Symphony offices December 4, 2017 20th Annual Long Beach Symphony Golf Classic Virginia Country Club January 21, 2018 Uncorked Friedman’s Appliances April 7, 2018
Crescendo: Auction & Gala Hotel Maya May 12, 2018
Lexus Opportunity Drawing Long Beach Arena May 12, 2018
Port POPS! Long Beach Arena
Tributes & Memorials Ovation! members have an opportunity to make donations to the Long Beach Symphony in the form of tributes and memorials. Below is the form that can be used to make a donation. Just complete the information below and mail in your donation to the Long Beach, Symphony office at 249 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, 90802. Joan Gustafson, Tributes/Memorial Chair Simply fill out the form below and mail attention to: Joan Gustafson at the Long Beach Symphony office.
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Long Beach Symphony is a 501(c)(3) non-profit operating under Federal Tax ID 95-6004958.
When you make a tribute the amount of the gift will not be disclosed and Ovation is pleased to send an acknowledgment of your gift to the person or family you designate.
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Championship dates: Dec. 6 – Dec. 10, 2017 The winning ticket will be drawn on October 20, 2017. Winner need not be present. *A two-some in the Champions for Charity tournament ($6500 value) including all meals, carts, green fees gift bag and daily tee-prizes, a $1000 travel voucher for accommodations and/or airfare, plus the Long Beach Symphony will pay the federal withholding tax on the winner’s behalf, approx. $2500.
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YES! I want to win a two-some in the LEXUS Champions for Charity! To purchase opportunity tickets, simply return this form along with your check or credit card information. Ticket stubs will be completed for you and your portion of the tickets will be mailed to you upon receipt. Drawing will be on Friday, October 20, 2017, at the Long Beach Symphony offices. For more information, call Issy Roberts at (562) 436-3203 ext. 228 or visit: www.LongBeachSymphony.org/concerts-events/golf ONLY 200 tickets will be sold. Ticket holder need not be present to win.
Mail to: Long Beach Symphony, 249 East Ocean Blvd., Suite 200, Long Beach, CA 90802 Fax to: (562) 491-3599 Email to: iroberts@LongBeachSymphony.org
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❏ MC ❏ Visa ❏ AmEx Exp. Date:__________ Name as it appears on the card: _________________________________________ All proceeds from the drawing go toward Long Beach Symphony’s concerts and music education programs impacting the lives of 24,000 children each year. 2017 LEXUS Champions for Charity package generously donated by Entries must be received by October 15, 2017. Ticket holder need not be present to win. Employees of the Long Beach Symphony and LEXUS, its dealers and dealer associations, and any of their cash or other prizes permitted by winner. Prizes over $5000 are subject to withholding tax which will be paid by the Long Beach Symphony on behalf of the winner. Participants agree to release the Long Beach Symphony and LEXUS from any liability, including without limitation property loss, injury or death resulting from participation in this opportunity drawing or the use of the prize. Participants agree to be bound by the complete rules available at www.LongBeachSymphony.org. Total package valued at $7500, plus applicable withholding taxes (approx. $2475). *suggested price-no purchase or donation required
Join us for our 20th Annual Tournament at Virginia Country Club!
2017 Sponsorship Opportunities Bronze Sponsor - $2,500
Gold Sponsor - $10,000 Three foursomes (12 golfers) Hosted cocktails and buffet for 12 Full-page color ad in the tournament program Prominent signage at tournament Two tee signs with logo on the course VIP seating for golfers at VCC Pro Golf Clinic
Silver Sponsor - $5,000 Two foursomes (8 golfers) Hosted cocktails and buffet for 8 Full-page color ad in tournament program Prominent signage at tournament One tee sign with logo on the course
One Foursome (4 golfers) Hosted cocktails and buffet for 4 Half-page color ad in tournament program One tee sign with logo on the course
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Please return this form to the Long Beach Symphony, 249 East Ocean Blvd., Suite 200, Long Beach, CA 90802 or fax it to (562) 491-3599. Upon receipt, the Long Beach Symphony will send a confirmation and invoice to the attention of the contact person provided on this form.
OR SIGN UP ONLINE AT WWW.LONGBEACHSYMPHONY.ORG For Tournament information, contact Issy Roberts at (562) 436-3203 EXT. 228 or iroberts@LongBeachSymphony.org For Long Beach Symphony information, visit www.LongBeachSymphony.org or call (562) 436-3203 The Long Beach Symphony Orchestra is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Federal Tax I.D. # 95-6004958
Encore: The Legacy Society of the Long Beach Symphony Making a Planned Gift -- What it Means to You and to the Symphony Planned Giving is remembering a charity, like the Long Beach Symphony, in your will or estate plan. What does that mean for the giver? By putting the Foundation for the Long Beach Symphony or the Long Beach Symphony Association in your will or estate plan, you are helping the orchestra effectively plan for its future. The music you love will continue! It means that you may receive tax benefits because of your donation. It means that you become a member of Encore, the Legacy group of donors and the Symphony can show its appreciation for your gift. What does it mean for the Long Beach Symphony? It means that the Symphony can do a better job planning for the future, knowing there are secure funds in the Endowment. It means that in addition to revenue from ticket sales and special events, the Symphony has a yearly donation from the Foundation it can count on as part of its annual budget, enabling the Symphony to reach more adults and more families. What is the difference in giving to the Foundation for the Long Beach Symphony or to the Long Beach Symphony Association? The Foundation for the Long Beach Symphony is a separate entity that manages the funds that are donated for endowment purposes. The corpus is invested and every year the Foundation uses income from its investments to make a donation to the Symphony to be part of its annual budget.
