MUSIC REVIEWS
On Structure: Percussion Without a Drum in Earshot
At Bread and Salt in Barrio Logan, that venue’s bold, brash current art installation is titled “Sight and Sounds.” Thursday’s Fresh Sound presentation of the percussion duo On Structure at Bread and Salt might have been easily titled “Sight, Sounds and Silence” . . .
Read MoreLondon Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas: a Powerful Combination
Although the popularity of Jean Sibelius’ symphonies has fluctuated wildly over the last century, he is clearly back in vogue, amply demonstrated by the London Symphony’s astute, compelling performance of his Second Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas Sunday (March 29) at the Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall in downtown San Diego . . .
Read MoreSan Diego Symphony: Great Night for Shostakovich but not for J. S. Bach
The San Diego Symphony under the baton of guest conductor Pinchas Zukerman gave a powerful account Friday (March 27) of Dmitri Shostakovich’s monumental Tenth Symphony, which the controversial Soviet composer dared not write until the dictator Joseph Stalin was dead and buried . . .
Read MoreSDSU Symphony’s New Music of the Night
The San Diego State University Symphony premiered composer Joseph Martin Waters’ “Suite Noir” Sunday (March 22) with soloists from the virtuoso avant-garde performance ensemble Swarmius at SDSU’s Montezuma Hall . . .
Read MoreChoral Festival Continues Balboa Park Centennial Festivities
San Diego Sings! Festival 2015, promoted as a massed chorus of 1,000 voices, brought together some 20 San Diego area choirs at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion Saturday (March 21) to premiere Bradley Nelson’s choral fantasy commissioned for Balboa Park’s centennial . . .
Read MorePinchas Zukerman as Soloist and Conductor
Fans of Pinchas Zukerman should have been in seventh heaven Saturday (March 21) at the Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall, hearing the maestro play two Beethoven violin sonatas on the first half of the program and conducting the San Diego Symphony in Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony on the second half . . .
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