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If you pose the question about the place of Edward Elgar in the musical pantheon, you are likely get a conflicting barrage of answers. To some he is that great late Romantic voice who restored “English” as a credible adjective to the noun “composer.” To others he is only a second tier craftsman, and to others he remains a bombastic, sentimental relic of faded Edwardian grandeur. Conductor Keith Lockhart and the BBC Concert Orchestra brought their travelling Elgar tribute to Copley Symphony Hall Friday (Feb. 15), making their case for Elgar the master with confident interpretations of his “Enigma Variations”…
Sylvia M’lafi Thompson has been getting a lot of acclaim in the past few years for her work in San Diego productions such as Fences and Our Town. Her acting deserves to be praised once again, in the New Village Arts Theatre’s interpretation of The Trip to Bountiful.
“A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down,” the opening line of a breezy song from a child-friendly movie of yore, sprang to mind when I perused Friday’s (Feb. 8) San Diego Symphony program. An obscure, 30-minute tone poem “Mississippi River Suite” by the nearly forgotten African-American composer Florence Price was the medicine, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s numbingly familiar “Scheherazade” was the spoonful of sugar on Taiwanese conductor Mei-Ann Chen’s prescription for her inaugural appearance on the local podium. Between these two tone poems, the orchestra’s Principal Horn Benjamin Jaber came front and center to give his take on Richard Strauss’…
Together, Moxie Theatre and Mo’olelo Performing Arts make a potent combination, resulting in a vibrant telling of a story by a living Nobel Laureate.
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