SAVE THE DATE!

For Long Beach Symphony’s 25th Annual Golf Classic

Details coming this August.

WHERE:

Virginia Country Club

4602 N. Virginia Road

Long Beach, CA 90807

WHEN:

Monday, December 4, 2023

WHY:

All proceeds from the 25th Annual Long Beach Symphony Golf Classic support the artistic, educational and community engagement programs of the Long Beach Symphony. Long Beach Symphony is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Non-profit tax ID#: 95-6004958.

Dubbed “The Ultimate Disco Party Band,” get your groove on with Classical Night Fever at this 70’s extravaganza and dance in your boogie shoes to the great hits by Barry White, The Commodores, KC and the Sunshine Band, Bee Gees, the Village People, and more. 70’s costumes and hair styles encouraged!

Doors open at 6:30pm for our famous indoor picnicking. Bring your baskets with food, sweets, libations, (dancing shoes!), and even costumes and table decorations!

Celebrate one of the most important bands of all time, Fleetwood Mac. Featuring smash hits like “Go Your Own Way”, “Rhiannon”, “Dreams”, “The Chain”, and – of course – “Landslide”, the combination of core band and singers with your Long Beach Symphony gives audiences the chance to hear the band’s catalog like never before.

Doors open at 6:30pm for our famous indoor picnicking. Bring your baskets with food, sweets, libations, (dancing shoes!), and even costumes and table decorations!

One of the most iconic Rock groups in history, the Rolling Stones are ranked number 4 of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time by Billboard Magazine. A full rock band and singer join your Long Beach Symphony to deliver the greatest hits of this legendary band, including “Satisfaction”, “Ruby Tuesday”, Honky Tonk Women”, “Angie” and many more!

Doors open at 6:30pm for our famous indoor picnicking. Bring your baskets with food, sweets, libations, (dancing shoes!), and even costumes and table decorations!

Ring in the holiday cheer with Byron Stripling’s Holiday Swing! Byron and Sidney McSweeney will light up your holiday stage with their infectious yuletide joy and everyone’s favorite seasonal tunes. Bring the fun, excitement and celebratory spirit to your concert hall as Byron dazzles audiences with his fabulous custom arrangements, virtuosic trumpet playing, vibrant and soulful singing voice, charismatic onstage swagger, and an unforgettable audience sing along. With popular tunes like Joy to the World, Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town, White Christmas, Silent Night and a few swingin’ surprises, audiences will experience one of the best gifts of the season.

Business? Club? Planning a holiday gathering of friends and family? Reserve a table now and make it a true Holiday Party!!

Doors open at 6:30pm for our famous indoor picnicking. Bring your baskets with food, sweets, libations, (dancing shoes!), and even costumes and table decorations!

Return to the era when the Beatles ruled the music world!  The four musicians of Classical Mystery Tour perform the greatest hits from The Beatles’ songbook, joined by the beautiful sounds of your Long Beach Symphony.  Don’t miss this high energy concert as you dance the night away celebrating Beatlemania and the 60^th Anniversary of the first Beatles U.S. tour!

Doors open at 6:30pm for our famous indoor picnicking. Bring your baskets with food, sweets, libations, and even costumes and table decorations!

Welcome June and the leading edge of summer! Our final concert begins with Anton Bruckner’s rousing “Romantic” Symphony, so named by Bruckner himself and inspired by his vision of a day in the life of a medieval village from dawn to dusk. The audience will hear the morning horn call welcoming the day ahead, the thundering hooves of mounted knights departing the castle, the frenzy of a hunt, and the revelry of a village meal and festival to end the long and eventful day. Then, the Symphony closes this concert and its 2023-2024 season with the help of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who gave the world perhaps the second-most well-known four-note opening salvo in the classical music canon with the opening notes of his Piano Concerto no.1, among the most popular and most performed piano concertos. Virtuoso pianist Awadagin Pratt – famed for his formidable technique as well as his love for pranking and colorful concert attire – joins the Symphony for a fiery finish. Don’t miss this scintillating season finale.

