MUSIC REVIEWS
An Evening with the Regina Carter Quartet at La Jolla Music Summerfest 2017
Jazz Violinist Regina Carter and her quartet performed an excellent show at the UC San Diego’s Prebys Concert Hall on Saturday night . . .
Read MoreSummerFest’s Sunny Sunday Serenades
Festival programming that runs out of pleasant surprises is likely to overstay its welcome, so SummerFest Music Director Cho-Liang Lin came up with a pair highly unusual offerings by Britten and Elgar for Sunday’s (August 20) afternoon concert at the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall . . .
Read MoreParker and Lin Fire First Salvo in SummerFest’s Beethoven Violin Sonata Marathon
Violinist Cho-Liang Lin and pianist Jon Kimura Parker delivered Tuesday (August 15) the first of four Summerfest 2017 concerts dedicated to playing all 10 Beethoven Violin Sonatas . . .
Read MoreMasterful Brahms and Mendelssohn from Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
To a very traditional program of Mendelssohn and Brahms they brought that unfailing ensemble unity that comes from extensive living with repertory
Read MoreGluck’s Rarely Seen Opera ‘Armide’ — A Feast For Ear and Eye
Opera NEO Artistic Director gave San Diego opera buffs a chance to experience Christoph Willibald Gluck’s rarely staged 1777 tragedy “Armide” . . .
Read MoreLa Jolla SummerFest Contrasts Tan Dun and Stravinsky at Athenaeum Concert
The articulate and ever perceptive program annotater Eric Bromberger hosted Thursday’s (August 10) event that featured the Ulysses Quartet and pipa virtuosa Wu Man.
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