Posts by Ken Herman
Gustavo Romero Returns to La Jolla to Complete His Beethoven Sonata Cycle
Gustavo Romero presented the first of four all-Beethoven recitals for the La Jolla Athenaeum’s Summer Festival 2022 on Sunday, June 5, 2022.
Read MorePayare and the San Diego Symphony Climax the Season with Beethoven’s Incomparable Ninth Symphony
With the assistance of the San Diego Master Chorale and four vocal soloists, Rafael Payare and the San Diego Symphony crowned their Saturday concert at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park with Neethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Read More‘Paradise TBD’—the Brave New World of Opera at Bread & Salt
Clint McCallum’s new opera “Paradise TBD” at Bread & Salt on Friday fused an existentialist plot with a purely digital score and five amazing vocalists.
Read MoreSpektral Quartet’s Unique Take on the Shape of the String Quartet Concert
The Spektral Quartet plays and sounds like most other accomplished string quartets, but the way they structure their programs is quite unlike any other chamber ensemble
Read MoreRafael Payare Conducts the San Diego Symphony in Salonen, Ravel, and Debussy at The Rady Shell
Saturday’s San Diego Symphony concert at The Rady Shell included Esa-Pekka Salonen’s 2010 “Nyx” as well as Impressionist icons by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
Read MoreKrishan Oberoi Returns to Conduct Sacra/Profana in Dominic Argento’s Cantata ‘Walden Pond’
Krishan Oberoi, founder and Principal Guest Conductor of the San Diego choral ensemble Sacra/Profana, returned to San Diego Friday to conduct Sacra/Profana in a striking concert of recent choral works at Christ Lutheran Church in Pacific Beach.
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