MUSIC REVIEWS
SummerFest 2024 Salutes Dance Suites from Bach to Piazzolla
Bravura solos and dazzling duos thrilled the La Jolla SummerFest audience at The Conrad on Sunday, August 4.
Read MoreLa Jolla SummerFest’s Sumptuous Banquet of Baroque Program Music
Under the direction of Jonathan Cohen, Friday’s La Jolla SummerFest program ‘Baroque Fantasia’ offered a generous banquet of programmatic Baroque music.
Read MoreSummerFest 2024 Explores Flamenco Flair in Contemporary Chamber Music
Thursday’s La Jolla SummerFest concert at The Conrad celebrated the three faces of Thomas Adès, this year’s composer-in-residence: composer, pianist, and conductor.
Read MoreLa Jolla SummerFest Celebrates the Music of Leoš Janáček
SummerFest Music Director Inon Barnatan devoted much of Sunday’s SummerFest program at The Conrad to Leoš Janáček’s instrumental music.
Read MoreSummerFest 2024 Offers A Choice ‘Danse Macabre’
Saturday’s La Jolla SummerFest program provided both challenging modernist works by Martin Butler and Thomas Adès as well as standard repertory by Schubert and Ravel.
Read MoreLa Jolla SummerFest Opens: A ‘Deal with the Devil’ Provides Heavenly Results
SummerFest Music Director Inon Barnatan opened this year’s festival on Friday with an evening of Satanic music cleverly titled ‘A Deal with the Devil.’
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