New Bookings by Pacific Symphony

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: The Miami-based New World Symphony will join the Pacific Symphony and conductor Eduardo Mata, music director of the Dallas Symphony. The program includes Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony, Strauss’s “Don Juan” and Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Weber at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre.

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

--Aug. 27: Keith Clark will conduct Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony and other works at Irvine Meadows.

--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 conduct the Pacific Symphony in Beethoven’s “Pastorale” Symphony instead of Sibelius’ Second Symphony. The rest of the program, to be given at Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, will be as previously announced.

--Nov. 22, 23: Soprano Rita Hunter will replace the originally announced Klara Barlow in a Wagner program conducted by Keith Clark. Barlow had been announced even though no contract had been signed, according to her agent, James Sardos. Sardos also manages Hunter and Clark, among others including basso Jerome Hines, who will appear on the same program as scheduled.

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

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

Information: (714) 973-1300.