{"id":445284,"date":"2026-08-27T17:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/445284\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:12:09","slug":"san-diego-symphony-to-launch-first-ever-european-tour-next-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/445284\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Symphony to Launch First-ever European Tour Next Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Thursday\u2019s (8\/27) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/08\/27\/san-diego-symphonys-debut-european-concert-tour-will-put-it-alongside-americas-top-orchestras\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a>, George Varga writes, \u201cThe San Diego Symphony\u2019s announcement today of its 2027 spring concert tour of famed concert halls in Spain, France, Germany and Ireland\u2014the first European tour in the organization\u2019s 116-year history\u2014marks a major step forward \u2026 The tour will run from April 28 to May 6. It includes a May 3 concert in Germany that is part of \u2018America 250,\u2019 a series of concerts at Hamburg\u2019s Elbphilharmonie that will also feature the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Kansas City Symphony. The San Diego Symphony is the only orchestra \u2026 from the West Coast that will perform as part of \u2018America 250.\u2019 That it is doing so on its maiden European tour elevates the five-city concert trek\u2019s significance even higher. \u2018It\u2019s fantastic and I am super excited,\u2019 said San Diego Symphony Music &amp; Artistic Director Rafael Payare \u2026 Martha Gilmer, the symphony\u2019s CEO and president, said \u2026 \u2018The San Diego Symphony has done a (2013) tour of China and performed at Carnegie Hall twice. But a European tour is a hallmark for an American orchestra.\u2019 \u201d The San Diego Symphony will perform in Barcelona, Dublin, Hamburg, Paris, and Toulouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Thursday\u2019s (8\/27) San Diego Union-Tribune, George Varga writes, \u201cThe San Diego Symphony\u2019s announcement today of its 2027&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[52493,74,76,75,33622],"class_list":["post-445284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-artistic-planning","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-venues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445284","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=445284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}