Posts Tagged ‘Cho-Liang Lin’
Bronfman Grotesquely Roars Through Mozart, Schubert and Schumann
After Friday’s uplifting, beautifully crafted opening night SummerFest concert, I was shocked to experience such a tasteless, aggressive musical assault attending SummerFest’s second concert on the following night, August 4, in UC San Diego’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.
Read MoreLa 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 MoreSummerFest’s Sunny Sunday Serenades
Festival programming that runs out of pleasant surprises is likely to overstay its welcome, so SummerFest Music Director Cho-Liang Lin came up with a pair highly unusual offerings by Britten and Elgar for Sunday’s (August 20) afternoon concert at the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall . . .
Read MoreSummerFest Concert Spotlights Gems from Eastern Europe at UC San Diego
Saturday’s, August 5, SummerFest program at UC San Diego’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall offered four stellar pianists, the exciting Miró Quartet, and the wonderful Russian soprano Lyubov Petrova . . .
Read MoreA Touch of Ragtime Lightens the La Jolla SummerFest Regimen
La Jolla SummerFest’s August 21 concert opened with William Bolcom’s charming, droll “Three Rags for String Quartet” and continued with quintets by Mozart and Robert Schumann . . .
Read MoreDanish String Quartet Opens SummerFest with Stunning Janáček Second Quartet
To open the 30th anniversary season of La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, the acclaimed Danish String Quartet offered their dazzling account of Leoš Janáček’s Second String Quartet, “Intimate Letters” . . .
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