Orchestra will open its season with “Jon Nakamatsu and the Jazz Age” at the California Theatre in October.
Award-winning pianist Jon Nakamatsu performs at a Rotary Club of San Jose meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. Nakamatsu is the featured soloist in the season opening program for Symphony San Jose on Oct. 5-6, 2024. Symphony San Jose Executive Artist Director Robert Massey has an interesting history with pianist Jon Nakamatsu, the San Jose native who is the featured soloist for the symphony’s season opener the first weekend in October.
Nakamatsu said while he meets people like that all the time, he remembered Massey for a very fun reason: “We had a day off and he said, ‘Hey, do you want to go to Graceland?’ and I said, ‘Of course I want to go to Graceland!’ So that’s our history.”There’s no Elvis Presley music on the Oct. 5-6 program — which is inspired is by the Roaring ’20s and featuring Nakamatsu performing George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.
“It’s a very short, kind of thorny but really jazzy piece that I think goes well with ,” Nakamatsu said at the Rotary Club meeting. “It’s incredible to be in the California Theatre as a performer but also just as a San Josean,” he said. “Not having grown up with the California Theater and now having that, I think, is an incredible thing for the city, just culturally. It’s a wonderful place to sit in, let alone make music in.”a pre-concert Prohibition Party dinner
at the Silicon Valley Capital Club, a perfect opportunity to slip into a flapper dress and sip on speakeasy cocktails while listening to live jazz. The deadline to buy tickets is 4 p.m. Sept. 25, though, and no secret password will get you through the door after that.Asking Eric: I'm giving him $5,000 a month, and he won't even talk to meKimberly Guilfoyle could dump Don Trump Jr.
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