{"id":156856,"date":"2026-01-30T19:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156856\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:04:11","slug":"san-diego-symphonys-2026-27-season-will-be-rich-with-debuts-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156856\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Symphony\u2019s 2026-27 season will be rich with debuts \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been three years since the San Diego Symphony soared to new heights following the $163 million, top-to-bottom rebuilding of its downtown home, the Jacobs Music Center. But anyone wondering if this 116-year-old orchestra\u00a0 \u2014 the oldest in California \u2014 is considering kicking back even a tiny bit with its upcoming 2026-27 season in its recently renamed Miller Family Theater should think again.<\/p>\n

Nine soloists and six conductors will give their San Diego Symphony debut performances between October and next June. The orchestra\u2019s repertoire will include 15 concertos and 13 symphonies, ranging from Liszt\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 1, Sibelius\u2019 Symphony No. 2 and Copland\u2019s Symphony No. 3 to Prokofiev\u2019s Symphony No. 7, Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s Symphony No. 8 and the ninth symphonies by Beethoven, Bruckner and Dvo\u0159\u00e1k.<\/p>\n

No fewer than 15 pieces of music will be performed by the symphony for the first time. Four of them are by living composers, including the world premiere of Symphony No. 6, \u201cMonarch,\u201d by the orchestra\u2019s composer-in-residence Jimmy L\u00f3pez, which was co-commissioned by the San Diego Symphony.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very important to be doing premieres, debuts of pieces, debuts of artists and debuts of conductors,\u201d said Rafael Payare, the orchestra\u2019s music and artistic director. \u201cIt\u2019s exciting for our audiences and our musicians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those sentiments are shared by San Diego Symphony President and CEO Martha Gilmer, who playfully invoked a children\u2019s campfire music favorite known to several generations of Girl Scouts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like the song, \u2018Make New Friends (but keep the old),\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that there are a number of people who want to come to hear the orchestra regularly, and this is an opportunity for them to get to know some of these new soloists, guest conductors and new composers.\u201d<\/p>\n

San Diego Symphony CEO Martha Gilmer is Musical America\u2019s 2026 Impresario of the Year<\/a><\/p>\n

The 2026-27 lineup includes a varied mix of new and returning guest artists, including cello great Alisa Weilerstein (who is Payare\u2019s wife) and piano stars Yefim Bronfman and Daniil Trifonov. Three of the soloists are longtime symphony members \u2014 concertmaster Jeff Thayer, principal English horn player Andrea Overturf and harpist Julie Phillips, who this year celebrates her 20th anniversary with the symphony.<\/p>\n

Phillips will be featured Feb. 5 and 6 on acclaimed Italian film composer Nino Rota\u2019s Harp Concerto. Overturf will be featured Jan. 17 on Rachmaninoff\u2019s Symphony No. 2, while Thayer \u2014 who is a featured soloist annually with the symphony \u2014 will be featured May 29 on Bart\u00f3k\u2019s Violin Concerto. \u201cWe always want to give our wonderful musicians the spotlight, and we ask them: \u2018What are the pieces that you would like to perform?\u2019\u201d said Payare, who began his orchestral career as a French horn player.<\/p>\n

\u201cBartok\u2019s concertos are fantastic!\u201d said Gilmer, who became the symphony\u2019s president and CEO in 2014. \u201cI don\u2019t think this orchestra played a lot of his music before. They probably played his Concerto for Orchestra a lot, but the other works, not so much. The six concertos Bartok wrote are exquisite. And we are thrilled to feature our symphony musicians as soloists in the coming season.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JimmyJimmy Lopz is the San Diego Symphony\u2019s Composer-in-Residence for its 2026\/27 season. (Anda Chu\/Bay Area News Group)
\nFrom Montreal to San Diego<\/p>\n

The coming season will also offer San Diego audiences their first opportunity here to experience Payare conducting Canada\u2019s L\u2019 Orchestre symphonique de Montr\u00e9al. He became its music director in 2022, a job that sees him dividing his time between San Diego and Montreal.<\/p>\n

Payare\u2019s Oct. 19 concert with the Canadian orchestra will include Stravinsky\u2019s epic The Firebird, Moussa\u2019s Elysium and Tchaikovsky\u2019s Violin Concerto, with Greece\u2019s Leonidas Kavakos as the soloist.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a great opportunity for them to play in our hall and for our orchestra to be able to hear them,\u201d Gilmer, said. \u201cSo, we\u2019re very excited to welcome them and host them here in San Diego.\u201d<\/p>\n

