Category Archives: Santa Cruz Symphony

Santa Cruz Symphony — A Trio of Concertos

Yesterday afternoon at Mello Center in Watsonville we heard Conductor John Larry Granger, after twenty years of inspired service, conducting the second concert in his last season with the Santa Cruz Symphony. With concertos by Beethoven, Mozart and Tchaikovsky on … Continue reading

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Pianist Adam Nieman Plays Liszt with Santa Cruz Symphony

In a nutshell last weekend, the Santa Cruz County Symphony offered up a delicious serving of musical delicacies beginning with Percy Grainger’s In a Nutshell, an orchestral suite of considerable novelty that included steel and wooden marimba-phones, altered Swiss hand … Continue reading

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Pianist Jon Nakamatsu in Santa Cruz Symphony Benefit

  Appearing Saturday evening, October 30, in a benefit recital for the Santa Cruz Symphony in Cabrillo College’s new recital hall, Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Jon Nakamatsu opened his program with a stunning performance of Clementi’s Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, … Continue reading

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Pianist Jon Nakamatsu & the Santa Cruz Symphony

Maestro Larry Granger certainly knows how to create an “audience pleaser” program. For the latest in the Santa Cruz Symphony series, he served up two perennial favorites: a big bold reading of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 and the Brahms Piano … Continue reading

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Pianist Anton Nel Performs Grieg Concerto in Santa Cruz

Pianist Anton Nel & Maestro John Larry Granger Sometimes at an orchestral concert you can tell right away which works on the program received the most rehearsal time. So it was last night as the Santa Cruz Symphony under the … Continue reading

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