Posts Tagged ‘Andrew Wan’
SummerFest 2024 Offers A Choice ‘Danse Macabre’
Saturday’s La Jolla SummerFest program provided both challenging modernist works by Martin Butler and Thomas Adès as well as standard repertory by Schubert and Ravel.
Read MoreSummerFest 2023 Bids Farewell with Concert of Max Bruch and Tchaikovsky–and Freddie Mercury!
SummerFest’s final 2023 concert on Saturday brought a 17-member string orchestra to The Conrad’s stage to offer Max Bruch’s Concerto for Clarinet and Viola and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings.
Read MoreMagnificent Account of Shostakovich Piano Trio Crowns SummerFest ‘Unsilenced Voices’ Concert
With the exception of Dmitri Shostakovich’s stark Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Friday’s SummerFest program offered a stimulating variety of music outside of the standard repertory.
Read MoreMark Morris Dance Group Soars at SummerFest 2019
Eye, ear, and imagination have never been so simultaneously deluged in SummerFest’s 33 years of programming as they were Wednesday, August 21, with the Mark Morris Dance Group taking center stage at The Conrad.
Read MoreSummerFest’s Glowing Concert of French Music from Gounod to Ravel
The La Jolla SummerFest concert on August 21 presented a beautifully performed program that captured that late Romantic flowering of French chamber music from Charles Gounod to Maurice Ravel.
Read MoreA Touch of Ragtime Lightens the La Jolla SummerFest Regimen
La Jolla SummerFest’s August 21 concert opened with William Bolcom’s charming, droll “Three Rags for String Quartet” and continued with quintets by Mozart and Robert Schumann . . .
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