MUSIC

Keith Clark, founder and outgoing music director of the Santa Ana-based Pacific Symphony, will form a new orchestra in Southern California to fulfill a three-year recording contract he recently signed with Reference Recordings, a small label based in San Francisco. The ensemble will not give public concerts, Clark told The Times, revealing that “there is no orchestra at this point. We haven’t had auditions.” But, he said, he will “produce some records in Southern California . . . with an ensemble of fine musicians that I will bring together for (that) purpose.”