Posts Tagged ‘Beethoven’
SummerFest 2020 Offers a Moving Afternoon of Beethoven and Mendelssohn
The emotional momentum of the opening two La Jolla SummerFest 2020 concerts came to fruition Sunday afternoon, August 23, in the stirring online performance from The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center.
Read MoreSummerFest 2020 Audaciously Purloins Orchestral Gems
For his second night of SummerFest 2020, Music Director Inon Barnatan boldly commandeered works from the symphonic repertory by Beethoven and Rachmaninoff and made a splendid case for their transmigration into the medium of chamber music.
Read MoreRafael Payare Announces Exciting 2020-21 Season for the San Diego Symphony
If the current absence of live symphonic music at the Jacobs Music Center can be assuaged, I suggest contemplation of San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payere’s recently released 2020-21 season of the Jacobs Masterworks Series is just what the doctor ordered.
Read MoreBell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Salute Beethoven and Paganini at the Jacobs Music Center
The La Jolla Music Society brought the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under the direction of Joshua Bell to San Diego two years ago, and they returned to the Jacobs Music Center in downtown San Diego Monday, March 2.
Read MoreStefan Jackiw Illuminates Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Rafael Payare Unleashes a Heady Shostakovich Symphony No. 11
Having heard the amazing young American violinist Stefan Jackiw play in last season’s La Jolla SummerFest, I was excited to encounter him again Sunday as soloist with the San Diego Symphony under Music Director Rafael Payare in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. He did not disappoint!
Read MoreOpera NEO Offers Mozart, Gounod, and Rameau in Promising 2020 Summer Opera Festival
Following a pattern that has won devoted audiences, the Opera NEO Summer Opera Festival has announced its August 2020 season: two repertory favorites, Charles Gounod’s “Faust” and Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” complemented by a Baroque rarity, Jean Philippe Rameau’s “Platée.”
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