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If parts of Stonehenge and paintings by both Michelangelo and Raphael were at the San Diego Museum of Art, would you go? Objects as mysterious as Stonehenge and artwork as great as those by the famous Renaissance masters are all apart of Chinese history. Stonehenge, a colossal arrangement of stones in Great Britain, is still unknown as to why it was made but the grand effort to erect eighty 5-ton “bluestones,” which came from 200-miles away, and seventy-five 50-ton “sarsens,” which came from 23-miles away, makes the stone-age monument a Neolithic period wonder. Two of the some of the earliest…
Let’s face it. 2012 was by no means a great theatre year. Even so, there was good work that went on in San Diego and elsewhere, despite a disappointing overall result.
We may be immersed in December’s holiday madness, but San Diego Symphony Music Director Jahja Ling has clearly delegated all the orchestra’s seasonal celebration to conductor Matthew Garbutt and his Holiday Pops battalions. No “Messiah” (full or lite), no Christmas oratorios, no seasonal choral samplers this year. Instead, Maestro Ling selected a banquet portion of old favorites for this weekend’s (Dec. 14-16) installment of the Jacobs Masterworks Series: the evergreen Berlioz “Sinfonie fantastique,” Verdi’s roiling Overture to La forza del destino, and Mozart’s cheery Piano Concerto in C Major, K. 467. In terms of musical performance, this choice was a…
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