{"id":298780,"date":"2026-05-04T05:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298780\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T05:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:56:20","slug":"la-jolla-symphony-chorus-2026-27-season-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298780\/","title":{"rendered":"La Jolla Symphony &#038; Chorus 2026-27 Season Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve been sleeping on the La Jolla Symphony &amp; Chorus, the 2026-2027 season \u2013 titled \u201cForces of Nature\u201d \u2013 is a very good reason to wake up. Six concerts, global guest artists, a world premiere, and programming that ranges from Mahler to Indian classical music.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LJSC-4.jpg\" alt=\"La Jolla Symphony &amp; Chorus Forces of Nature\" class=\"wp-image-64534\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>What the Season is All About<\/p>\n<p>Forces of Nature pairs the giants of classical repertoire with bold, living composers from around the world. Music directors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sameerap2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sameer Patel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ArianKhaefi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Arian Khaefi<\/a> have shaped a season that moves through big themes \u2013 resurrection, memory, mortality, transformation \u2013 while pulling in sounds from Romania, India, Austria, and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>All concerts are held at Mandeville Auditorium on the UC San Diego campus, a beautiful space to hear a full orchestra and chorus in action.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"84534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ljsc-Sameer-Patel-1.jpg\" alt=\"La Jolla Symphony &amp; Chorus Sameer Patel\" class=\"wp-image-84534\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"84532\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ljsc-Arian-Khaefi.jpg\" alt=\"La Jolla Symphony &amp; Chorus Arian Khaefi\" class=\"wp-image-84532\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Concerts<\/p>\n<p>The season runs from October through June, with each program built around a distinct mood and theme. Whether you come for one or commit to all six, there\u2019s something here that\u2019s going to stick with you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConfluence\u201d \u2013 October 24-25, 2026: The season opener features sarod virtuoso Ustad Amjad Ali Khan \u2013 one of the most revered figures in Indian classical music \u2013 performing his work Samaagam alongside the orchestra. It\u2019s a cross-cultural collaboration with UCSD\u2019s Qualcomm Institute, rounded out by Dukas\u2019 The Sorcerer\u2019s Apprentice and Enescu\u2019s Romanian Rhapsody No. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Messiah Community Sing \u2013 November 2026 (date\/location TBD): A participatory performance of Handel\u2019s Messiah, where the line between audience and performer gets deliberately blurry. One of the most joyful things you can do with a couple of hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResurrection\u201d \u2013 December 5-6, 2026: Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 2 is one of the great monuments of Western music \u2013 nearly two hours of orchestra, chorus, and soloists moving from existential heaviness to something close to transcendence. Conductor Sameer Patel leads this one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEternal Memory\u201d \u2013 February 6-7, 2027: A world premiere from UCSD composer Haihui Zhang sits alongside Biber\u2019s experimentally brilliant Battalia (1673) and Shostakovich\u2019s gripping Symphony No. 11. Three centuries of music, one through line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeyond the Veil\u201d \u2013 March 13-14, 2027: Rachmaninoff\u2019s Isle of the Dead pairs with Mozart\u2019s Requiem in a program that moves from shadow to light. Conductor Arian Khaefi shapes this one into a meditation on grief and release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrism\u201d \u2013 May 1-2, 2027: San Diego native Claire Chase performs Saariaho\u2019s luminous flute concerto Aile du Songe, surrounded by works from Stravinsky, Webern, Grace-Evangeline Mason, and Strauss. A rich, layered evening of orchestral color.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Sea Symphony\u201d \u2013 June 5-6, 2027: Vaughan Williams\u2019 four-movement closing work for orchestra, chorus, and soloists is about as expansive as symphonic music gets \u2013 a celebration of nature, poetry, and the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ljsc-5-2.jpg\" alt=\"La Jolla Symphony &amp; Chorus\" class=\"wp-image-84539\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Tickets and Pricing<\/p>\n<p>Discounted student tickets are available, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/t4kids.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tix4Kids<\/a> program offers free concert tickets for kids and their caregivers. Dress rehearsals are also open to the public at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>Early-bird subscription packages for the full season are on sale now, with individual tickets going on sale in fall 2026.<\/p>\n<p>See you there!<\/p>\n<p>Whether you subscribe for the full season or pick your favorites, Forces of Nature is shaping up to be a year of music worth showing up for.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc6 October, 2026 through June, 2027 | Saturday evenings, 7:30 PM \u2013 Sunday afternoons, 2 PM<br \/>\ud83d\udccd 9390 Mandeville Ln, La Jolla<br \/>\ud83c\udf9f\ufe0f Lock in your spot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ljsc.org\/concerts\/early-bird-subscriptions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a><br \/>\u2139\ufe0f Find more details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ljsc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See you there, San Diego!<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve been sleeping on the La Jolla Symphony &amp; Chorus, the 2026-2027 season \u2013 titled \u201cForces of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2644,967,23377,330,74,1857,76,75,18100,39756],"class_list":["post-298780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-concerts","tag-entertainment","tag-live-performance","tag-music","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-concerts","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-things-to-see-in-san-diego","tag-what-to-see-in-san-diego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298780","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=298780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}