Santa Rosa Symphony Credit Susan and Neil Silverman Photo 72dpsThis season, KRCB is proud to present every note of the 2019-2020 Classical Season of the Santa Rosa Symphony. This is the first full season under the baton of music director Francesco Lecce-Chong. Among the many notable aspects of this coming season are appearances by banjo master Bela Fleck, a new work for mariachi and orchestra, and a commissioning project that will bring the First Symphony by one of the nation's most exciting new composers, Matt Browne.
 
(Photo: Santa Rosa Symphony. Credit: Susan and Neil Silverman)
 
If you're a regular visitor to Weill Hall at the Green Music Center, relive the concerts as you heard them. If you're not able to attend in person, we bring you the complete concerts, free of charge to enjoy in your living room or on the go.
 
On the radio, Francesco Lecce-Chong adds commentary to the concerts, for deeper understanding and enjoyment.
 
Here's the schedule for the season's concerts. See you on the radio.
 

SR Symphony on the Air

April 21, 2020

Santa Rosa Symphony, Passion and Power in 2018 Debut

As we shelter in place, enjoy a musical treat from the Santa Rosa Symphony archives. Join us for this special broadcast Sunday, April 26 at 3 pm. By special arrangement with the orchestra, we were able to stream this concert throughout the month of May. We're no longer able to present it on the…
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March 11, 2020

New Symphony, Rach 3 and Happy Birthday Beethoven

[Editor's Note: The Santa Rosa Symphony concerts at Green Music Center scheduled for March 21 through 23 have been postponed. More details here.] On Sunday, March 15 at 3 pm, KRCB FM Radio 91 broadcast the most recent concert from the Santa Rosa Symphony. The February concert begins with a birthday…
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January 31, 2020

Simone Porter Thrills Audience in Sibelius Violin Concerto - Sunday at 3pm

On the program recorded the weekend of January 11 through 13, we’ll be hearing a work written in 2013 by Missy Mazzoli called Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres). Missy Mazzoli is in her second season as composer in residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. We’ll also hear the Symphony Number Two by…
December 30, 2019

Santa Rosa Symphony, SSU Chorus Shine in Mozart Requiem

On Sunday, January 5 at 3 pm join KRCB and host Steve Mencher for a broadcast of the Santa Rosa Symphony performing Mozart's Requiem in D minor, K.626. This is Mozart's final work; it was unfinished at his death. In the past, orchestras have used a version of the piece completed by Mozart's pupil…
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December 02, 2019

Béla Fleck Wows Santa Rosa in Fire-Shortened Concert

Banjo master Béla Fleck came to town as hundreds of thousands in Sonoma County returned to their homes on the heels of the Kincade fire. Due to limited rehearsal time, the orchestra played only one of the four movements of Aaron Copland's Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo. But Fleck played every note…
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October 25, 2019

Beethoven and Strauss Featured in Opening Concert

(Editor's Note: We are pleased to announce that the broadcast of the first classical concert from the Santa Rosa Symphony, which few people were able to hear because of damage to our transmitter during the first days of the Kincade Fire, has been rescheduled to 3:00 pm Sunday, December 22. This is…
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