The
Marin Symphony season (October through April) consists of 10 concerts
offering five programs of meticulously selected and performed classical
music. Our featured works range from time-honored classical favorites
to today's most fresh and innovative compositions.
The guest
soloists we draw typically
have attained worldwide renown, and are frequently regarded as some
of the most exciting and up-and-coming
of today's musical artists.
Our Maestro, Alasdair Neale, is quickly earning an international reputation for
masterfully
insightful and precise interpretations of the classical music repertoire.
Consistently, he creates programs with powerful appeal to today's audiences.
Standing ovations are not uncommon!
The Marin Symphony
- the Accessible Symphony - is proud to give our audience "up
close and personal" access to the stories and people behind the
music. For more information, please read about our Tuesday Night Wrap Parties and our pre-concert talks showcasing the writers who inspired this season's program.
Great Moments in Music History
March 11
1791 -- Franz Joseph Haydn conducts his first concert in London, to huge acclaim.
1851 -- Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto receives its premiere, at Teatro la Fenice in Venice.
1876 -- Birth in East Marion, Massachusetts of maverick American composer Carl Ruggles.
1897 -- The American composer known for his piano 'tone cluster' technique, Henry Cowell, is born in Menlo Park, California.
1903 -- The Metropolitan Opera stages its first performance of an opera composed by a woman: Der Wald (The Forest) by Ethel Smyth.
1911 -- American cellist and conductor Howard Mitchell is born in Lyons, Nebraska. Mitchell conducted the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington from 1949 to 1970.
1917 -- Italian composer Ottorino Respighi's symphonic poem The Fountains of Rome is first performed in Rome.
1960 -- Harpist Anne Adams performs Handel's Concerto in B Flat for Harp and Orchestra with the Marin Symphony.
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