Posts Tagged ‘Balboa Theatre’
Urban and Jookin Animal Ballets Mark Change in Acceptance, Expectation
The San Diego dance scene is exploding with shows featuring modern, hip hop, jook, and ballet, and some are beautiful hybrids. The premiere of “Beyond Babel” and Wynton Marsalis’ “Spaces” are examples of Urban and Jook ballets that mark a change in acceptance and expectation…
Read MoreCellist Johannes Moser Thrills with Tchaikovsky “Variations on a Rococo Theme” at Mainly Mozart
If the most rewarding moments of a Mainly Mozart Festival concert can occur during the performance of music by other composers, Saturday’s (June 16) Mainly Mozart program made a great case for that possibility with Johannes Moser’s brilliant solo in Tchaikovsky’s “Variations on a Rococo Theme,” Op. 33, and Stravinsky’s sparkling “Dumbarton Oaks” Concerto.
Read MoreExplosive ‘Jump Jive’ Sparks California Ballet’s 49th Season
Fasten your seat belts. Jared Nelson, the new assistant artistic director, embraces bold blended styles and gives the company a blast of jet fuel.
Read MoreMusical Genius All in the Family in Fair ‘The Other Mozart’
The evidence is sketchy, but it looks like two of the world’s greatest composers may have met in one of Vienna’s greatest artistic mind-melds. The year was 1787, and a star-struck Ludwig van Beethoven was quaking in his boots; his idol Johann Chrysostomus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had kindly requested an impromptu mini-concert, exchanging a lesson…
Read MoreFor Better or Worse (Mostly Better), Style Beats Substance in Outstanding ‘Rain’
We’re 46 years out from the break-up of the Beatles, and that’s long enough for the legend(s) to settle. Accordingly, Broadway/San Diego’s ‘Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles’ maybe doesn’t defer enough to the boys’ personal history — but man, can this group play!
Read MoreParker and Francis Open Mainly Mozart Festival at Balboa with Panache
Newly minted Mainly Mozart Festival Music Director Michael Francis and keyboard wizard Jon Kimura Parker catapulted the packed Balboa Theatre audience into an ebullient mood Saturday . . .
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