$40,000 Board Matching Donation!

Dear Symphony Family,

We hope you enjoyed this wonderful season of inspirational and diverse music from Your Symphony. Your support and sponsorships helped Maestro Danny Stewart create this amazingly powerful season that had everyone clapping, cheering, and sometimes even weeping with the strength and beauty of each concert. 

We need your help to continue to provide our community with the quality performances you have come to expect. Our Symphony Association Board has generously offered up $40,000 for a matching grant. Every dollar you donate between now and Monday, May 30th will be matched one-for-one.

We don’t want to leave even a penny on the table, and neither do you. So, could you help us meet this challenge? A fully funded match would mean $80,000 going straight into our budget for next season.

Here’s why it’s especially important. As with most arts organizations, Covid provided many challenges for us. Without a performance season for part of the time, and with safety restrictions and patron concerns this year, our ticket revenue was down significantly. Hopefully the worst is behind us and we can return to a more normal capacity. But even if we sold every seat, ticket revenue only covers about 50% of the cost to bring this music to you.

The Symphony received funding from the federal government to help support us during this global Covid crisis. But that is not going to continue. Of course, we will be pursuing other means of support such as grants from public and private foundations. But we still need your generous support. And if you are interested in becoming a sponsor at any level, please inform the Symphony office and we will be glad to follow up and discuss sponsorship options.

You are a valuable part of our Symphony family, so we know that you will help us with whatever amount you can give. 

Thank you again for your loyalty and for your dedication to fine musical performances.

Musically yours,

Linda Burroughs

Board President

PS – Remember that Monday May 30th, is our deadline for this match! Let’s make this happen!

Final concert of the santa cruz symphony classic season!

Don't Miss the Santa Cruz Symphony's Final Concert of the Season This Weekend!

Join the Santa Cruz Symphony for a captivating evening of choral and orchestral excellence as they present Carmina Burana, the fifth and last installment in the 2021 - 2022 Concert Season. The Symphony will host two performances of the concert on May 21 at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium and May 22 at the Mello Center in Watsonville.

The program specially features the Cabrillo Symphonic Chorus and the Cabrillo Youth Chorus under the direction of Cheryl Anderson along with soloists Ryan Wolfe, Raven McMillon and Jonah Hoskins. The concert will include Monteverdi’s Toccata & Ritornello from l’Orfeo, and Carl Orff’s masterpiece cantata, Carmina Burana, performed by the orchestra and full chorus! Don’t miss out on this powerful and enthrallingly lush soundscape that concludes this year’s Classic Concert Series.

Last chance to sign up for our online music class happening tonight!

Dear Symphony Music Lovers and Lifelong Learners,

There's still time to sign up for our online music class happening TONIGHT focused on Carmina Burana and our May 21 and 22 concerts.

Our leaders for this class will be Santa Cruz Symphony Board member Deborah Bronstein, MD and her husband Evans Whitaker, MD, MLIS. Deborah is a long time Cabrillo Chorus member and amateur musician, and "Whit" is her willing accomplice. We'll also have a very special guest: Maestro Danny Stewart!

Deborah and Whit will cover the pieces to be performed in order as they appear in the program:

  • Claudio Monteverdi's Toccata & Ritornello and its connection to Carl Orff

  • Valentin Silvestrov’s Prayer for Ukraine for an exquisite and timely tribute to Ukraine

  • Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, the perennial fan favorite. We’ll talk about the composer, his controversies, and his legacy—and uncover more about the texts, soloists, and musical structure.

This class will include live commentary and an interview with Maestro Danny Stewart!

We will meet on Zoom on Monday May 9, 2022 at 7 pm. Allow up to 90 minutes for this presentation, which will go into much greater depth than time allows at the preview presentations before the concerts. As always, we aim to enhance your concert-going and musical experience through deeper understanding of the concert material. This class will be recorded. A recording will be available two days later. 

The cost of this class is $20. To sign up, click the button below and follow the instructions on the website. After you've paid for the class, we'll send you an email with instructions for how to join the class via Zoom.

Please join your Symphony friends and pass the word to all your music-loving friends for this excellent class! We look forward to seeing you!

SIGN UP NOW!

sign up for the may 9th online music class!

Dear Symphony Music Lovers and Lifelong Learners,

It's time for our next online music class, focused on (more than) you ever wanted to know about Carmina Burana, our May 21 and 22 concerts.

Our leaders for this class will be Santa Cruz Symphony Board member Deborah Bronstein, MD and her husband Evans Whitaker, MD, MLIS. Deborah is a long time Cabrillo Chorus member and amateur musician, and "Whit" is her willing accomplice. We'll also have a very special guest: Maestro Danny Stewart!

Deborah and Whit will cover the pieces to be performed in order as they appear in the program:

  • Claudio Monteverdi's Toccata & Ritornello and its connection to Carl Orff

  • Valentin Silvestrov’s Prayer for Ukraine for an exquisite and timely tribute to Ukraine

  • Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, the perennial fan favorite. We’ll talk about the composer, his controversies, and his legacy—and uncover more about the texts, soloists, and musical structure.

This class will include live commentary and an interview with Maestro Danny Stewart!

We will meet on Zoom on Monday May 9, 2022 at 7 pm. Allow up to 90 minutes for this presentation, which will go into much greater depth than time allows at the preview presentations before the concerts. As always, we aim to enhance your concert-going and musical experience through deeper understanding of the concert material. This class will be recorded. A recording will be available two days later. 

The cost of this class is $20. To sign up, click the button below and follow the instructions on the website. After you've paid for the class, we'll send you an email with instructions for how to join the class via Zoom.

Please join your Symphony friends and pass the word to all your music-loving friends for this excellent class! We look forward to seeing you!

SIGN UP NOW!