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Bach Collegium San Diego Offers a Rewarding Tribute to Christmas Music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
On December 19, 2021, Artistic Director Ruben Valenzuela and the Bach Collegium San Diego presented a concert devoted to Maarc-Antoine Charpentier’s music at All Souls’ Episcopal Church in Point Loma.
Read MoreSan Diego Symphony Salutes the Season with Noël, Noël Outdoors at The Rady Shell
For the record, we did not hear “Little Drummer Boy” at the San Diego Symphony’s program “Noël, Noël at The Rady Shell” on Friday, December 11, 2021. But it may have been the only familiar holiday song not performed or referenced in the orchestra’s sleekly re-imagined annual Christmas concert, presented for the first time at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park.
Read MoreNew Village Arts Closes an Era with its ‘Black Family Christmas’
1222 Oceanfront may be a fictional Carlsbad address, but 1222 Oceanfront: A Black Family Christmas provides an excellent way of saying “hasta luego” to a company whose facility begins a major renovation after its December 26 closing…
Read MoreBackyard Renaissance’s ‘Witchland’ an Effective Example of a Rare Theatre Genre
I admired the skill and technical ability it took to produce ‘Witchland’, the Backyard Renaissance production currently “haunting” the Tenth Avenue Arts Center…
Read MoreA “My Fair Lady” that Draws Gender Battle Lines
Dripping with sexism and class snobbery, “My Fair Lady” is one of those musicals so grating to 21st century sensibilities, one might feel it should remain on the shelf. Ah, but the Lerner-Loewe tunes are magnificent. And any tale that’s persisted from Greek mythology to Shaw’s “Pygmalion” to “Pretty Woman” clearly touches deep psychological chords.
Enter Bartlett Sher, whose “My Fair Lady” shifts the story’s focus from its Pygmalion, the arrogant Henry Higgins, to Eliza Doolittle as a smart, scrappy woman who insists on dictating the terms of her own life.
Read MoreTenor Arturo Chacón-Cruz Makes His San Diego Debut in Recital with Mariachi Continental de México
Arturo Chacón-Cruz will perform at Escondido’s California Center for the Arts, Friday, December 3, at 7:30 p.m., accompanied by pianist Jeremy Frank and the ensemble Mariachi Continental de México.
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