Fallbrook Music Society announces new season

FALLBROOK - Fallbrook Music Society’s 34th anniversary year promises an impressive lineup of powerful symphony performances and outstanding chamber works in its 2011-2012 season featuring a wide array of performances, from the classics to the current.

The new season begins with Fallbrook’s traditional summer concert, the Symphony ‘Pops’ on the Green, Thursday, Aug. 18, featuring the San Diego Symphony. Audience members are encouraged to bring friends and family, picnic dinners, and blankets for this memorable evening of ‘Summer Pops’ under the stars at the exquisite Grand Tradition Estate.

The opening performance of the four-concert Symphony Series will be on Sunday, Oct. 9, and features the Landesjugendorchester (LJO), with 70 of the finest young musicians from Germany, who will play compositions from Beethoven and Bruckner. The highly acclaimed Redlands Symphony, under the baton of Jon Robertson, will perform three concert experiences: Nov. 13 “Unbridled Passion,” with two enduring treasures: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7. The Feb. 12, 2012 concert offers “A Celebration of Love,” with some of the world’s most romantic arias and symphonic love poems; and on May 20, 2012 “Made in America” presents a dynamic concert of works by great American composers such as Michael Daugherty and Duke Ellington.

The two-concert Virtuoso Series lineup offers a different experience in music, beginning on Oct. 23 with the critically acclaimed Spanish Brass, who will present the evocative music of Spain and North and South America. Back by popular demand, noted cellist Jonah Kim will return on March 18, 2012 to command the stage, and enchant the audience with some of the greatest known cello music in the repertoire.

This year’s Christmas concert, on Dec. 4 will be presented by one of Southern California’s finest choral groups, The William Chunestudy Men’s and Mixed Chorus. A cappella works as well as those accompanied by instrumentalists will be featured throughout this concert of the season.

Those who purchase season passes receive many additional benefits in addition to the quality concerts. For ticket information, visit

http://www.fallbrookmusicsociety.org or call (760) 451-8644.