Pacific Symphony Lists Guest Artists, Changes

Pacific Symphony officials have announced the following changes or additions in programming and guest artists in the orchestra’s 1988 summer concert series and 1988-89 classical subscription season:

July 16: At the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, the Miami-based New World Symphony will join the Pacific Symphony as Eduardo Mata, music director of the Dallas Symphony, conducts Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony, Strauss’ “Don Juan” and Hindemith’s “Symphonic Metamorphoses of Themes by Weber.”

Aug. 6: Keith Clark will conduct the Pacific Symphony in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at Irvine Meadows with four local choruses--the Pacific Chorale, the Master Chorale of Orange County, Orange Coast College Choral and the Saddleback Concert Chorale

Aug. 27: Clark will conduct Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony and other works at Irvine Meadows. Originally, a guest conductor was to have appeared.

Sept. 10: The final concert at Irvine Meadows, a Tchaikovsky program, will include the Symphony No. 5.

Nov. 1, 3: Neal Stulberg, music director of the New Mexico Symphony, will lead the Pacific Symphony in Beethoven’s “Pastoral” instead of the originally announced Sibelius Second Symphony. The rest of the program, to be given at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, will remain as announced.

Nov. 23, 24: Soprano Rita Hunter will replace soprano Klara Barlow in a Wagner program conducted by Clark. Barlow had been announced even though no contract had been signed, according to her agent, James Sardos.

March 1, 2, 1989: Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 will be played instead of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. Viktoria Mullova will be soloist and Vakhtang Jordania, music director of the Chattanooga Symphony, will conduct.

May 19, 20: Doc Severinsen will not conduct. The Broadway show music programs will be led by a guest conductor to be announced.

For information, call (714) 973-1300.