Posts Tagged ‘Alex Greenbaum’
Hausmann Quartet Revives the Haydn Voyages Series with Spirited Virtual Concert
San Diego’s Hausmann Quartet performed an online concert on Sunday, September 20, at the Maritime Museum of San Diego’s Berkeley ferry, reviving the quartet’s Haydn Voyages series.
Read MoreArt of Élan’s Compelling Chamber Music for These Distressing Times
Given the shocking cancellations by major San Diego performances slated for this week by San Diego Opera and the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, it was a minor miracle that Art of Élan presented its chamber concert Tuesday, March 10, at the San Diego Museum of Art.
Read MoreHausmann Quartet Spices Its Recent Haydn Voyage with Caroline Shaw and Terry Riley
The adventurous Hausmann Quartet opened its fifth season of Haydn Voyages on the Maritime Museum of San Diego’s Berkeley on Sunday afternoon, February , 2020).
Read MoreArt of Élan pairs Caroline Shaw with Lee Krasner in Abstract Expressionist Gallery at the San Diego Museum of Art
Friday at the San Diego Museum of Art, the musical ensemble Art of Élan offered a short program of music by contemporary American women composers in the museum’s downstairs gallery devoted to art by women Abstract Expressionists.
Read MoreBach Collegium San Diego Brings Compelling Period “Messiah” to The Conrad in La Jolla
The December 22, 2019, performance by the Bach Collegium San Diego of G. F. Handel’s complete “Messiah” in the Baker-Baum Concert Hall of the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla benefited greatly from the new hall’s splendid acoustics, high ceiling and clean sight lines. Of even greater import, the Bach Collegium’s fresh, insightful approach to 18th-century period performance practice gave it uncanny communicative powers to a 21st-century audience.
Read MoreHausmann Quartet Pairs Andrew Norman and Stravinsky with Haydn
Sunday’s November 10, 2019, Hausmann Quartet concert at the Maritime Museum of San Diego continued the ensemble’s traversal of all of the Haydn string quartets. Their program also included Andrew Norman’s “Peculiar Strokes” from 2011 and Igor Stravinsky’s rarely programmed single movement “Concertino” from 1920.
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