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Ken Herman
Ken Herman, a classically trained pianist and organist, has covered music for the San Diego Union, the Los Angeles Times' San Diego Edition, and for sandiego.com. He has won numerous awards, including first place for Live Performance and Opera Reviews in the 2017, the 2018, and the 2019 Excellence in Journalism Awards competition held by the San Diego Press Club. A Chicago native, he came to San Diego to pursue a graduate degree and stayed.Read more…
Perhaps it was because he was not listed on the Musicians page of the Bach Collegium San Diego program.
On Bach Collegium San Diego Previews Its Impressive Concert for Leipzig’s Bach Festival in June
Over the years I have attended numerous productions of this play and know it well, but I was surprised how…
On ‘The Glass Menagerie’ at Diversionary Leaves an Emotional Impact
Thank you Lee for calling the reader's attention to the fine playing and leadership of Concertmaster Elizabeth Blumenstock. I should…
On Bach Collegium San Diego Gives Stirring Concert of C. P. E. Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann
It is quite possible that I was more predisposed to like the Amy Beach chamber work because my colleague Barbara…
On SummerFest Offers An Incomparable Account of Schubert’s E-flat Major Piano Trio
Opera Neo's orchestra boasted 35 players. There was no pit, of course, so Peter Kozma placed his instrumentalists adjacent to…
On Opera Neo Brings Sparkling ‘Barber of Seville’ to Balboa Park’s Spanish Village Art Center
Agreed. I do not know if Busoni believed he was improving the organ pieces that he transcribed to play on…
On Igor Levit Returns to La Jolla in an Impassioned Piano Recital
Thanks, Malou. Marina was a delight to interview: confident, but refreshingly down-to-earth.
On Soprano Marina Costa Jackson Brings Her Puccini Passion to San Diego Opera
This is Inon Barnatan's expanded vision of SummerFest, and I find it refreshing. And not a moment too soon. For…
On Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Smashing San Diego Concert at SummerFest
I wanted to contrast a keyboard concerto in which the solo instrument had a really dominant role, and the Poulenc…
On Payare Opens Summer Season at The Rady Shell with Mussorgsky and a New Piano Concerto by Reinaldo Moya
If you do a bit of Handel research, you will discover that when the composer repeated performances of his oratorios…
On Bach Collegium San Diego Brings Compelling Period “Messiah” to The Conrad in La Jolla