MUSIC REVIEWS
With Bandoneon Maestro Raul Jaurena, Camarada Fêtes Piazzolla and Tango
In Tribute to Astor Piazzolla, San Diego’s Camarada ensemble filled La Jolla’s Baker-Baum Concert Hall Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, with the scintillating rhythms and sharp accents of Argentine tango.
Read MoreDaring Multi-Media Composer’s Opera ‘Aging Magician’ Opens on San Diego Opera’s dētour Series
Mozart composed his celebrated fantasy opera “The Magic Flute” in a few months, but composer Paola Prestini took five years to complete her recent chamber opera “Aging Magician,” which San Diego Opera is presenting at the Balboa Theatre on March 13 & 14, 2020.
Read MoreStefan Jackiw Illuminates Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Rafael Payare Unleashes a Heady Shostakovich Symphony No. 11
Having heard the amazing young American violinist Stefan Jackiw play in last season’s La Jolla SummerFest, I was excited to encounter him again Sunday as soloist with the San Diego Symphony under Music Director Rafael Payare in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. He did not disappoint!
Read MoreUC San Diego Celebrates the Music and Influence of Chou Wen-Chung
Under the direction of Steven Schick, UC San Diego’s bravura contemporary ensemble “red fish blue fish” offered in their Wednesday, February 19, concert a fitting homage to the influential late Chinese composer Chou Wen-Chung
Read MoreHausmann Quartet Spices Its Recent Haydn Voyage with Caroline Shaw and Terry Riley
The adventurous Hausmann Quartet opened its fifth season of Haydn Voyages on the Maritime Museum of San Diego’s Berkeley on Sunday afternoon, February , 2020).
Read MoreStrong Voices Grace San Diego Opera’s ‘Hansel and Gretel’ Vividly Staged with Forest Creatures of Day and Night
Saturday, February 8, San Diego Opera opened an unusually imaginative, ingratiating, dramatic production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s 1893 fairy tale opera “Hansel and Gretel” at San Diego Civic Theatre.
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