Barber & Hanson
June 27, 2026 (SAT) @ 7:30pm
Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center*
Eli and Edythe Broad Stage
1310 11th St, Santa Monica
This powerful and richly expressive program celebrates the brilliance of American orchestral music while also exploring the fascinating influence of Hollywood and the cinematic sound world that helped shape 20th-century music.
The evening opens with Samuel Barber’s Essay No. 2—a thrilling and dramatic orchestral work filled with sweeping lyricism, rhythmic drive, and emotional intensity. We are also delighted to welcome rising violin star Aubree Oliverson to perform Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s legendary Violin Concerto—one of the most beloved and dazzling violin concertos ever written. The concert concludes with Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 2, the “Romantic” Symphony—one of the great American symphonies of the 20th century. Sweeping, noble, and uplifting, Hanson’s symphony captures a uniquely American sound world filled with warmth, optimism, and expansive beauty.
Roger Kalia, conductor
Aubree Oliverson, violinist
Program
Samuel Barber: Essay No. 2
Erich Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major (Aubree Oliverson)
Howard Hanson: Symphony No. 2
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These programs are supported, in part, with grant support from the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs, We Are Santa Monica Fund, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture, and The Musicians Performance Trust Fund.
*The program does not constitute an endorsement by Santa Monica College.