MUSIC REVIEWS
La Jolla SummerFest’s “Virtuoso Winds” Flies High
In spite of SummerFest’s program title that promised wind music, half of the offerings were not . . .
Read MoreShaham Shines in Prokofiev Concerto for SummerFest Grand Finale
In accord with the longstanding La Jolla SummerFest tradition, Friday’s (August 26) grand finale performance featured a chamber orchestra, with renowned violinist Gil Shaham as soloist . . .
Read MorePerforming Show Tunes with a ‘Broadway Baby’
Musicians are often taken for granted when performing at concerts headlined by famous singers. One of the most impressive aspects of the August 26 Bernadette Peters’ concert at the Embarcadero Marina Park South was seeing the San Diego Symphony given their due throughout the evening.
Read MoreThe Passionate Chamber Music of Liszt and Tchaikovsky
Virtuoso Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin was the featured performer in Wednesday’s (August 24) La Jolla SummerFest concert. No stranger to San Diego audiences, he gave winning accounts of piano concertos by Ravel and Gershwin with the San Diego Symphony earlier this year, and this marked his third successful visit to La Jolla’s Sherwood Auditorium . . .
Read MoreA Touch of Ragtime Lightens the La Jolla SummerFest Regimen
La Jolla SummerFest’s August 21 concert opened with William Bolcom’s charming, droll “Three Rags for String Quartet” and continued with quintets by Mozart and Robert Schumann . . .
Read MoreThe Blistering Virtuosity of Paquito D’Rivera
La Jolla Music Society offered a unique program featuring the Cuban-born woodwind master Paquito D’Rivera in several alluring combinations with other SummerFest artists . . .
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