Posts Tagged ‘Alex Greenbaum’
Hausmann Quartet’s Adventurous Haydn Voyage with Reich’s ‘Different Trains’ and a Stephen Prutsman Premiere
Sunday, September 16, the Hausmann Quartet boldly set sail on the on the next leg of its Haydn Voyages at the San Diego Maritime Museum’s ferry Berkeley. The quartet’s rich program included an exciting new commissioned piece for the ensemble by the American composer Stephen Prutsman.
Read MoreHausmann Quartet Presents Luminous Account of Haydn’s ‘Seven Last Words’ at St. Paul’s Cathedral
The Hausmann Quartet performed Haydn’s most unusual string quartet, “The Seven Last Words of Christ,” Op. 51, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral on March 23, an ideal ambience in which to contemplate the composer’s exalted Lenten meditation.
Read MoreHausmann Quartet Spans the Centuries Gracefully at the Maritime Museum of San Diego
Sunday (February 25), the Hausmann Quartet embarked on another year of its “Haydn Voyages: Music at the Maritime,” playing string quartets by Haydn, Ruth Crawford Seeger and Tina Tallon on the museum’s ferryboat Berkeley
Read MoreSurprising Musical Premieres Courtesy of Art of Élan
Art of Élan’s January 30 concert at Balboa Park’s San Diego Art Institute offered an entire program of new compositions: fresh, engaging, and thought-provoking works, including Lei Liang’s impressive “Petal by Petal, Leaf by Leaf” a trio for flute, viola, and harp.
Read MoreJust What the Doctor Ordered: Art of Élan’s Latin American Voices
Art of Élan’s superbly performed program of Latin American chamber music on Tuesday (November 21), deftly curated by Artistic Director Kate Hatmaker, sent me out of the San Diego Museum of Art elated.
Read MoreSan Diego Opera’s Production of Kaminsky’s Moving, Brilliant ‘As One’
San Diego Opera presents Laura Kaminsky’s 2014 opera “As One”–a transfixing production featuring two magnificent singers and the ebullient Hausmann Quartet–at the Joan B. Kroc Theatre . . .
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