Orchestra Performance - Ravel & Brahms - Orinda Presbyterian Church

Maestro Lawrence Kohl offers Brahms’s deeply liberating Third Symphony  alongside Ravel’s exuberant Piano Concerto in G with Denis Pascal who will be flying in from Paris! The emotions Brahms implores in his 3rd Symphony combine the serious and the playful, creating a work of gripping and emotional drama that moves the soul. For the Ravel Piano Concerto, “Denis Pascal’s individual style when playing the great repertoire places him among the finest French pianists of his generation,” \(Sung-Won Yang, Artistic Director of the Beethoven Festival, Beaune, France\) will bring out the full exuberance of the work.  Begun by Music Director Lawrence Kohl in 1989, PCO has performed to critical acclaim in San Francisco, Walnut Creek, Napa and now in Livermore and Lafayette. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, “An electrifying performance. Kohl’s avid direction gave the music just the right blend of public rhetoric and intimate delicacy.” PCO’s educational programs introduce classical music to over 6,000 elementary school children each year and provides clinics for middle and high school music ensembles.