So is Payare, who will also conduct Stravinsky\u2019s The Firebird Suite \u2014 a shorter version of Firebird \u2014 with the San Diego Symphony on March 20 and 21, 2027.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very, very happy that I will be bringing the Montreal orchestra here to our beautiful, world-class concert hall,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

What are the similarities and differences Payare sees between the San Diego Symphony and its Montreal counterpart?<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth are full of musicians, but the Montreal orchestra is an English- and French-speaking orchestra. With both, we dive into the music \u2014 everything we do is about that,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery orchestra has their own, let\u2019s say, personality. An orchestra is like a human being, but a human being made up of 94 people, and that is always a wonderful thing. And the whole idea is that, in the not-too-distant future, I will take the San Diego Symphony to Montreal, so that the audience in Montreal can see and have a taste of our wonderful orchestra. So, I could not be happier.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very important for the orchestra to travel, to tour and to record. The city of San Diego should be proud to have an orchestra of this caliber. And we cannot be selfish! I think the rest of the country and the world should also hear this orchestra.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A native of Venezuela, Payare became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2024 during a ceremony conducted on the stage of the Jacobs Music Center\u2019s concert hall. The name of the hall was quietly changed last fall to the Miller Family Theater at Jacobs Music Center, following a generous behest to the symphony by donors who do not want their full names disclosed or publicized.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, there has been no press release announcing the venue\u2019s renaming. The only visible representation is the understated Miller Family Theater signage to each side of the stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe family had wanted a modest sign and not a lot of attention paid to it, so we\u2019re not putting that in any of our promotions or anything else,\u201d Gilmer said. \u201cThe signage is a nice, quiet acknowledgement, but they\u2019re very private about (their philanthropy). This is a family that has loved music for a long time, including the symphony. And some families prefer anonymity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"RafaelSan Diego Symphony Music and Artistic Director Rafael Payare has led the orchestra since 2019. (Meg McLaughlin \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)
\nBrahms, Beethoven, Mahler<\/p>\n

The 2026-27 season will see Payare conduct nine concerts.<\/p>\n

The first is the season-opening Oct. 3 and 4 performances of Strauss\u2019 \u201cA Hero\u2019s Life\u201d (Ein Heldenleben), Gubaidulina\u2019s \u201cFairytale Poem\u201d (Poema-Skazka) and Mozart\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 24, featuring Yefim Bronfman as the soloist.<\/p>\n

He will also conduct the season-closing 2027 concerts next June 4 and 5. That repertoire will include San Diego Symphony Composer-in-Residence L\u00f3pez\u2019s Symphony No. 6, \u201cMonarch,\u201d and Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 9, featuring soprano Tasha Hokuao Koontz, mezzo-soprano Nikola Printz, tenor Viktor Antipenko and baritone Hansung Yoo.\n<\/p>\n

In between those October and June concerts, Payare will lead the orchestra in seven other concerts. They will feature works by Mahler, Rachmaninoff, Berlioz, Est\u00e9vez, Liszt, Brahms, Elgar, Salonen and others.<\/p>\n

At each concert, Payare hopes to elevate the orchestra\u2019s listeners while engaging in musical communion with them and the orchestra.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe beautiful thing about going to a concert is that you enter a bubble, a different world,\u201d he said, \u201cThis is what we want to offer. We want to make sure that the audience can escape from the normal life things that are happening every day, and get into this world of something completely different.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe music could be centuries old or completely new. It could be about absolute joy, or it could be somber or tragic, and you can almost see it and smell it from the playing of the orchestra. The goal is to always give the audience this kind of unique experience and it\u2019s a wonderful thing to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Payare chuckled when asked to cite a few concerts in the new season that he is especially excited about.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, my god, it\u2019s almost impossible to pick,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re doing Mahler\u2019s Sixth (symphony), which is his darkest of them all, and we\u2019ll be doing Bruckner\u2019s Ninth, which has such a beautiful sound, and I can\u2019t pick between them or any others. Because the thing is, the composers whose music I conduct, I really believe in all of them. It\u2019s never like: \u2018Well, I have to do this piece, and I really don\u2019t like it. \u2018<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes, depending on the length of a concert, I think about: \u2018What would the audience like to explore? So, in that sense there are things that are more suitable or not. The orchestra is playing so wonderfully that I know people will never be disappointed after a concert.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"SanSan Diego Symphony President\/CEO Martha Gilmer and Music and Artistic Director Rafael Payare work closely putting together each new season for the orchestra. (Nelvin C. Cepeda \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)
\nA team effort<\/p>\n

