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La Jolla SummerFest 2024: Thomas Adès and the British Connection
Inon Barnatan, Music Director of the La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, has announced this season’s programming at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center from July 26 to August 24, 2024.
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 MoreString Quartets Rule at Thursday’s SummerFest 2021 Concert
Thursday’s SummerFest 2021 program (August 5) offered two autobiographical string quartets, Bedřich Smetana’s E Minor Quartet “From My Life” and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110.
Read MoreSummerFest’s Sublime Spiritual Journey
Saturday’s La Jolla SummerFest program, “Songs of Heaven and Earth,” clustered major sacred works by J.S. Bach, Olivier Messaien and Gustav Mahler, a combination of composers I cannot recall appearing together on a previous SummerFest program, Both the musical progression and the spiritual journey proved unusually compelling.
Read MoreLa Jolla SummerFest Opens with a Sophisticated Musical Menagerie
This season of La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest brings down the curtain on Music Director Cho-Liang Lin’s superb 18-year tenure with the festival. Friday’s opening concert offered sublime chamber works by Bartók and Villa-Lobos, as well as wit and charm in Saint-Saëns’ “Carnival of the Animals.”
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