Fallbrook Music Society to present powerful season opener Sun., Nov. 23

FALLBROOK – On Sunday, Nov. 23, Redlands Symphony, under the baton of conductor Jon Robertson, will present Fallbrook Music Society’s 37th season opening concert, which includes three beloved masterpieces: Handel’s Water Music; Telemann’s Trumpet Concerto and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s exhilarating final composition, Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter.”

Mozart penned 41 numbered symphonies during his lifetime; “Jupiter” might well be the final and best icon of the classical era symphony, and is a fitting capstone on the legend of one of its masters.

Dr. Robertson has served as music director conductor of Redlands Symphony for the past 32 years, and recently announced his retirement, which will begin at the end of the orchestra’s 2016-17 season. “It has been a wonderful experience, but there comes a time when you feel one needs to move on and see other new vistas and places,” Robertson.

A search for Robertson’s replacement is being conducted, and Ann Murray, Fallbrook Music Society’s executive director, has been asked to assist in the national search.

The Music Society’s first concert of the 2014-15 season will be held in the Bob Burton Center for the Performing Arts at 3 p.m., with a conductor’s preview at 2:30 p.m. Single tickets are $38 adult and $10 for students, and can be purchased by calling Fallbrook Music Society at (760) 451-8644 or

http://www.fallbrookmusicsociety.org.