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“Local & Live” Peninsula Symphony Jazzes it Up!
Taylor Eigsti Jazz Concerts
Sold Out. January 18, 8pm, Fox Theatre, Redwood City
January 19, 8pm, Flint Center/DeAnza College, Cupertino
Don't miss this concert! • Buy your tickets for Saturday at Flint Center
With the New Year just around the corner, new events are in store for the Peninsula Symphony. In January, Grammy-nominated jazz pianist-composer Taylor Eigsti will join the Symphony’s stages for the first time. Eigsti grew up on the Peninsula and has taken the jazz world by storm in his few years on the national and international scene. Peninsula Symphony performances are on January 18 & 19 at the Fox Theatre in Redwood City and the Flint Center in Cupertino. Tickets are $34 for General and $29 for Seniors/Students.
The Symphony will open the program with a jazzy overture by Malcolm Arnold - music from the film "The Roots of Heaven." Then, Eigsti will join the orchestra in a performance of George Gershwin's "I've Got Rhythm" Variations, a charming virtuoso showpiece with some of Gershwin's most inventive writing. Eigsti and his jazz group will then take the stage for a group of his own pieces (including several from the Grammy-nominated CD "Lucky to Be Me"). After intermission, the Symphony returns to play Gershwin's greatest hit, An American in Paris. It's a cheery, rapturously lyrical, jaunty trip through Paris, great fun to play and listen to.
Finally, the Symphony will premiere four new pieces that Eigsti has been working on. “All four of these new works are delightful and engaging piano-orchestra pieces - and I am thrilled that we will be performing them for the first time anywhere with Taylor, his jazz group and the Peninsula Symphony,” remarks Symphony conductor Mitchell Sardou Klein.
The Peninsula Symphony is a 90 member community orchestra in its 59th season, making it one of the oldest, most established symphony orchestras in the Bay Area. Its members are professionally trained musicians, substantially all of whom volunteer their time to the Orchestra. Each year the Orchestra performs 12 concerts in venues from San Mateo to Cupertino. These concerts consist of the annual subscription series, the jazz series, Holiday concerts and a Family Concert. For tickets or more information call (650) 941-5291.
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