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The USC Thornton Symphony presents a unique concert featuring the pairing of Thornton student soloists and conductors.
Jessica Chang performs Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto with conductor Olivier Ochanine; pianist Georgi Anastasov Slavchev plays Peter Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto under the direction of Abel Delgado; and clarinetist Gi-Hyun Sunwoo performs the Clarinet Concerto by Carl Nielsen with conductor Ivan Aboleya-Montes.
Since its inception in the early 1900s, the USC Thornton Symphony has been a visible artistic presence in the Los Angeles music community. It works regularly with some of the world's greatest conductors, composers and musicians such as Henryk Górecki, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Michael Tilson Thomas, Joan Tower, Jacek Kaspszyk, the Romeros and most recently the late Isaac Stern. This continues a long-standing tradition of collaborations with major figures in the field of music, from Bruno Walter and Leopold Stokowski to Witold Lutoslawski--historic collaborations that define this orchestra as one with tremendous range and ability. Górecki claimed it to be the best musical ensemble he had personally worked with after he conducted his third symphony in the West Coast premiere from the Bovard stage in 1997. Concert highlights of the 2003 season of the Thornton Symphony include a performance with legendary cellist Lynn Harrell on March 7th and a performance of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony under the baton of principal conductor Sergiu Comissiona on April 11th.
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