Home Page

San
Diego
Story

SummerFest 2020 Offers a Moving Afternoon of Beethoven and Mendelssohn

By Ken Herman | August 24, 2020 |

The emotional momentum of the opening two La Jolla SummerFest 2020 concerts came to fruition Sunday afternoon, August 23, in the stirring online performance from The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center.

SummerFest 2020 Audaciously Purloins Orchestral Gems

By Ken Herman | August 23, 2020 |

For his second night of SummerFest 2020, Music Director Inon Barnatan boldly commandeered works from the symphonic repertory by Beethoven and Rachmaninoff and made a splendid case for their transmigration into the medium of chamber music.

SummerFest 2020 Opens Online With Rewarding Schubert and Ives

By Ken Herman | August 22, 2020 |

The La Jolla Music Society’s scaled down SummerFest 2020 opened online from The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla on Friday, August 21.

Bodhi Tree Concerts Salutes the Struggle for Women’s Suffrage in a Festive Online Musical Banquet

By Ken Herman | August 21, 2020 |

Bodhi Tree Concerts chose the final day of the National Democratic Convention, August 20, to offer “Songs of Suffrage,” a charming online concert of songs that celebrate this 100-year anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment.