MUSIC REVIEWS
Online NWEAMO 2021 Festival Offers Bountiful Array of Music Styles and Visual Invention
The NWEAMO 2021 new music festival presented its entire festival online Sunday afternoon, May 2, 2021. Although it tested the alert concentration and comprehension of even devoted new music followers, it offered an impressive array of musical and visual stimulation.
Read MoreSound Outweighs Sight at the Drive-In Opera
It is not necessarily productive to try to watch the stage…the best thing…was the pleasure of listening…
Read MoreBarnatan, Weilerstein and Quint Bring Vibrant Chamber Music to The Conrad’s Courtyard
Now that the pandemic’s restrictions on public gathering are beginning to relax, on Saturday, April 10, the La Jolla Music Society boldly opened its new outdoor chamber series in The Conrad’s Wu Tsai QRT.yard.
Read MoreCamarada Brings Live Performance with Audience (!) Back to Bread and Salt
Titling Camarada’s 2020-2021 season as well as this Sunday concert Unstoppable, their program at Bread and Salt featured engaging but lesser known composers of the 20th and 21st Century—with the exception of a spirited closing number by the adored Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla.
Read MorePenderecki’s ‘Adagio for Strings’ Made Friday’s San Diego Symphony Online Concert Exceptional
In Friday’s streamed concert from the Jacobs Music Center, San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare and the orchestra performed Penderecki’s 2013 “Adagio for Strings” as well as works by Mozart and Dvořák.
Read MoreA Little Night Music from Art of Élan at the San Diego Museum of Art
Art of Élan’s bracing outdoor chamber concert in the San Diego Museum of Art’s May S. Marcy Sculpture Court and Garden offered yet another option for live performance under pandemic restrictions.
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