Posts by Ken Herman
UC San Diego Celebrates the Music and Influence of Chou Wen-Chung
Under the direction of Steven Schick, UC San Diego’s bravura contemporary ensemble “red fish blue fish” offered in their Wednesday, February 19, concert a fitting homage to the influential late Chinese composer Chou Wen-Chung
Read MoreOpera NEO Offers Mozart, Gounod, and Rameau in Promising 2020 Summer Opera Festival
Following a pattern that has won devoted audiences, the Opera NEO Summer Opera Festival has announced its August 2020 season: two repertory favorites, Charles Gounod’s “Faust” and Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” complemented by a Baroque rarity, Jean Philippe Rameau’s “Platée.”
Read MoreHausmann Quartet Spices Its Recent Haydn Voyage with Caroline Shaw and Terry Riley
The adventurous Hausmann Quartet opened its fifth season of Haydn Voyages on the Maritime Museum of San Diego’s Berkeley on Sunday afternoon, February , 2020).
Read MoreStrong Voices Grace San Diego Opera’s ‘Hansel and Gretel’ Vividly Staged with Forest Creatures of Day and Night
Saturday, February 8, San Diego Opera opened an unusually imaginative, ingratiating, dramatic production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s 1893 fairy tale opera “Hansel and Gretel” at San Diego Civic Theatre.
Read MoreCamarada’s Sophisticated Bossa Nova Valentine at the Museum of Photographic Arts
Sunday’s program at the Museum of Photographic Arts, a tempting buffet of stylish, jazz-inflected bossa nova selections, demonstrated again the laudable versatility of the chamber ensemble Camarada.
Read MoreBritish Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor Makes Splendid Debut in Mozart Concerto with the San Diego Symphony
Friday’s San Diego Symphony concert devoted to the music of Mozart and Mendelssohn featured guest soloist Benjamin Grosvenor in a brilliant account of Mozart’s E-flat Major Piano Concerto, K. 271, and Mendelssohn’s Fifth Symphony (“Reformation”) under the baton of Jun Märkl.
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