Series Offers Varied Concerts, Venues

Five Orange County arts presenters and organizations have have announced an Eclectic Orange Festival 1999 series, beginning Oct. 2 at various concert sites.

Some series events have been announced in separate schedules of the collaborators--the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, the Irvine Barclay Theatre, Pacific Symphony, the Laguna Chamber Music Society and the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Prices and sponsorship are indicated. Information: (949) 553-2422.

The Eclectic Orange Festival 1999:

Irvine Barclay Theatre

* Oct. 2, 8 p.m.: Chanticleer, with mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade: Jake Heggie’s “Anna Madrigal Remembers”; works by Villa-Lobos, Mahler, Rachmaninoff and Ginastera; Broadway, folk and French cabaret songs; spirituals. $45-$75. (Sponsored by the Irvine Barclay.)

* Oct. 3, 4 p.m.: Joshua Bell, violin; Edgar Meyer, string bass; Sam Bush, banjo; Mike Marshall, guitar and mandolin. $28-$35. (Sponsored by the Philharmonic Society.)

* Oct. 8-9, 8 p.m.: Les Deux Mondes and Teatro dell’Angolo: West Coast premiere of “Terre Promise” (Promised Land). $15, children; $20, adults. (Irvine Barclay)

* Oct. 12, 8 p.m.: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor: “Early Romantics” program. $28-33. (Philharmonic Society)

* Oct. 14, 8 p.m.: Paco Pen~a and Inti-Illimani: Music of Latin cultures. $28-$35. (Irvine Barclay and Philharmonic Society co-sponsored event.)

* Oct. 17, 4 p.m.: Percussionist Burhan Ocal and the Kronos Quartet collaboration. $24-$28. (Philharmonic Society)

* Oct. 18, 8 p.m.: Guarneri String Quartet: Music of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Sibelius. $23-$28. (Laguna Chamber Music Society and Laguna Chamber Music Society co-sponsored event.)

* Oct. 22-23, 8 p.m.: Eliot Feld’s Ballet Tech: repertory to be announced. Southern California company debut. $28-$32. (Irvine Barclay)

Orange County Performing Arts Center

* Oct. 11, 8 p.m.: Moscow State Radio Symphony; Algis Zhuraitis, conductor; : Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 and Piano Concerto No. 3, with soloist Vladimir Feltsman. $15-$55. (Philharmonic Society)

* Oct. 20-21, 8 p.m.: Pacific Symphony: Carl St.Clair, conductor; Angela Cheng, piano: American music concert: works by Bernstein, Ellington and Gershwin. $18-$50. (Pacific Symphony)

* Oct. 26, 8 p.m.: Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra and Zephyr: Voices Unbound; Lucinda Carver, conductor: Richard Einhorn’s “Voices of Light” played during a screening of Carl Dreyer’s 1928 silent film “The Passion of Joan of Arc.” $20-$38. (Philharmonic Society)

* Oct. 29-30, 8 p.m.: National Symphony; Leonard Slatkin, conductor: “Poetry of Earth/Oedipus Rex,” a multimedia production, combining Bernstein’s last Norton Lecture at Harvard in 1973 and a concert of Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex.” $15-$55. (Philharmonic Society)

* Oct. 31, 3 p.m.: National Symphony; Slatkin, conductor: Music by Haydn, John Adams and Elgar (as completed by Anthony Payne). $15-$55. (Philharmonic Society)

* Nov. 10, 8 p.m.: “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” Music by Johnny Mercer, based on John Berendt’s book. $20-$35. (Philharmonic Society)

Founders Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center

* Nov. 2-6, 8 p.m.: Mikel Rouse’s “Dennis Cleveland.” (West Coast premiere) $25. (Philharmonic Society)

Santa Ana High School Auditorium

* Nov. 16, 8 p.m.: Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, conductor; Ensemble Choreographique Les Fragments Reuniss, Ana Yepes, choreographer and stage director: Purcell’s “King Arthur.” $35-$50. (Philharmonic Society)