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Symphony San Jose’s 24th season-opening program invites the public into a world of fantasy and wild imagination. Conductor, Nathan Aspinall. Guest Artist, Jon Nakamatsu.

Anna Clyne’s dazzling and dynamic Masquerade captures the spirit of celebration and revelry. Commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation, Masquerade is a single-movement 5-minute orchestral composition by the British-born composer, first performed September 7, 2013

San Jose-born world-renown pianist Jon Nakamatsu appears in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s ravishing Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini with a tour-de-force performance of the composer’s final and perhaps most significant work for piano and orchestra. (1934)

Hector Berlioz’s most famous composition, Symphonie Fantastique (Fantastic Symphony), is a spellbinding quasi-autobiographical musical journey through love, delirium, and supernatural visions. This vibrant tapestry of sound depicting the composer’s descent into madness by unrequited love was nothing short of revolutionary when it premiered in 1830 – and still holds the power to thrill and surprise today.