Berlin, Vienna Orchestras Plan Visits to O.C.
The Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic--two of the world’s top orchestras--will make exclusive West Coast appearances in Costa Mesa as part the 2001-02 season sponsored by the Philharmonic Society of Orange County.
The Berlin Philharmonic will play at the Orange County Performing Arts Center Oct. 15-16 during the society’s third-annual Eclectic Orange Festival.
For the record:
12:00 a.m. Dec. 2, 2000 For the Record
Los Angeles Times Saturday December 2, 2000 Home Edition Calendar Part F Page 2 Entertainment Desk 2 inches; 39 words Type of Material: Correction
Orchestra date--The Berlin Philharmonic last visited Southern California in 1986. An incorrect year was published in an announcement in Friday’s Calendar about the orchestra’s upcoming engagement, in October 2001, at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa.
The Vienna Philharmonic will play at the center March 11-13, 2002.
The programs have not been announced.
“It would be a presenter’s dream to bring either of these orchestras in any season,” society Executive Director Dean Corey said Thursday. “To have them both in the same season is tremendous.”
The Berlin tour, which will include New York, Washington and Chicago, will be the last under the baton of Claudio Abbado, who succeeded legendary conductor Herbert von Karajan as artistic director in 1989. Simon Rattle will take over in 2002.
The 118-year-old orchestra last played Southern California in 1983, at the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena.
The Vienna Philharmonic played two concerts in Orange County in 1997, under the sponsorship of the Philharmonic Society. Daniel Barenboim conducted then; Bernard Haitink, music director of London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, will conduct the 2002 engagement.
Tickets for the concerts will be offered as part of the society’s 2001-02 Masterworks series. Tickets go on sale Feb. 1.
Information: (949) 553-2422. Or https://www.philharmonicsociety.org.
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