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S.B. Symphony Plans a Weekend of the Arts - Precinct Reporter Group News

The San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra has quite a weekend coming up and invites you to be a part. The Symphony’s 96th performance season begins on March 22 with “Storm and Seduction: Reformation vs. Carmen,” a creative juxtaposition of two Romantic/Classical favorites which will be held at the historic California Theatre of the Performing Arts in downtown San Bernardino. In the first half of this 3 p.m. matinee, Symphony Music Director and Conductor Anthony Parnther will lead the Orchestra in Felix Mendelssohn’s powerful and evocative Fifth Symphony in D minor, known as the 'Reformation' Symphony. In the second half, Maestro Parnther will welcome to the stage noted vocalists Maria Dominique Lopez, Orson Van […]

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