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SummerFest Chamber Orchestra in Smart Finale

By Ken Herman | August 23, 2014 |

Violinist Cho-Liang Lin turned what is usually a pleasant journey through the rococo traceries of Mozart’s Second Violin Concerto on Friday’s SummerFest Finale Concert into a profound spiritual journey. . .

The Assad Brothers: Getting Along with Lots of Help from Friends

By Ken Herman | August 21, 2014 |

Classical guitarists Sérgio and Odair Assad returned to SummerFest 2014 bringing a cache of Latin American music, a Charlie Chaplin medley and Chick Corea’s jazzy “No Mystery” . . .

Haydn and Humor Invade La Jolla

By Ken Herman | August 20, 2014 |

Art—so the proverb goes—flourishes on limitations. While most of Franz Joseph Haydn’s musical contemporaries, notably Mozart and Beethoven, flocked to Europe’s 18th-century cultural capital Vienna to expand their musical horizons, poor Haydn worked and composed for the princely Esterházy family on their remote rural estates. Tuesday’s (August 19) SummerFest concert offered a collage of Haydn works that demonstrated the sort of daily fare he churned out for his music-loving employers, including a pair of Baryton Trios. A curious cross between a viola da gamba and a viola d’amore, the baryton bass instrument (which became obsolete even before Haydn’s demise in 1809)…

‘Two Gents’ Trimmed and Polished for Old Globe

By Welton Jones | August 18, 2014 |

Is it possible trim ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’ down to 100 minutes and still deliver the goods? Of course it is.

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