Funds received by the Long Beach Symphony Association are used for current operating expenses, such as underwriting a concert or education program for a particular year. We would be happy to send you a Planned Giving brochure that includes a form you may wish to fill out and return to the Symphony, indicating your interest in Planned Giving. Or, call Genevieve Macias at 562.436.3203 ext. 226 or email her at gmacias@LongBeachSymphony.org. If you have already included the Symphony in your will or estate plan, thank you! Please let the Symphony know so you may be included in the Encore Society events. And, you have the pleasure of knowing you are helping make symphonic music available for generations to come!
Thank you for remembering the Symphony! Margie Masterson, Chair, Planned Giving Committee Long Beach Symphony Board of Directors
SUBSCRIBE TO THE 2017–2018 Classical Series ALL CONCERTS CONDUCTED BY MAESTRO ECKART PREU 10.7.17 | INAUGURAL CONCERT Roger Wilkie, violin | Cécilia Tsan, cello Zemlinsky Brahms Strauss
The Mermaid Concerto for Violin and Cello, op. 102, A minor On the Beautiful Blue Danube, op. 314
11.11.17 | A SALUTE TO HEROES: A VETERANS DAY CONCERT Copland Barber Lowden Still Clyne Grofé
Fanfare for the Common Man Adagio for Strings, op. 11 Armed Forces Salute Symphony No. 2, G minor, Song of a New Race Within Her Arms Grand Canyon Suite
2.3.18 | SPANISH NIGHTS WITH PEPE ROMERO Pepe Romero, guitar | Arleen Hurtado, flamenco dancer Chabrier Surinach Sanlúcar Rimsky-Korsakov Bizet
España Ritmo Jondo Medea, Guitar Concerto Capriccio espagnol, op. 34 Carmen Suites No. 1 & 2
3.10.18 | SCOTTISH FANTASY Caroline Goulding, violin | Eric Rigler, bagpipes Bach Mendelssohn Bruch Maxwell Davies
Air on the G String Symphony No. 3, op. 56, A minor, Scottish Scottish Fantasy, op. 46 Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
4.28.18 | PROKOFIEV’S ROMEO & JULIET Benjamin Beilman, violin Strauss Mozart Higdon Prokofiev
Don Juan, op. 20 Violin Concerto No. 3, G major blue cathedral Selections from Romeo and Juliet, Suites No. 1 & 2
6.2.18 | RACHMANINOFF & TCHAIKOVSKY Fei-Fei Dong, piano Glinka Rachmaninoff Tchaikovsky
Kamarinskaya Piano Concerto No. 2, op. 18, C minor Symphony No. 2, op. 17, C minor, Little Russian
Program and artists subject to change.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE 2017–2018 POPS! Series PARTY AT THE POPS! MUSIC • DINNER • DRINKS • FRIENDS • FUN 10.14.17 | LIGHTS, CAMERA, POPS! Ben Rous, conductor | Long Beach Camerata Singers, choir Experience epic film music of the last three decades as the orchestra performs masterpieces from Back to the Future, Cinema Paradiso, Harry Potter, and much more. Plus, a grand John Williams suite featuring Long Beach’s own Camerata Singers!
11.18.17 | A NIGHT AT THE COTTON CLUB Byron Stripling, conductor, vocals & trumpet Carmen Bradford, vocals | Ted Louis Levy, vocals & tap dancer Tap dance back in time to the historic and raucous Cotton Club! Featuring greatest hits by Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters and more!
2.17.18 | THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK - ISN’T IT ROMANTIC? Eckart Preu, conductor Susan Egan, vocals | David Burnham, vocals Bring your Valentine and dance the night away to romantic love songs from the Great American Songbook with the Long Beach Symphony and Broadway stars, Susan Egan and David Burnham. Don't miss your chance to see Maestro Preu make his POPS! debut!
3.17.18 | CELTIC SPIRIT WITH EILEEN IVERS Brian Byrne, conductor | Eileen Ivers, fiddle Celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day with nine time All-Ireland Fiddle Champion and music star of Riverdance, Eileen Ivers. Joined by her band, Immigrant Soul, they will change the way you think about the violin and Celtic music!
5.12.18 | FIESTA FINALE WITH PONCHO SANCHEZ AND HIS LATIN JAZZ BAND Matt Catingub, conductor | Poncho Sanchez, conga Get on your feet and get ready for a high energy evening of music featuring Poncho Sanchez as he reunites with conductor Matt Catingub to present some of the most exciting latin pop and jazz from the past and present!
Subscriptions and tickets available online at www.LongBeachSymphony.org or by calling (562) 436-3203 ext. 1. PRESENTED BY
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Inaugural Concert with Maestro Eckart Preu October 7 at 8:00pm Opening Night plaza activities at 6:30pm Long Beach Performing Arts Center Eckart Preu, conductor Roger Wilkie, violin CĂŠcilia Tsan, cello All of Long Beach is invited to gather as a community to welcome the new Music Director of Long Beach Symphony and to enjoy an unforgettable opening night of music! The concert will feature Concertmaster Roger Wilkie and Principal Cello CĂŠcilia Tsan performing Brahms' glorious Concerto for Violin and Cello. Visit www.LongBeachSymphony.org for tickets!
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