In Vivaldi’s beloved masterwork, Christina Mok and the orchestra capture each season of the year in glorious detail: birds sing, bluebottles hum, rain drums, and a fire crackles in the hearth.

Symphony San Jose Chorale and accompanying musicians invite you to join them for their annual Carols in the California. This year’s program features classic carols, including audience singalongs, all in the warm glow of the California Theatre.

After seven films, it all comes down to this: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 will grace the screen once more… this time in concert! The characters you love are back, battling villains and protecting Hogwarts from Voldemort himself. Hear a live symphony orchestra bring Alexandre Desplat’s music to life, and experience all...

You are invited to the Symphony’s salute to this most revered of creator-innovators. Under Maestro Nelson’s seasoned leadership, Jon Nakamatsu, internationally renowned and local favorite, will perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. This will be followed by the Fifth Symphony, Beethoven’s stunning signature work, a cornerstone of Western music and the embodiment of minor to...

Mozart comes alive in all his mischief and glory in Miloš Foreman’s fanciful film biography. Its prize-winning score, including portions of The Magic Flute, the Requiem in D minor, Don Giovanni, Symphony No 25 in G minor and much much more, is “one of the most popular classical music recordings of all time.” Hear it...

Four composers whose works defined America in the ‘30s and ‘40s come together in one grand program. Copland’s expansive, optimistic Appalachian Spring became known as “the quintessential American sound.” Gershwin and Bernstein each give us a brilliant mix of symphonic music, jazz and Broadway. The program closes with Duke Ellington’s stunning long-form jazz reflection on...