Posts by Ken Herman
Camarada Brings Concert of French Impressionist Composers to Balboa Park’s Museum of Photographic Arts
Camarada, the San Diego collective of professional musicians now celebrating its 25th season, presented a chamber concert of Impressionist works Sunday at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park.
Read MoreThe Danish String Quartet Opens Its Musically Probing Prism Project at The Conrad
The Danish String Quartet returned to La Jolla Saturday, November 16, bringing a joyful, sonically resplendent Beethoven String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127, and the smoldering intensity of Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat Minor, Opus 144.
Read MoreWeilerstein and Payare Offer Memorable Accounts of Bloch and Strauss
Friday’s November 15 concert by the San Diego Symphony featured Alisa Weilerstein provided riveting solos in Ernest Bloch’s “Schelomo, Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra” and Richard Strauss’s “Don Quixote.”
Read MoreAlisa Weilerstein’s Sublime Bach Cello Suites at The Conrad in La Jolla
Alisa Weilerstein’s breathtaking recital of three J. S. Bach Cello Suites at The Conrad in La Jolla on Tuesday opened a new chapter for the San Diego Symphony. The orchestra has wisely moved its Chamber Music Series from various downtown locations to the Baker-Baum Concert Hall in the La Jolla Music Society’s acclaimed new Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center.
Read MoreHausmann Quartet Pairs Andrew Norman and Stravinsky with Haydn
Sunday’s November 10, 2019, Hausmann Quartet concert at the Maritime Museum of San Diego continued the ensemble’s traversal of all of the Haydn string quartets. Their program also included Andrew Norman’s “Peculiar Strokes” from 2011 and Igor Stravinsky’s rarely programmed single movement “Concertino” from 1920.
Read MoreGarrick Ohlsson’s Definitive Brahms Recital at The Conrad
Garrick Ohlsson returned to The Conrad in downtown La Jolla Friday, November 9, to play another all-Brahms piano recital. With his evident affection for the repertory, his superlative technique, and his insight into what makes Brahms’ piano music distinctive, his recital also turned into a graduate level master class for anyone who plays piano or has ever studied the instrument.
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