Pastoral Beethoven
Open Tuesday – Sunday
Closed Monday*
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Tuesday – Sunday: Noon – 6:00pm
Friday – Saturday: Noon – 7:30pm
(925) 943-7469
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Friday – Saturday: Noon – 7:30pm
Sunday: Noon – 6:00pm
1601 Civic Drive
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
*In addition to the hours noted, the Ticket Office is also open one hour prior and thirty minutes after curtain for ticketed performances, including performances on Mondays.
Music Direction by Donato Cabrera
January 20 - 21, 2018
Smetana—Vltava (Die Moldau)
Bruch—Violin Concerto No. 1
Alexi Kenney, violin
Beethoven—Symphony No. 6
Running Time: approx. 1 hours 55 minutes, with one intermission
- Regarded the father of Czech music, Bedrich Smetana [Bed-REECH Smeh-TAH-nah], wrote this short piece named after a river that flows through Prague, in which he gives the flutes a workout.
- Composer Max Bruch wrote over 200 works, with his first violin concerto remaining one of the most popular works for solo violin and orchestra today.
- Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, aka the Pastoral Symphony, was composed at the same time as the famous Fifth, and each movement's title is a sentence by the composer about the outdoor scene he is trying to depict.