The San Diego Symphony and Music Director Rafael Payare.
In Sunday’s (10/1) San Diego Union-Tribune, George Varga writes, “The San Diego Symphony’s Oct. 13 concert … at Carnegie Hall will undeniably be a celebratory event and a prized new feather in the collective cap of the 113-year-old orchestra. The New York performance will be previewed with a San Diego concert on Saturday at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park. Both will feature Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Carlos Simon’s ‘Wake Up: A Concerto for Orchestra’—which is receiving its San Diego premiere — and Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor, with Alisa Weilerstein as the featured soloist. For some of the symphony’s newer members, the upcoming Carnegie Hall concert marks a heady first. For those musicians who were already aboard when the orchestra made its 2013 debut at the storied Manhattan venue, it’s a most welcome return. About a third of the orchestra’s members will be accompanied on the trip by their partners, children, other family members and friends.” The Oct. 13 performance marks the symphony’s second-ever concert at Carnegie Hall. The article includes profiles of musicians Jing Yan Bowcott, Aaron Blick, Susan Wulff, Hernan Constantino, Pei-Chun Tsai, and librarian Rachel Fields.
