Posts Tagged ‘Alban Berg’
SummerFest Looks for Richard Wagner’s Fingerprints in Chamber Music
“The Wagner Effect” proved a clever title for Sunday afternoon’s SummerFest concert at The Conrad. The eclectic collection of pieces performed to illustrate this concept—not so clever.
Read MoreG.W. Pabst’s ‘Pandora’s Box’ and Organist Russ Peck Mark 90 Years at the Fox Theatre
To celebrate the 90th birthday of the Fox Theatre, now the Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall, JD Smith, curator of silent films for the symphony, chose “Pandora’s Box,” a film released in 1929, the year the Fox opened. Russ Peck, the series’ regular silent film organist, provided his reliably exhilarating and beautifully tailored accompaniment to this classic silent film.
Read MoreSoprano Lise Lindstrom Returns to San Diego Opera Singing her Acclaimed, Signature Turandot
When San Diego Opera General Director David Bennett signed soprano Lise Lindstrom to sing the title role in Puccini’s “Turandot,” he was not exactly going out on a limb. She had performed it with acclaim at her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2009, not to mention a well-received San Diego Opera production in 2011 . . .
Read MoreThe Birthing of a New Opera
“Noon At Dusk” by composer Stephen Lewis sees the light of day at UCSD
Read MoreRomero Celebrates Schubert in La Jolla
Gustavo Romero makes an ideal ambassador for the piano music of Franz Schubert, which he clearly demonstrated in his Sunday La Jolla Athenaeum solo recital . . .
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