Posts by Ken Herman
Camarada Brings Live Performance with Audience (!) Back to Bread and Salt
Titling Camarada’s 2020-2021 season as well as this Sunday concert Unstoppable, their program at Bread and Salt featured engaging but lesser known composers of the 20th and 21st Century—with the exception of a spirited closing number by the adored Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla.
Read MorePenderecki’s ‘Adagio for Strings’ Made Friday’s San Diego Symphony Online Concert Exceptional
In Friday’s streamed concert from the Jacobs Music Center, San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare and the orchestra performed Penderecki’s 2013 “Adagio for Strings” as well as works by Mozart and Dvořák.
Read MoreA Little Night Music from Art of Élan at the San Diego Museum of Art
Art of Élan’s bracing outdoor chamber concert in the San Diego Museum of Art’s May S. Marcy Sculpture Court and Garden offered yet another option for live performance under pandemic restrictions.
Read MoreSan Diego Opera Favorite Singer Patrick Carfizzi Returns for a Drive-in ‘Barber of Seville’
In April’s San Diego Opera drive-in production of Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,” bass-baritone Patrick Carfizzi brings his powerful baritone in the role of Doctor Bartolo.
Read MoreHausmann Quartet Reveals Haydn’s Newest Musical Colleagues: Agélica Negrón and Graźyna Bacewicz
Sunday’s online concert by the Hausmann Quartet offered two unusually rewarding compositions in addition to Haydn’s D Major Quartet, Op. 20, No.4: Graźyna Bacewicz’s String Quartet No. 4 from 1951 and Angélica Negrón’s “Marejada,” written just last year.
Read MoreSan Diego Symphony Offer’s Carlos Simon’s Searing “Elegy” from 2015 with Familiar Mozart and Tchaikovsky Fare
To open Friday’s online symphony concert “Elegies and Serenades,” San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare chose Carlos Simon’s striking 2015 “Elegy: A Cry from the Grave.”
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