Posts Tagged ‘Benjamin Jaber’
De Waart and San Diego Symphony Offer Winning Program of Mahler and Barber
Conductor Edo de Waart’s Friday (March 1) program with the San Diego Symphony brilliantly paired Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with Samuel Barber’s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915,” and together they delivered this package beautifully!
Read MorePayare and Weilerstein Soar in Tchaikovsky in the San Diego Symphony’s Hearing the Future Festival
Brandishing his new title as Music Director Designate, Rafael Payare opened his weekend blitz of San Diego Symphony performances with a stunning concert Thursday at Copley Symphony Hall, the first performance on the orchestra’s month-long “Hearing the Future” festival.
Read MoreJohannes Debus Conducts the San Diego Symphony in Compelling Dvořák Sixth Symphony
With the San Diego Symphony’s dazzling performance of Antonín Dvořák’s Sixth Symphony at Friday’s concert, Dvořák lovers in Copley Symphony Hall were no doubt left swooning. Guest conductor Johannes Debus led an exuberant yet skillfully shaped account of the composer’s one mature symphony that stubbornly remains in the shadow of his mighty Eighth Symphony and beloved Ninth—the “New World.”
Read MoreJoyce Yang and the San Diego Symphony Triumph in the Grieg Piano Concerto
In the first program of the San Diego Symphony’s Jacobs Masterworks Series, October 6, 2018, guest conductor Edo de Waart offered Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and Edvard Grieg’s evergreen Piano Concerto in A Minor with Joyce Yang as soloist.
Read MoreEdo de Waart Finishes San Diego Symphony Season on a Triumphant Note
Guest conductor Edo de Waart’s delightful San Diego Symphony program balanced a tip of the hat to the Bernstein centennial—his evergreen “Candide” Overture—with Francis Poulenc’s show-stopping Concerto for Two Pianos featuring the effusive Naughton sisters and Johannes Brahms’ profound Symphony No. 2 in D Major.
Read MoreGuest Conductor Fabien Gabel Takes San Diego Symphony to New Heights
Under the astute baton of guest conductor Fabien Gabel, Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma and the San Diego Symphony gave a rapturous account on Friday, May 4, of Leonard Bernstein’s “Serenade,” a violin concerto written for no less a violinist than Isaac Stern in memory of the composer’s early mentor, Boston Symphony Music Director Serge Koussevitsky.
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