MUSIC REVIEWS
Saxophone Mastery at the La Jolla Athenaeum
The masterful duo of Mark Turner and Ethan Iverson, appeared at the La Jolla Athenaeum on February 25, 2017, in a concert expertly curated by Dan Atkinson . . .
Read MoreAugustin Hadelich Brilliant in Shostakovich First Violin Concerto with San Diego Symphony
While local audiences respond warmly to highly accomplished performers, they can be a bit chilly to less familiar, modernist repertory of the last century.
Read MoreSan Diego Opera Presents the ‘Carmen’ You Haven’t Seen
In 1981 noted British director Peter Brook applied scalpel and imagination to Bizet’s most famous opera to produce his ‘La Tragédie de Carmen’ which San Diego Opera will open at the Balboa Theatre on Friday, March 10, 2017 . . .
Read MoreArt of Élan: Music and Art in Total Immersion at the Museum of Contemporary Art
While San Diegans were celebrating Mardi Gras in the streets of the Gaslamp District, Art of Élan staged its own fete in another quarter of downtown at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Surrounded by Jennifer Steenkamp’s massive video installation “Madame Curie,” Art of Élan Co-Artistic Director Kate Hatmaker and company played a chamber music concert as mesmerizing as Steenkamp’s undulating flowers . . .
Read MoreSACRA/PROFANA’s Vivid, Moving Choral Cantata by Anthony Davis Soars on Point Loma
The San Diego choral ensemble SACRA/PROFANA gave an impressive performance of Anthony Davis’s profound and jarring cantata “Voyage Through Death to Life Upon These Shores” in a concert at All Souls’ Episcopal Church in Point Loma that also featured the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Choir San Diego . . .
Read MoreBravura Percussion at Fresh Sound in Barrio Logan
For her latest Fresh Sound program, impresario Bonnie Wright brought back the two musicians who inaugurated Fresh Sound exactly 20 years ago—Steve Schick and Vanessa Tomlinson . . .
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