Posts by Ken Herman
SummerFest and the Miró Quartet Celebrate Composer Caroline Shaw
Wednesday at this year’s La Jolla SummerFest, the Miró Quartet featured music by Caroline Shaw with the composer present and also accompanied her singing two of her works.
Read MoreCostanzo and Salvant Join Their Voices in a Sparkling Marathon of Song
Cécile McLorin Salvant and Anthony Roth Costanzo put together a scintillating musical revue that included a half dozen Kurt Weill songs and a dazzling array of other solos and duets that enchanted the SummerFest audience at The Conrad.
Read MoreCécile McLorin Salvant’s Smashing San Diego Concert at SummerFest
In her brilliant San Diego debut Wednesday at La Jolla SummerFest, jazz vocalist and composer Cécile McLorin Salvant easily demonstrated why she won the 2010 Thelonious Monk competition.
Read MoreSummerFest Looks for Richard Wagner’s Fingerprints in Chamber Music
“The Wagner Effect” proved a clever title for Sunday afternoon’s SummerFest concert at The Conrad. The eclectic collection of pieces performed to illustrate this concept—not so clever.
Read MoreOpera Neo Soars with Handel’s Sumptuous Opera ‘Ariodante’
Friday at Bread & Salt in Barrio Logan, Opera Neo opened an astonishingly well performed production of Handel’s opera ‘Ariodante’ with the amazing Stephanie Doche in the title role.
Read MoreSummerFest 2022 Explores the Bach Family and Their Wide Influences in Western Music
Beyond Bach, Sunday’s SummerFest 2022 program, offered a clever potpourri of works that inspired—or might have inspired—J. S. Bach, as well as a few works inspired by the Leipzig master himself.
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