Symphony Stars at SBMA

Violinist Jessica Guideri, concertmaster of the Santa Barbara Symphony, and Amy Tatum, the orchestra’s principal flutist, head half a block south of their normal Granada Theatre venue to play a series of pop-up performances in the galleries of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on August 25. The pair of musicians will play a combination of solo pieces and duets responding to works in the recently-opened exhibition A Legacy of Giving: The Lady Leslie and Lord Paul Ridley-Tree Collection, a set which consists primarily of 19th-century British and French paintings. Guideri and Tatum will play four half-hour sets with seatings at 1:00, 1:45, 2:30 and 3:15 pm, with each performance featuring the same five short pieces composed by Ibert, Debussy, Bach, Telemann and Jay Ungar, with brief introductory commentary. The concert is included with regular museum admission. Visit www.sbma.net. 

A much larger subset of the symphony will be featured for the first time as symphonic accompaniment at the upcoming One805 Live! concert in Summerland on September 20 before the full orchestra opens the 2024-25 season with its Tchaikovsky Immersion program on October 19-20.