MUSIC REVIEWS
SummerFest’s Baroque Bonanza
Boston’s star Baroque performer Aisslinn Nosky led a stylish program of virtuoso Baroque music on Tuesday’s (August 11) SummerFest program . . .
Read MoreOpera NEO’s ‘Carmen’ Works Its Magic Under the Stars
Opera NEO at the Palisades Amphitheater created its own “music of the night” with Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ and a Mozart musical comedy . . .
Read MoreBrilliant Janáček and Mozart open La Jolla SummerFest
La Jolla SummerFest 2015 opened Friday (August 7) with a scintillating performance of Janáček by the Escher String Quartet and a splendid Mozart Piano Quartet that took the breath away . . .
Read MoreTheir Hearts Belong to DADA
Before high camp, there was Dada. By staging Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů’s cheeky one-act opera from 1928 “Tears of the Knife,” Bodhi Tree Concerts‘ and the San Diego Fringe Festival demonstrated that their hearts still belong to Dada . . .
Read MoreRomero Celebrates Schubert in La Jolla
Gustavo Romero makes an ideal ambassador for the piano music of Franz Schubert, which he clearly demonstrated in his Sunday La Jolla Athenaeum solo recital . . .
Read MoreYouth and Virtuosity: A Heady Mix
Concert organist Christopher Houlihan, one of the newly acclaimed rising stars, gave a fair sampling of his wares in recital Tuesday (June 30) for the American Guild of Organists’ West Region Convention . . .
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