Posts Tagged ‘Béla Bartók’
La 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.”
Read MoreSteven Schick, the San Diego Symphony and the Music of Takemitsu: a Match Made in Heaven
Although a few events remain in San Diego’s “It’s About Time” music festival, Festival Curator Steven Schick pulled out all the stops for his last festival appearance conducting the San Diego Symphony Sunday, January 28, at the Jacobs Music Center . . .
Read MoreSummerFest’s Glorious Feast of Hungarian Music from the 20th Century
La Jolla SummerFest’s outstanding program devoted to Hungarian music (August 8) included Kodály’s 1914 Duo for Violin and Cello and Bartók’s Fourth String Quartet . . .
Read MoreBartók’s Third Piano Concerto Returns to San Diego Symphony After 45-year Absence
This weekend, the dashing young German conductor-composer Matthias Pintscher and the Russian-born pianist Kirill Gerstein visitted the San Diego Symphony for Béla Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto. Pintscher led the orchestra in vivid performances of Anton Webern’s early tone poem “Im Sommerwind” . . .
Read MoreBach und nach: Pianist Brad Mehldau in La Jolla
Jazz pianist and composer Brad Mehldau gave a remarkable recital of music by J. S. Bach interspersed with his own works and improvisations inspired by those of Bach . . .
Read MoreSan Diego Symphony Shines Under Baton of Dazzling Young Lahav Shani
There are occasions at Copley Symphony Hall when everything goes right, and this weekend’s concerts with Israeli guest conductor Lahav Shani qualified with ease. The combination of a beautifully designed program with
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