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Mainly Mozart’s Michael Francis Era: the First Installment Considered

By Ken Herman | June 21, 2015 |

Michael Francis climaxed his first Mainly Mozart Festival with a rousing program that had Saturday’s (June 20) sold-out Balboa Theatre patrons on their feet cheering . . .

New Music from a Lofty Perspective

By Ken Herman | June 20, 2015 |

From the eighth floor Helen Price Reading Room of the San Diego Central Library, the choral music of Folklore Guild and the instrumental third stream of Swarmius floated above the city in a world of their own . . . .

Scarce Painting by Famed Artist Vermeer On View in Balboa Park

By Kraig Cavanaugh | June 18, 2015 |

Johannes Vermeer’s “The Woman in Blue Reading a Letter” now on exhibit at the Timken Museum of Art is one of the artist’s very best paintings, but other images and objects included in the boutique exhibition titled “Vermeer” serve to distract rather than enhance the Dutch Baroque masterpiece. With only thirty-five surviving paintings attributed to this baroque master, the odds of normally seeing one of his jewel-like canvases in San Diego are greater than winning the SuperLotto. This is real jackpot!….

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