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Is there a living violinist other than Gil Shaham I would rather hear perform a solo recital? The unhesitating answer is no, even considering the bevy of stellar contemporary violinists that quickly come to mind. Shaham and his superb Japanese accompanist Akira Eguchi gave a brilliant—make that transcendent—program at Copley Symphony Hall Thursday (Feb. 7), a balance of classic and new repertory whose masterful execution was exceeded only by their evident conviction of the significance of their offerings. Opening with J. S. Bach’s Partita No. 3 in E Major for Solo Violin, BWV 1006, and closing with Beethoven’s A Major…
Circle Circle dot dot, a newish theatre collective that presents company-created material, has decided to try something site-specific. The result is San Diego. I Love You, which is being presented to the public this weekend and next. It’s a pleasant hour-long afternoon stroll through the varieties of young love in Hillcrest.
A modern interpretation of a classic text swept its nominated categories to receive five Craig Noel Awards tonight. Moxie Theatre parlayed three strong 2012 productions to take home the Braunagel Award for outstanding contribution to the San Diego arts scene by a small-budget theatre.
Could a Caravaggio painting, which turned out not to be a Caravaggio, become a Caravaggio painting again? If this all sounds very confusing, that is because it is! This “now you see it, now you don’t, now you might see it again” scenario is actually fairly common in the art world’s circle of scholarly debate. A painted portrait of a woman supposedly created by Caravaggio was purchased by the generous Anne R. and Amy Putnam sisters. Then they donated the portrait to the San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) in 1942. Later, scholars decided that the woman’s portrait was actually…
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