Symphony Summer Features Donath

Distinguished Mozart conductor Klaus Donath will be among the leading lights of the Pacific Symphony’s seventh summer season at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre.

The five-concert series, released late Friday, will open, as usual, on July 4 with a pops-oriented program and close Sept. 24 with a Tchaikovsky program that includes the “1812” Overture. Both programs will have fireworks.

The concerts begin at 8 p.m., and subscriptions, from $80 to $230, go on sale in March. Tickets to individual concerts will be $12 to $48 and will go on sale June 1. Information: (714) 755-5799.

The season:

* July 4: Jack Everly, conductor; the Jim Cullum Jazz Band; singers and tap dancer to be announced: Music by Kern, Berlin, Gershwin; Pacific Symphony composer-in-residence Frank Ticheli’s “Playing With Fire.”

* July 23: Carl St.Clair, conductor; Meng-Chieh Liu, piano: Beethoven’s “Wellington’s Victory” and Symphony No. 8; Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2.

* Aug. 13: Klaus Donath, conductor; Anne-Marie McDermott, piano: Mozart program, including Symphonies No. 32 and 38 (“Prague”); Divertimento in F, K. 138; Piano Concerto No. 21.

* Sept. 3: St.Clair, conductor; Geraldine McMillian, soprano; Peter Lightfoot, baritone; the William Grant Still Chorale: Selections from Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess”; works by Leonard Bernstein, including the Overture to “Candide,” Symphonic Dances from “Westside Story” and Divertimento for Orchestra.

* Sept. 24: Edward Cumming, conductor; Eugene Fodor, violin; Tchaikovsky program, including the Serenade for Strings, “Romeo and Juliet” fantasy overture, Violin Concerto, “1812” Overture.