Posts by Ken Herman
The San Diego Symphony Offers a Magnificent ‘Firebird’ to Complete the 2023-24 Season at The Rady Shell
To complete the 2023-2024 season, San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare conducted the orchestra at the Rady Shell on Saturday in Igor Stravinsky’s complete ‘Firebird’ ballet and Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto.
Read MoreSacra/Profana’s Concert ‘A Space to Belong’ Will Premiere Cory Hibbs’ LGBT Cantata
Sacra/Profana Music Director Juan Carlos Acosta will lead the chorus in the première of Cory Hibbs’ cantata ‘All We Need—Meditations on Queer Being’ June 1, 2024, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral.
Read MoreArt of Elan’s ‘Balancing’ Program Dazzles at the San Diego Museum of Art
Wednesday’s Art of Elan ‘Balancing’ concert at the San Diego Museum of Art was inspired by the museum’s stainless steel sculpture ‘Two Lines Oblique: San Diego, 1993.’
Read MoreThe San Diego Symphony Brings Wagner to the Rady Shell
At the Rady Shell on Saturday the San Diego Symphony presented Act I of Richard Wagner’s second Ring Cycle opera, ‘Die Walküre.’
Read MoreThe Hausmann Quartet Boldly Champions Schoenberg and Dutilleux on Sunday’s ‘Haydn Voyages’ Program
The programming of Sunday’s installment of the Hausmann Quartet’s Haydn Voyages series at the Maritime Museum of San Diego encountered some figurative stormy weather.
Read MoreOpera Neo Celebrates Another Handel Rarity: ‘Rodelinda’ at First Unitarian Universalist Church
Opera Neo opened its season Friday with a bold, imaginatively staged production of G. F. Handel’s early opera ‘Rodelinda.’
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