Conductor and bassoonist Anthony Parnther, Music Director of the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra and a major conductor of film andTV soundtracks, is bookending his holiday season with very different performances, including two in the Northeast. After leading a concert of traditional Christmas music this weekend with the San Bernardino Symphony, he will conduct the New Jersey Symphony in Handel’s Messiah Dec. 19 - 21 in Princeton and Newark. Then on Dec. 31, he’ll conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra’s New Year’s Eve celebration featuring music from Hollywood classics, including The Wizard of Oz, Sunset Boulevard, Citizen Kane and Psycho.
A Tempo host Rachel Katz chats with him about these performances and his embrace of the full spectrum of classical music.
