Fairy tales in the LBSO spotlight on March 12
OPERA CLUB
The Long Beach Symphony Orchestra will perform “Peer Gynt (Suite No. 1),” Strauss’ Oboe Concerto and “The Firebird Suite” on March 12 at 8 p.m.
Edvard Grieg’s “Peer Gynt (Suite No. 1)” was originally composed as incidental music to accompany Henrik Ibsen’s play about the titular shiftless rogue of the Norwegian fairy tale.
Principal oboist Rong-Huey Liu is the featured soloist performing one of the last works written by German composer Richard Strauss. She also plays with the Fresno Philharmonic, Reno Chamber Orchestra, Riverside County Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera, New West Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Pasadena Symphony, Reno Philharmonic, SanDiegoSymphony and Santa Barbara Symphony. And Liu has been a studio musician for Jackie Evancho and is the principal oboist for Andrea Bocelli’s annual West Coast touring orchestra. Russian composer Igor Stravinsky wrote “The Firebird Suite” for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company. It was based on the Russian fairy tales of the Firebird, which both blesses and curses its owner. Before the concert begins, Maestro Eckart Preu will discuss the music. The LBSO provides a bus for transportation from Leisure World to the concert and back after the concert concludes. Roundtrip bus tickets cost $20 per person, and concert tickets start at $32 and may be purchased with a credit card online at longbeachsymphony. org or via the box office in person or by phone at (562) 436-3203, ext. 1. Last-minute bus tickets may be purchased at the bus on concert nights with a personal check made out to the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra or with exact change at the bus.
Those riding the bus must be at the Amphitheater bus hub near St. Andrews Drive by 5:30 p.m. for 6 p.m. departure.
Everyone must bring concert tickets or reservations, if possible; evidence of COVID vaccinations; an ID, whether a driver’s license or GRF ID; a mask; and a cell phone.
Contact Beverly Emus at Beverly90740@gmail.com or (562) 296-5586 for more information.
