MUSIC REVIEWS
Singers of Pro Arte Voices Exalt Cathedral Evensong
Capping a week long choral festival held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, the Pro Arte Voices offered some of its most inspired and uplifting sacred music repertory in the cathedral’s Sunday (August 7) Evensong . . .
Read MoreShakespeare and Purcell Converge in Opera NEO’s Magical Production of ‘The Fairy Queen’
San Diego’s Opera NEO Summer Festival and Workshop opened its season August 5-6, 2016, with a charming, inventive production of Henry Purcell’s rarely produced masque “The Fairy Queen” . . .
Read MoreDanish String Quartet Opens SummerFest with Stunning Janáček Second Quartet
To open the 30th anniversary season of La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, the acclaimed Danish String Quartet offered their dazzling account of Leoš Janáček’s Second String Quartet, “Intimate Letters” . . .
Read MoreSacra/Profana’s Summer Youth Ensemble Soars in Final Concert
Saturday (July 16), in the sanctuary of the First United Methodist Church of San Diego, Sacra/Profana presented in concert some 55 high school choristers who have been participating in that choral organization’s annual Summer Choral Intensive at Point Loma Nazarene University . . .
Read MoreConcert Organist Christoph Bull: from Bach to Bowie and Back
Noted concert organist Christoph Bull pulled out all the stops at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion Monday night in a cleverly eclectic program that played to the organ’s strengths . . .
Read MoreMainly Mozart’s ‘Prodigy Year’ Exits With Prodigy Gavin George
Mainly Mozart Music Director Michael Francis concluded this year’s festival with a bland program of early Mozart pieces and Felix Mendelssohn’s First Symphony . . .
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