Tickets for the Monterey Symphony's 2023-2024 tickets are on sale now. Led by Music Director Jayce Ogren, the concert programming is reflected throughout the Landscapes of this Region.

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Concert Four is “Santa Lucia.” The concert features Pianist Orli Shaham for the Robertson as well as Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 by Mozart.

Concert Five is “Loma Prieta.” At the center of this concert, like the center of the quake that disrupted so many lives, is music about loss. It is an elegiac program -- Adolphus Hailstork’s “Epitaph to a Man Who Dreamed” honors Martin Luther King, Jr., The “Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horns, and Strings” is about ephemerality, night, sleep, and dreams, Arvo Pärt’s “Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten” is written in memory of Britten, and the Vaughan Williams “Symphony No. 3, Pastoral” is about fallen soldiers in World War I.

The Season closes with “Pinnacles.” Austro-Bohemian Composer Gustav Mahler wrote the “Symphony No. 5” during his brief courtship of Alma Schindler in 1901 before their marriage in 1902 and dedicated the symphony to his “Dear Amscherl,” his nickname for his Wife. The symphony has moments of cragginess and melancholy but finishes with ebullient moments of joy and celebration.

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The remaining Performances include the following:

• SANTA LUCIA // Saturday, March 16th at 7:30pm and Sunday, March 17th at 3:00pm
• LOMA PRIETA // Saturday, April 20th at 7:30pm and Sunday, April 21st at 3:00pm
• PINNACLES // Saturday, May 18th at 7:30pm and Sunday, May 19th at 3:00pm

All Performances are at the Sunset Center in Carmel
• San Carols and 9th Avenue

For Tickets, please visit https://www.montereysymphony.org/current-season.htm or call the Symphony Box Office at (831) 646-8511, Monday through Friday, 10:00am to 4:00pm.

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The Monterey Symphony was founded in 1946 and incorporated in 1947. The Symphony’s mission is to entertain and engage our community through musical performance and education.

More information is at www.montereysymphony.org.