(Feb 19, 2023)
We met at the Maderos Cocina Mexican Restaurant on PCH in Redondo Beach for a Social Hour and dinner at 4 PM, prior to attending the Peninsula Symphony’s 2nd concert of its 2022-2023 season, in the Redondo Union HS Auditorium at 222 N PCH in Redondo Beach.
The Pre-Concert Lecture was presented by new Conductor David Cubek at 6:15 PM, to discuss the evening’s performance starting at 7 PM. (Thanks to Chuck Klaus for the notes on the program.) The concert theme was “French Rêveries”, with Claude Debussy’s “Prelude à L’après-midi d’un faune”, followed by Maurice Ravel’s “Ma mère l’oye” (Mother Goose), and Georges Bizet’s “Carmen Suites Nos 1 and 2”.
Concert admission is free. Coming concerts will include April 23 (works by Mendelssohn, Mozart, & Schuman) and June 25 (works by Coleridge-Taylor, Dvorak, Ginastera, Piazzolla, & Márquez). The Peninsula Symphony is a non-profit community organization that presents 4 admission-free concerts per year, supported in part by memberships starting at $75/year. For more information and to support this organization, go to http://www.pensym.org/.