Putting together a symphony season of dozens of concerts by dozens of composers, old and new, is an extended process for Payare, Gilmer and their dedicated team. So is determining which guest soloists and conductors are available and best suited to specific pieces of music.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m always inspired by Rafael\u2019s passion and his \u2018the sky\u2019s the limit\u2019 approach,\u201d Gilmer said. \u201cThere are also times when we can\u2019t do everything we want to and he takes my guidance on that, he listens. We respect one another, and we\u2019re great friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Payare readily agreed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is one of the things that is the most fun and most complicated as well,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause when we have our programming meetings, we spend hours and hours and hours.\u00a0 Because there are so many things that we could do, so we need to trim it a little bit to try to make sure that there is balance and that we give the audience the best opportunity to be with us on this beautiful journey with the orchestra.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like, I don\u2019t want to say a flower, because flowers don\u2019t last that long. But music just blooms and blooms, and it keeps expanding and expanding. So, it is an absolute joy. But sometimes we have to make harder decisions, like: \u2018We cannot do this because there\u2019s not enough time. Or, we will have to wait for our next season to do this.\u2019 And that is always difficult, I have to say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regardless of the music being performed, Payare seeks to remain true to each composer\u2019s intentions while also adding his own stamp to the music.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the whole point all the time,\u201d he said. \u201cThe whole idea of trying to be true to the composer is trying to understand them. But, of course, I\u2019m understanding them through my eyes, so already I am putting an imprint of my own on what I think the composer meant. But that is the case all the time. It doesn\u2019t mean that I have \u2018the truth\u2019 about any piece of music.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes, not even the composer themselves know exactly when they look at a piece. And sometimes, when somebody else performs their piece, the composer is like: \u2018Yeah, that was exactly what I meant,\u2019 even though it maybe deviates a little bit from the score.\u201d<\/p>\n

Orchestras typically rehearse each piece several times, and the give-and-take between the musicians and their conductor to shape the music is vital, Payare said. He laughed when asked if, prior to rehearsing with the orchestra, he practices at home with his baton while listening to recordings of the music.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, everything goes into my head,\u201d Payare said. \u201cAnd normally, if I\u2019m conducting a piece I don\u2019t listen to recordings. I just try to leave everything to kind of form in my head. You don\u2019t practice your endurance (for conducting) like doing cardio in front of a mirror! At least in my case, that\u2019s not how it works for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou try to see what the composer did and everything is sounding in your head. And then, when you are in front of the orchestra, you will hear those sounds and see what needs to be done. Sometimes, you need to balance a theme because you want to achieve certain colors. Sometimes, you get the surprise of something that maybe you were not thinking would be the way it ends up, but it is wonderful to have it that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are many things that happen in your head, but in reality, the sound comes comes from the orchestra. We rehearse and then we offer the music to the audience. That\u2019s the beauty of art, that it is always evolving. It never rests or sits still. And every orchestra is a living organism. So, everything we do together is a beautiful dance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"SanSan Diego Symphony Music and Artistic Director Rafael Payare is shown leading the orchestra at Jacobs Music Center on the opening night of its 2024\/25 season . (Gary Payne)
\nSan Diego Symphony 2026-27 Jacobs Masterworks season<\/p>\n

Saturday, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 4 at 2 p.m.: Gubaidulina\u2019s \u201cFairytale Poem\u201d (Poema-Skazka), Mozart\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 24, Strauss\u2019 \u201cA Hero\u2019s Life\u201d (Ein Heldenleben), featuring music & artistic director Rafael Payare and pianist Yefim Bronfman. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

\"SergeySergey Khachatryan will be the featured soloist on Khachaturian\u2019s Violin Concerto at the San Diego Symphony\u2019s Oct. 10 and 11 concerts. (Marco Borggreve)<\/p>\n

Saturday, Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 11 at 2 p.m.: Khachaturian\u2019s Violin Concerto and Bruckner\u2019s Symphony No. 9, featuring music & artistic director Rafael Payare and violinist Sergey Khachatryan. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

