Experience the music of the masters, the works of living American composers, the electrifying conducting of Michael Morgan, and the sensational playing of the Oakland East Bay Symphony in the gorgeous glow of the Paramount Theatre!

"Orchestra's new season has 'Follies'"
San Francisco Chronicle, April 23, 2007

"Americana from Oakland Symphony"
San Francisco Chronicle, November 15, 2006

"Gershwin Will Open, Close East Bay Symphony Season"
San Francisco Chronicle, May 5, 2006

"Composer Charts New Territory with Marriage of Classical and Trip-Hop"
San Francisco Chronicle, March 22, 2006

"Galindo's Trade Routes Score Captures Spirit of Oakland's Own Streets"
San Francisco Chronicle, November 22, 2005

"Bernstein's Relic of the '60s Gets a Lush Rebirth"
San Francisco Chronicle, May 24, 2005

"What's That you're Hearing?"
San Francisco Chronicle, February 23, 2005

"Oakland East Bay Symphony Sets Schedule"
San Francisco Chronicle, August 18, 2004

"Patron Keeps Symphony Humming"
San Francisco Chronicle, April 30, 2004

"DJ Spooky Mixes It Up with Oakland Symphony"
San Francisco Chronicle, March 22, 2004

"Conductor Reaches out to the Masses"
San Francisco Chronicle, November 19, 2001

"Oakland Symphony on the Ascent"
San Francisco Chronicle, November 12, 2001

"How Conductor Michael Morgan Turned the Oakland Symphony On - and Around"
San Francisco Examiner Magazine, March 26, 2000

• Ludwig Van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (1808) [E.T.A. Hoffmann commentary...]
• Arias by Wagner, Puccini & Verdi with Hope Briggs, soprano
• Leonard Bernstein: complete score to the Jerome Robbins ballet Fancy Free

• Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem (1874)
  Jonita Lattimore, soprano; Patrice Houston, mezzo-soprano; Dan Snyder, tenor; Kirk Eichelberger, bass
  and the Oakland Symphony Chorus (Lynne Morrow, Music Director)

• Igor Stravinsky: Fireworks (1908)
• John Adams: The Chairman Dances - Foxtrot for Orchestra (1985)
• Tan Dun: Water Concerto for Water Percussion and Orchestra (1998)
  Ward Spangler, percussion
• Jon Jang: Chinese-American Symphony (2007)
  Jiebing Chen, erhu

• Richard Strauss: Don Juan (1889)
• Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (1934)
  Tara Kamangar, piano
• Aminollah Hossein: Piano Concerto No. 2 (1946)
  Tara Kamangar, piano
• Loris Tjeknavorian: Suite from the opera Rostam and Sohrab (1985)

• Roberto Sierra: Magnum Opus commission TBA (World Premiere)
• Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) (1917)
• Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (1881)
  Sandra Rivers, piano

• Follies (1971)
  Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Book by James Goldman
  Frederica von Stade, Tami Dahbura
  Other artists TBA

NOW THROUGH 2008

2007 - 2008 SEASON:
• November 9, 2007
• January 25, 2008
• February 22, 2008
• March 14, 2008
• April 18, 2008
• May 16, 2008

Live at the Paramount Theatre!
New Works for a New Century
Michael Morgan, Music Director

Order the 2-CD SET: $15 (includes tax and shipping)

Featuring Jake Heggie's "Holy the Firm" - Essay for Cello & Orchestra
(recorded at the Nov. 15, 2002 concert)

Jack Perla - Pixels at an Exhibition
Jake Heggie - "Holy the Firm" - Essay for Cello & Orchestra
Peter Knell - Fanfares and Fantasies
Michael Fiday - Automotive Passacaglia
David Conte - The Journey
William Ludtke - La Madre
Pei-Kun Xi - Dance of the Yao Tribe, Sisters of the Grassland, The Flower Drum Song
Bonus Track: Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 4, "Italian"