{"id":1549,"date":"2017-02-24T20:14:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T20:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/music\/long-beach-symphony-announces-beethoven-and-dvorak-symphony-concert\/"},"modified":"2017-02-24T20:14:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T20:14:07","slug":"long-beach-symphony-announces-beethoven-and-dvorak-symphony-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/music\/long-beach-symphony-announces-beethoven-and-dvorak-symphony-concert","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Symphony Announces Beethoven and Dvo\u0159\u00e1k Symphony Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Long Beach Symphony presents Ludwig van Beethoven and Anton\u00edn Devo\u0159\u00e1k as well as an oboe concert produced by German composer Ludwig August Lebrun to play on Saturday, March 4 at the Terrace Theater of the Long Beach Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n<p>The orchestra will be led by guest conductor Paul Polivnik, currently the music director and conductor laureate of the New Hampshire Music Festival. Polivnik has guest conducted more than 40 orchestras in the United States as well as orchestras in Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Symphony\u2019s principal oboist Rong-Heu Liu will solo in \u201cLebrun\u2019s Concerto No. 2\u201d in G minor. Liu also performs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera and Pacific Symphony. In addition, Liu is the principal oboist for Andrea Bocelli\u2019s annual West Coast touring orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Symphony is fortunate to have such distinguished musicians among its ranks,\u201d Executive Director Kelly Lucera said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The program will begin with Beethoven\u2019s \u201cLeonore Overture No. 3,\u201d one of four that the composer wrote for <em>Fidelio<\/em>, his only opera.<\/p>\n<p>Devo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s Symphony No. 8 will play following the intermission. This performance features a cheerful, bird-like flute motif, fitting for this upcoming spring.<\/p>\n<p>The concert begins at 8:00PM. Doors open at 6:30PM, and guests may also attend a free pre-concert talk at 7:00PM. Tickets start at $25, and student tickets are available for $10.<\/p>\n<p>To purchase tickets or find out more information, visit the symphony\u2019s website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.LongBeachSymphony.org)\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy of Long Beach Symphony of principal oboist Rong-Heu Liu.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Long Beach Performing Arts Center is located at 300 East Ocean Boulevard.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>{FG_GEOMAP [33.76520350000001,-118.1893341] FG_GEOMAP}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Long Beach Symphony presents Ludwig van Beethoven and Anton\u00edn Devo\u0159\u00e1k as well as an oboe concert produced by German composer Ludwig August Lebrun to play on Saturday, March 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":66948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[19],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-long-beach-symphony","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}