Friday, Oct. 16 at 11 a.m. and Saturday, Oct. 17 at 7:30 p.m.: Debussy\u2019s \u201cNuages\u201d and \u201cF\u00eates\u201d from Nocturnes, L\u00f3pez\u2019s Shift, Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra, Ravel\u2019s Alborada del gracioso, Poulenc\u2019s Suite from Les biches (The Does), Ravel\u2019s Rapsodie espagnole, featuring conductor Ludovic Morlot and trombonist J\u00f6rgen van Rijen. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

Thursday, Oct. 29 at 8 p.m.: San Diego Symphony presents Orchestre Symphonique de Montr\u00e9al performing Moussa\u2019s Elysium, Tchaikovsky\u2019s Violin Concerto and Stravinsky\u2019s The Firebird, featuring music & artistic director Rafael Payare and violinist Leonidas Kavakos. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

\"PianoPiano star Daniil Trifonov will perform for the first time with the San Diego Symphony as part of the orchestra\u2019s 2026\/27 season. (Dario Acosta)<\/p>\n

Saturday, Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 15 at 2 p.m.: Brahms\u2019 Piano Concerto No. 1 and Shostakovich\u2019s Symphony No. 10, featuring music & artistic director Rafael Payare and pianist Daniil Trifonov. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

Friday, Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 22 at 2 p.m.: Liszt\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 6, \u201cTragic,\u201d featuring music & artistic director Rafael Payare and pianist Inon Barnatan. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

Saturday Nov. 28 at 7:30 p.m.: Jazz @ The Jacobs: Gilbert Castellanos performs \u201cMiles Davis: Milestones, Celebrating Miles Davis\u2019s Centennial.\u201d ($30-$82)<\/p>\n

Friday Dec. 4 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m.: Carre\u00f1o\u2019s Margarite\u00f1a, Prokofiev\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 2, Sibelius\u2019s Symphony No. 2, featuring conductor Diego Matheuz and pianist Aristo Sham. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

\"AndreaAndrea Overturf has been the Principal English Horn player for San Diego Symphony since 2009. She will be a featured soloist in the orchestra\u2019s upcoming 2026\/27 season. (Todd Rosenberg)<\/p>\n

Saturday, Jan. 16 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 17 at 2 p.m.: Glinka\u2019s Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla, Rorem\u2019s English Horn Concerto, Rachmaninoff\u2019s Symphony No. 2, featuring conductor Delyana Lazarova and Andrea Overturf, English horn. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

Saturday, Jan. 23 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 24 at 2 p.m.: Smetana\u2019s Overture to the Bartered Bride, Ginastera\u2019s Concierto argentino, Alb\u00e9niz\u2019s Rapsodia espa\u00f1ola, Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s Symphony No. 8, featuring conductor Aziz Shokhakimov and pianist Simon Trp\u010deski. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

Friday, Jan. 29 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m.: Elgar\u2019s Cello Concerto, Berlioz\u2019s Symphonie fantastique, featuring music & artistic director Rafael Payare and cellist Alisa Weilerstein. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

\"SanSan Diego Symphony harpist Julie Phillips this year celebrates her 20th anniversary with the orchestra. and will be the featured soloist at its Feb. 5 and 6 concerts. (Courtesy San Diego Symphony)<\/p>\n

Friday, Feb. 5 at 11 a.m. and Saturday Feb. 6 at 7:30 p.m.: Ravel\u2019s Rigaudon from Le tombeau de Couperin, Rota\u2019s Harp Concerto, Shostakovich\u2019s Symphony No. 5, featuring conductor Andreas Ottensamer and harpist Julie Phillips. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

Saturday, Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m.: Jazz @ The Jacobs: Gilbert Castellanos performs \u201cBillie Holiday: All or Nothing at All.\u201d ($30-$82)<\/p>\n

Saturday, Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 21 at 2 p.m.: Pintscher\u2019s Assonanza for violin & chamber orchestra, Ravel\u2019s Tzigane, rapsodie de concert, Copland\u2019s Symphony No. 3, featuring conductor Matthias Pintscher and violinist Blake Pouliot. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

Saturday, Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 28 at 2 p.m.: Mozart\u2019s Chaconne from Idomeneo, Piano Concerto No. 23, Symphony No. 41, featuring conductor Bernard Labadie and pianist Benedetto Lupo. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

