Burt Bacharach – San Diego Story

Payare and the San Diego Symphony Score with Familiar Tchaikovsky and Rare Glimpses of Lili Boulanger

By Ken Herman | October 17, 2021 |

Music Director Rafael Payare’s San Diego Symphony program Saturday at the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park paired Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony with Gustav Mahler’s “Songs of a Wayfarer” and two tone poems by Lili Boulanger.

Camarada’s Sophisticated Bossa Nova Valentine at the Museum of Photographic Arts

By Ken Herman | February 3, 2020 |

Sunday’s program at the Museum of Photographic Arts, a tempting buffet of stylish, jazz-inflected bossa nova selections, demonstrated again the laudable versatility of the chamber ensemble Camarada.

Saxophone Mastery at the La Jolla Athenaeum

By Yochanan Sebastian Winston | March 7, 2017 |

The masterful duo of Mark Turner and Ethan Iverson, appeared at the La Jolla Athenaeum on February 25, 2017, in a concert expertly curated by Dan Atkinson . . .