Major NEA Grants to San Diego Opera & Carlsbad Music Festival

San Diego Opera's 2012 MOBY-DICK (photo by Ken Howard)

The National Endowment for the Arts has selected two San Diego County music organizations for major grants for the coming year. NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman announced Tuesday (Nov. 27) that San Diego Opera is slated to receive a $50,000 grant in support of its new production in the spring of 2013 of 20th-century Italian composer…

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Pacifica Quartet returns to UC San Diego

Pacifica Quartet

If you are a chamber music ensemble, you know that you have arrived when a prestigious music school invites you for a long term residency and puts you on the full time faculty. It is one thing to have a busy touring schedule and a fistful of glowing reviews, but nothing compares with the security…

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