San Diego Symphony
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 San Diego Symphony facts

• On December 6, 1910, it gave its first concert as the San Diego Civic Orchestra
• Currently, the Symphony performs over 100 concerts each season, including the Jacobs Masterworks series, the Winter Pops series, annual holiday programs, a Family Festival series, and the Light Bulb Series
• From July through September, the Symphony presents an outdoor Summer Pops season
• Recently, a "Thursday Night Jazz" series was initiated
• The Symphony performs subscription series concerts at Copley Symphony Hall, which was built in 1929 as a French Rococo style luxury movie theater, the Fox Theater
• It was conferred to the Symphony in 1984
• The Symphony Towers (the second tallest building in San Diego County) building was built around Copley Hall in 1989
• Since 2005, symphony musicians have also performed as the pit orchestra for San Diego Opera
• The orchestra encountered several periods of fiscal trouble over its history which forced it to cease operations
• The first such period was from 1921 to 1926