Posts by Ken Herman
Vivid Ensembles Fill Opera NEO’s Second Installment of Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’
With its generous buffet of inviting ensembles, Opera NEO’s second installment of Mozart’s earnest yet fanciful moral fable, “The Magic Flute,” made its online debut Saturday, September 5.
Read MoreSummerFest 2020 Signs Off with Exuberant Schubert ‘Trout’ Piano Quintet
SummerFest 2020 signed off Saturday, August 29, with a bit of J. S. Bach and Serge Prokofiev, but centered on an exuberant slalom through Schubert’s “Trout” Piano Quintet, D. 667.
Read MoreWeilerstein Gives Stunning Account of Kodály Sonata for Solo Cello at SummerFest 2020
In Friday’s online concert of SummerFest 2020, Alisa Weilerstein combined discovery and amazing virtuoso execution in Kodály’s Sonata for Solo Cello. The program also included a Mozart Violin Sonata and the Suk Piano Quartet.
Read MoreDelectable Fauré Violin Sonata Refreshes SummerFest 2020’s Cautious Standard Repertory
The sophisticated Gallic ambience of Gabriel Fauré’s First Sonata for Violin and Piano at Wednesday’s (August 26) SummerFest 2020 program proved as welcome as a cool breeze wafting from the La Jolla cove on a muggy summer afternoon.
Read MoreSummerFest 2020 Offers a Moving Afternoon of Beethoven and Mendelssohn
The emotional momentum of the opening two La Jolla SummerFest 2020 concerts came to fruition Sunday afternoon, August 23, in the stirring online performance from The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center.
Read MoreSummerFest 2020 Audaciously Purloins Orchestral Gems
For his second night of SummerFest 2020, Music Director Inon Barnatan boldly commandeered works from the symphonic repertory by Beethoven and Rachmaninoff and made a splendid case for their transmigration into the medium of chamber music.
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