Friday, March 5 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 7 at 2 p.m.: Mendelssohn\u2019s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Tchaikovsky\u2019s The Tempest, Ravel\u2019s Sh\u00e9h\u00e9razade, Debussy\u2019s La mer, featuring conductor Edward Gardner and mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 20 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 21 at 2 p.m.: Ortiz\u2019s Kauyumari, Shostakovich\u2019s Violin Concerto No. 1, Bart\u00f3k\u2019s Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin, Stravinsky\u2019s The Firebird Suite, featuring music & artistic director Rafael Payare and violinist Joshua Brown. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

Friday, March 26 at 11 a.m. and Saturday March 27 at 7:30 p.m.: Est\u00e9vez\u2019s Mediod\u00eda en el llano (Midday on the Plains), Salonen\u2019s k\u00edn\u0113ma, Bernstein\u2019s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Rachmaninoff\u2019s Symphonic Dances, featuring music & artistic director Rafael Payare and Ricardo Morales, clarinet. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

Saturday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m.: Jazz @ The Jacobs: Gilbert Castellanos performs Lee Morgan\u2019s \u201cThe Sidewinder\u201d ($30-$82)<\/p>\n

Saturday, April 10 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 11 at 2 p.m.: Prokofiev\u2019s Symphony No. 7, Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s The Wood Dove, Jan\u00e1\u010dek\u2019s Taras Bulba, featuring conductor Sir Mark Elder. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

Saturday, May 22 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 23 at 2 p.m.: Sibelius\u2019 Pohjola\u2019s Daughter, Grieg\u2019s Piano Concerto, Nielsen\u2019s Symphony No. 5, featuring conductor Osmo V\u00e4nsk\u00e4 and pianist Alessio Bax. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

\"JeffJeff Thayer has been Concertmaster for the San Diego Symphony since 2004. (Todd Rosenberg)<\/p>\n

Saturday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 30 at 2 p.m.: Klein\u2019s Partita for Strings, Bart\u00f3k\u2019s Violin Concerto No. 1, Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s Symphony No. 9 \u201cFrom the New World\u201d, featuring conductor Joshua Weilerstein and violinist Jeff Thayer. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

\"BaritonBariton Hansung Yoo will sing with the San Diego Symphony at its season closing June 2027 concerts. (N. Klinger \/ Courtesy San Diego Symphony)<\/p>\n

Friday, June 4 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, June 5 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 6 at 2 p.m.: L\u00f3pez\u2019s Symphony No. 6, \u201cMonarch\u201d and Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 9, featuring music & artistic director Rafael Payare, soprano Tasha Hokuao Koontz, mezzo-soprano Nikola Printz, tenor Viktor Antipenko, baritone Hansung Yoo, San Diego Symphony Chorus. ($30-$110)<\/p>\n

2026-27 Season subscription packages<\/p>\n

Prices include a $25 subscription fee<\/p>\n

Jacobs Masterworks\u00a0Saturday packages (10 to 20 percent off single tickets)<\/p>\n

Saturday A (17 concerts): $433-$1,521<\/p>\n

Saturday B (8 concerts): $225-$777<\/p>\n

Saturday C (9 concerts): $250-$871<\/p>\n

Saturday D (6 concerts): $187-$619<\/p>\n

Saturday E (5 concerts): $160-$520<\/p>\n

Saturday F (6 concerts): $187-$619<\/p>\n

Jacobs Masterworks Friday packages\u00a0(15 percent off single tickets)<\/p>\n

Friday (3 matinee concerts): $100-$307<\/p>\n

Friday A (5 evening concerts): $150-$495<\/p>\n

Jacobs Masterworks Friday packages (15 to 20 percent off single tickets)<\/p>\n

Sunday A (14 concerts): $361-$1,257<\/p>\n

Sunday B (7 concerts): $200-$683<\/p>\n

Sunday C (7 concerts): $200-$683<\/p>\n

Jazz @ The Jacobs series<\/p>\n

(3 concerts) $106-$247\u00a0(10 percent off single tickets)<\/p>\n

Tickets: Season subscription packages go on sale today, Friday, Jan. 30, at the San Diego Symphony\u2019s downtown box office at 750 B Street, by phone at 619-235-0804 and online at sandiegosymphony.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been three years since the San Diego Symphony soared to new heights following the $163 million,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,7974,967,181,6682,74,84,76,75,420],"class_list":{"0":"post-156856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-classical-music","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-music-and-concerts","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-san-diego-county","15":"tag-san-diego-headlines","16":"tag-san-diego-news","17":"tag-things-to-do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}