More Information About Kicked-Up Classics Featuring Time for Three

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It’s classics on the wild side! Pacific Symphony’s fourth concert of Summer Festival 2010, sponsored by Hoag Hospital and led by Music Director Carl St.Clair—Kicked-Up Classics—features “newgrass” trio Time for Three, with their patented blend of crossover music. Not your old man’s string trio, Time for Three shatters expectations by blending bluegrass-style fiddling, jazzy bass lines, classical tunes and hip-hop riffs in their high-octane playing. Or as the Wall Street Journal described it: “When the three musicians get together, the resulting mash-up is often equal parts spontaneity and virtuosic precision.” The evening also includes the Symphony’s own Western frontier flavor with American classical favorites: John Williams’ Overture from The Cowboys, Aaron Copland’s Suite from Billy the Kid, and the “American Suite” (arranged by Hedges), with Time for Three.

ALSO—for this concert, the Symphony is asking audience members to turn on their cell phones, as it hosts its first-ever “tweet-cert.” Attendees with access to Twitter may view tweet-size tidbits of information about the music and the featured artists—fiddling trio Time for Three. To add to the excitement, the Time for Three musicians plan to write many of the tweets that are posted during the concert, giving audience members a real insider’s peek into the music.

Pacific Symphony: Carl St.Clair, conductor
Time for Three: Zach De Pue, violin • Nick Kendall, violin • Ranaan Meyer, double bass

Program: 

WILLIAMS: Overture from The Cowboys
TRAD.: "Shenandoah/Foxdown" (arr. Hedges)
— Solo Set with Time for Three —
COPLAND: Suite from Billy the Kid
TRAD.: American Suite (arr. Hedges)

About the Ticket Supplier: Pacific Symphony

Pacific Symphony, celebrating its 33rd season in 2011-12, is led by Music Director Carl St.Clair. The largest orchestra formed in the U.S. in the last 40 years, the Symphony is recognized as an outstanding ensemble making strides on both the national and international scene, as well as in its own burgeoning community of Orange County. Presenting more than 100 concerts a year and a rich array of education and community programs, the Symphony reaches more than 275,000 residents--from school children to senior citizens.

The Symphony offers a popular Pops season led by Principal Pops Conductor Richard Kaufman. The Pops series stars some of the world's leading entertainers, and is enhanced by state-of-the-art video and sound. Each Pacific Symphony season also includes Café Ludwig, a three-concert chamber music series, and "Classical Connections," an orchestral series on Sunday afternoons offering rich explorations of selected works led by St.Clair. Assistant Conductor Maxim Eshkenazy brings a passionate commitment to building the next generation of audience and performer through his leadership of the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra as well as the highly regarded Family Musical Mornings series.

The Symphony offers moving musical experiences with repertoire ranging from the great orchestral masterworks to music from today's most prominent composers, highlighted by the annual American Composers Festival. The Wall Street Journal said, "Carl St.Clair, the Pacific Symphony's dynamic music director, has devoted 19 years to building not only the orchestra's skills but also the audience's trust and musical sophistication so successfully that they can now present some of the most innovative programming in American classical music to its fast-growing, rapidly diversifying community."

In addition to its winter home, the Symphony presents a summer outdoor series at Irvine's Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, the organization's summer residence since 1987.