MUSIC REVIEWS
Shostakovich and Other Russians in La Jolla
SummerFest Music Director Cho-Liang Lin titled Saturday’s all-Russian concert “Homage to Tchaikovsky,” a savvy marketing ploy that hid the most compelling piece on the program . . .
Read MoreEasy-Listening Opens La Jolla SummerFest 2014
La Jolla’s chic Prospect St. is lined with gourmet restaurants that feature a wide array of gastronomical pleasures, but at the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Sherwood Auditorium, Friday’s opening concert of SummerFest 2014 offered wall-to-wall comfort food . . .
Read MoreDeadly Sins, Seductive Dance, and Divorce Musical: Fringe Fest 2014 Invades Downtown
Dancers slink in sheer blue nighties like Sirens of a swamp. Lovely poses and elegant bodies become convulsive and combative. In shadows instead of mud, the gorgeous women wrestle and pin each other down with great force. Their dresses are sheer but tough enough for NASA…
Read MoreLots of Promise at the First Day of the Fringe
The San Diego International Fringe Festival, which took the city by storm a year ago, is back. If the four shows I saw on opening day yesterday are any indication, this year is as good as or better than last…
Read MoreJustin Brown Brings Ebullient Beethoven 4th Symphony to Mainly Mozart Festival
English conductor Justin Brown won high marks for versatility in his debut with the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra Saturday (June 21) at the Balboa Theatre, where he conducted Beethoven’s Four Symphony and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in D Minor . . .
Read MoreMainly Mozart’s Mexican Option
American orchestras have always had a penchant for hiring foreign conductors as music directors. On Wednesday (June18), Mexican maestro Carlos Miguel Prieto cast his hat into the Mainly Mozart Festival ring, leading the Festival Orchestra in an exuberant and insightful account of Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert . . .
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