Audiences will enjoy the Classical Series fun and elegant evening surrounded by the Terrace’s dazzling fountains and fire pits, live ensemble in the lobby, pre-concert talk to gain greater knowledge regarding the evening programming, and the ability to “Sip & Enjoy” in the concert hall.  

Our March concert bids a fond farewell to the dark days and starry night skies of winter – and, by the way, don’t forget to turn your clocks forward one hour after this concert for Daylight Savings on Sunday, March 10th – with a program that celebrates the nature of the universe, and the place music holds within it. French composer Guillaume Connesson’s fascinating Cosmic Trilogy explores the entire span of existence as we know it, posing question after musical question and offering gorgeous responses. Ralph Vaughn Williams’ Serenade to Music offers a ravishing paean to the music of the spheres, which reportedly brought audience member Igor Stravinsky to tears at its premiere performance. To conclude a mystical evening, prepare to enjoy Johannes Brahms’ magnificent masterpiece for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, his incandescent Deutsches Requiem. Join your Long Beach Symphony for an early celebration of Spring and new beginnings!

Audiences will enjoy the Classical Series fun and elegant evening surrounded by the Terrace’s dazzling fountains and fire pits, live ensemble in the lobby, pre-concert talk to gain greater knowledge regarding the evening programming, and the ability to “Sip & Enjoy” in the concert hall.  

A night of emotional warmth and vibrant colors awaits audiences in this concert program, tailor-made to combat the dark, cold, mid-February winter blues. Concert Overture No.2 by Florence Price, with its welcoming themes from popular Spirituals and more than a passing nod to American patriotism, will get things going. The passion continues when Long Beach Symphony’s own Cécilia Tsan takes center stage in Antonín Dvořák’s ardent cello concerto, beloved both for the deeply felt emotion it evokes in audiences and for the showmanship and mastery it showcases in its soloist. Modest Mussorgsky’s vivid Pictures at an Exhibition completes the evening’s program. Originally composed for piano solo, the stunningly creative work was later arranged for full orchestra forty years after Mussorgsky’s death by Maurice Ravel to immediate and enduring high praise. From the wistful whimsy of The Gnome to the kibbitzing of Two Polish Jews and concluding with the majesty of The Great Gate of Kiev, Mussorgsky’s musical visualization of a Russian gallery of paintings always delights.

Audiences will enjoy the Classical Series fun and elegant evening surrounded by the Terrace’s dazzling fountains and fire pits, live ensemble in the lobby, pre-concert talk to gain greater knowledge regarding the evening programming, and the ability to “Sip & Enjoy” in the concert hall.  

Dancing shoes are the order of the evening in this concert featuring music for the stage and guest appearances by members of the Long Beach Ballet. First, adorable but very naughty bad boy Pulcinella receives Igor Stravinsky’s lighthearted and picaresque orchestral treatment in this musical chronicle narrating our antihero’s narrow escapes whilst pursuing his affairs of the heart. And, be prepared for more effervescent toe-tapping with Leonard Berstein’s joyous Fancy Free, so well-known to audiences everywhere as the thematic core of the classic musical On the Town, and Scott Joplin’s lesser-known but just as trippingly infectious Treemonisha overture. The program also features the fascinating Violin Concerto by multiple-award-winning Indian-American composer Reena Esmail, commissioned by Seattle Symphony and premiered in 2022. Long Beach Symphony welcomes renowned Hindustani violinist Kala Ramnath, for whom this piece was written, to the Terrace Theater as soloist in this mesmerizing, rhythmically captivating tour-de-force for orchestra and violin.

Audiences will enjoy the Classical Series fun and elegant evening surrounded by the Terrace’s dazzling fountains and fire pits, live ensemble in the lobby, pre-concert talk to gain greater knowledge regarding the evening programming, and the ability to “Sip & Enjoy” in the concert hall.