 | Simply Ina: An Evening Conversation with Ina Garten
Presented by San Diego Symphony — San Diego
Thursday, 11/12/2026 An evening onstage with Ina Garten – the beloved cookbook author and television host known to millions as the Barefoot Contessa – offers audiences the chance to hear from one of America’s most trusted voices in home cooking and hospitality. The evening will spotlight her new cookbook, Simply Ina, a vibrant collection of recipes that prove the most delicious cooking is often the simplest. |
 | San Diego Symphony with Daniil Trifonov
Presented by Philharmonic Society of OC — Costa Mesa
Friday, 11/13/2026 Tchaikovsky & Shostakovich
Led by its dynamic Music Director Rafael Payare, the San Diego Symphony welcomes celebrated Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov for Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, a cornerstone of the Russian repertoire. |
 | Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony
Presented by LA Philharmonic — Los Angeles
11/13/2026 - 11/15/2026 Next performance: Friday, 11/13/2026 The Russian Romantic’s passionate thrill ride meets a contemporary saxophone concerto about the Black American diaspora. |
 | Palm Desert Choreography Festival
Presented by McCallum Theatre Education — Palm Desert
11/8/2025 - 11/15/2026 Next performance: Saturday, 11/14/2026 Celebrating the Artists of Today, Nurturing the Artists of Tomorrow!
This popular Festival is a dynamic live platform for dancemakers and dancers to showcase their work and powerfully engages audiences around dance in the Coachella Valley. Exciting original dances in various styles are performed by companies from across the Coachella Valley. |
 | Palm Desert Choreography Festival
Presented by McCallum Theatre — Palm Desert
11/14/2026 - 11/15/2026 Next performance: Saturday, 11/14/2026 Presenting Sponsor - The City of Palm Desert
Celebrating the Artists of Today, Nurturing the Artists of Tomorrow |
 | Santa Barbara Symphony: Symphonie Fantastique!
Presented by Santa Barbara Symphony — Santa Barbara
11/14/2026 - 11/15/2026 Next performance: Saturday, 11/14/2026 An obsession. An opium dream. A march to the scaffold. A witches' sabbath at midnight. Step inside the fevered imagination of Hector Berlioz as Nir Kabaretti leads the Symphonie fantastique — music so vivid, so unhinged, it shocked the world in 1830 and still does today. Plus Santa Barbara Symphony Chorus in Poulenc's radiant Gloria, and Debussy's shimmering Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. |
 | Main Series 2: Thick as Thieves - Los Angeles
Presented by Salastina — Los Angeles
Saturday, 11/14/2026 Some ensembles are assembled for a performance. Others are forged over decades of concerts, recordings, rehearsals, road trips, and shared adventures. |
 | Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich: Majesty and Tragedy
Presented by San Diego Symphony — San Diego
11/14/2026 - 11/15/2026 Next performance: Saturday, 11/14/2026 Rafael Payare, conductor
Daniil Trifonov, piano
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93 |
 | Beethoven Symphony No. 7
Presented by Pasadena Symphony — Pasadena
Saturday, 11/14/2026 November 14, 2026
2:00pm & 8:00pm
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 | Main Series 2: Thick as Thieves - Pasadena
Presented by Salastina — Pasadena
Sunday, 11/15/2026 Some ensembles are assembled for a performance. Others are forged over decades of concerts, recordings, rehearsals, road trips, and shared adventures. |
 | Orange County Youth Symphony & String Ensemble Fall Concert
Presented by Soka Performing Arts Center — Aliso Viejo
Sunday, 11/15/2026 Now in its 56th season, the Orange County Youth Symphony and String Ensemble spotlight both new and returning members in an exciting concert led by Johannes Müller Stosch and Lucy Lu—marking the start of an ambitious year of performances and engagements. |
 | The Carpenters Songbook
Presented by McCallum Theatre — Palm Desert
11/19/2026 - 11/20/2026 Next performance: Thursday, 11/19/2026 A Live Celebration
Few voices in pop history are as instantly recognizable, or as deeply loved, as Karen Carpenter’s. |
 | Ravel, Falla & Ortiz
Presented by LA Philharmonic — Los Angeles
11/20/2026 - 11/22/2026 Next performance: Friday, 11/20/2026 Gustavo Gimeno brings “a healthy dose of Iberian blood, sweat, and sexiness” (Bachtrack) to works by Ravel and unites with trumpet wizard Pacho Flores for Gabriela Ortiz’s metallic-themed concerto. |
 | Voices of Destiny: Liszt’s Concerto and Mahler’s Sixth
Presented by San Diego Symphony — San Diego
11/20/2026 - 11/22/2026 Next performance: Friday, 11/20/2026 Rafael Payare, conductor
Inon Barnatan, piano
LISZT: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major
MAHLER: Symphony No. 6 in A minor, “Tragic” |
 | Million Dollar Quartet Christmas
Presented by San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre — San Luis Obispo
11/20/2026 - 12/20/2026 Next performance: Friday, 11/20/2026 From the creators of MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, your favorite Rock 'n' Roll legends return for a brand-new holiday experience. Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley reunite at Sun Records, decking the halls with Christmas cheer and rockin' classics. Filled with holiday stories of past, present, and future, it's a festive celebration that will have audiences on their feet! |
 | Emi Ferguson & Ruckus
Presented by Philharmonic Society of OC — Aliso Viejo
Saturday, 11/21/2026 Fly the Coop: Bach Sonatas and Preludes
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 | Jake Shimabukuro Holidays in Hawaii - Poway OnStage
Presented by Poway OnStage — Poway
Saturday, 11/21/2026 With astonishing speed, precision, and creativity, Jake Shimabukuro has redefined what audiences believe is possible on the ukulele. Hailed around the world for his groundbreaking musicianship, the internationally acclaimed performer. . . |
 | DIAVOLO: ESCAPE
Presented by The Soraya — Northridge
11/21/2026 - 11/22/2026 Next performance: Saturday, 11/21/2026 DIAVOLO: Architecture in Motion returns to The Soraya for its fifth engagement, this time with ESCAPE, a visceral and heart-pounding live show following a group of humans as they struggle to break free from the chaos around them, ultimately escaping into a surreal landscape of infinite possibilities. |
 | Pacific Symphony: Bach & Beethoven with Alexander Shelley, cond.
Presented by Soka Performing Arts Center — Aliso Viejo
Sunday, 11/22/2026 An Evening with Pacific Symphony with Alexander Shelley, cond. and Dennis Kim & Yoomin Seo, violins
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 | The Who's Tommy
Presented by McCallum Theatre — Palm Desert
11/24/2026 - 11/29/2026 Next performance: Tuesday, 11/24/2026 The Musical
Myth and spectacle combine in this fresh reinvention that includes the unforgettable anthems “I’m Free,” “See Me, Feel Me,” “Sensation” and “Pinball Wizard.” |