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# DAILY PRESS Free Symphony concert
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/daily-press-free-symphony-concert/
- Published: 2006-12-08T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T23:22:01.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Events, Main St, #archive-import

The Santa Monica Symphony, under the direction of Allen Robert Gross, will give a free concert this weekend.

The concert will feature Wagner’s overture “The Flying Dutchman” and “Symphonie Espagnole,” performed by Elizabeth Pitcairn on the legendary Stradivarius red violin. The consul general of Finland will be the honored guest on Sibelius’s “Second Symphony” celebrating Finland’s independence day.

The concert will be held on Sunday, Dec. 10, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 1855 Main St., at 7:30 p.m.

For more information, go to www.smsymphony.org.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 8, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/120806.pdf?ref=smdp.com)