2024 Masterpiece Series

Brahms, Mendelssohn & Ravel …plus a World Premiere

Saturday, October 5, 2024 at 7 PM
Bank of America Performing Arts Center, Thousand Oaks
Sunday, October 6, 2024 at 3 PM
Rancho Campana Performing Arts Center, Camarillo

The 19th century was an incredible period of folk influence on classical music masters. Brahms, Mendelssohn and Ravel transformed their fascination with local traditions into unrivaled masterpieces. Pacific Festival Ballet dancers enchant as featured soloists for dances of Brahms. Los Angeles-based composer Derrick Skye energetically blends fun with global music influences for a world premiere work written for NWS Concertmaster Alyssa Park.

THE PROGRAM

Michael Christie, conductor
Alyssa Park, concertmaster
Pacific Festival Ballet
   Kim Maselli, director

Brahms | Hungarian Dances, No. 1, No. 3 & No. 10

Ravel | Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra

Derrick Skye | Amalgamation for Violin and Orchestra (World Premiere)
(a New West Symphony commission)

Mendelssohn | Symphony No. 4, “Italian”