MUSIC

American tenor George Gray will sing the role of Waldemar at the two scheduled performances of Arnold Schoenberg’s “Gurrelieder,” with the Pacific Symphony, at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, May 19 and 20. Gray, 40, has sung with New York City Opera and recently made European debuts as Tristan (at Netherlands Opera, in January) and as Otello (in Frankfurt, in April). He appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony in the summer of 1985 and returned the following season in Beethoven’s Ninth. Gray replaces the late James McCracken, who died Friday.