Posts Tagged ‘Alan Gilbert’
La Jolla SummerFest 2023 Opens with a Splendid Cache of Unexpected Music
With the program title Expect the Unexpected, Music Director Inon Barnatan opened La Jolla SummerFest 2023 Friday with a bevy obscure compositions.
Read MoreInon Barnatan’s Boundary-Crossing Vision for SummerFest 2023
Music Director Inon Barnatan has filled La Jolla’s month-long SummerFest 2023 with numerous delectable surprises, including the noted British composer Thomas Adès as composer-in-residence and programming Barnatan’s own arrangement of Freddie Mercury’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’
Read MoreMaking Symphony Orchestras Succeed in the Twenty-first Century
Acclaimed classical music critic Ken Herman ruminates on the epicenter move of the classical music world from the East to the West Coast
Read MoreThe New York Philharmonic Praises Beethoven and Sibelius at Copley Symphony Hall
The visit of Music Director Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic to Copley Symphony Hall Wednesday (May 4) made a compelling case both for the music of Jean Sibelius and for the artistic level of the orchestra under Gilbert’s leadership . . .
Read MoreGrimaud and Nézet-Séguin Collaborate in Muscular Ravel Piano Concerto
The program headlined the Rotterdam Philharmonic, but I daresay most of the La Jolla Music Society’s audience Friday at Copley Symphony Hall came to see the exuberant French-Canadian conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin . . .
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