Summerfest 2021 schedule and ticket information

All concerts are at 7:30 p.m. at the Baker-baum Concert Hall in the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, unless otherwise indicated. Concerts marked with an asterisk will also be livestreamed.

July 30: Opening Night: “Ode to Joy” — Beethoven, Mozart/grieg, Adams, de Falla, Gjeilo and Mendelssohn *

July 31: American Perspectives I: “Goin’ Home” — Dvorak, Marsalis, Price and Perkinson *

Aug. 1: “The Artist as Muse” — Debussy, Britten, Stravinsky and Mozart, 3 p.m. *

Aug. 4: “Notes on Freedom” — Brahms and Andrew Norman

Aug. 5: “Life Story” — Sibelius, Shostakovich, Schubert and Smetana

Aug. 7: American Perspectives II: “Idealized Landscapes” — Ives, Caroline Shaw and Gabriela Lena Frank *

Aug. 8: American Perspectives III: “Rhapsodies in Blues” — Ravel, Schuller, Milhaud, Williams, Bernstein and Gershwin *

Aug. 10: “For a Great Artist” — Berio and Tchaikovsky *

Aug. 11: “Symphonic Dances” — Enescu and Rachmaninoff

Aug. 12: “A Song by Mahler” — A new chamber opera by Marc Neikrug

Aug. 15: American Perspectives IV: “The Silver Score” — Hermann, Glass, Corigliano, Barber, Williams, Zigman, Korngold and Britell, 3 p.m. *

Aug. 15: Takeover @ The JAI I — curated by Gabriela Lena Frank, 7:30 p.m.

Aug. 17: Takeover @ The JAI II — curated by Gabriela Lena Frank

Aug. 18: “Intimate Letters” — Janacek and Franck

Aug. 19: “Grand Duos” — Mozart, Tamar Muskal and Chausson *

Aug. 20: Finale: “A Love Composed” — Wagner, Schumann and Brahms * Summerfest 2021 season ticket packages go on sale at noon today . Solstice subscription packages are priced from $574 to $838 for 10 concerts. Celestial subscription packages are priced from $759 to $1,106 for 14 concerts. Non-subscription concerts at The JAI are $60 and $75 per ticket. Subscription renewals begin May 30 and run through June 18. Singleconcert tickets, which range from $45 to $96, go on sale June 23. Tickets and more information is available at the La Jolla Music Society box office, by phone at (858) 459-3728 and online at ljms.org.