Posts Tagged ‘Benjamin Jaber’
Cellist Andrei Ioniță Amazes in Elgar Cello Concerto with the San Diego Symphony
Friday’s San Diego Symphony concert turned out to be an evening of thrilling rhapsodies, crowned by Edward Elgar’s rhapsodic Cello Concerto featuring 24-year-old International Tchaikovsky Competition prize winner Andrei Ioniță.
Read MoreEdo de Waart Leads San Diego Symphony in Impressive Season-Opening Concert
Esteemed conductor Edo de Waart returned to the San Diego Symphony Friday to lead the orchestra through an impassioned season-opening concert at the Jacobs Music Center . . .
Read MoreLing and the San Diego Symphony: A Mahler III to Remember!
On Friday, May 5, Maestro Jahja Ling commenced his valedictory month as San Diego Symphony Music Director with a sweeping and at times sumptuous account of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 in D Minor . . .
Read MoreLang Lang Brings Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto to the Jacobs Music Center
Lang Lang’s return to the Jacobs Music Center on Sunday (February 5) was greeted with the expected fervid applause even before he and the San Diego Symphony delivered an equally passionate account of Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto . . .
Read MorePeter Oundjian Brings Vibrant New John Adams Work to the Jacobs Music Center
Canadian conductor Peter Oundjian brought a well-matched program of John Adams and Gustav Holst to the San Diego Symphony Saturday (December 3) at the Jacobs Music Center. Because he chose Adams’ recent “Doctor Atomic Symphony” and his Holst selection was “The Planets,” Oundjian cleverly titled his program “Adams, Atoms and Planets” . . .
Read MoreMalashock Dance Brings Symphony Commission to Life
Dance ruled at the San Diego Symphony’s concerts this weekend (March 18-20) with a powerful account of Stravinsky’s Suite from “The Firebird” and the premiere of a Gabriela Lena Frank’s “Five Scenes” danced by seven members of Malashock Dance . . .
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