Posts Tagged ‘Conrad Tao’
The Duo of Pianist Conrad Tao and Dancer Caleb Teicher Debuts at The Conrad in La Jolla
Conrad Tao’s Friday sold-out program at The Conrad presented an unusual amalgam of solo piano and tap dance.
Read MoreLa Jolla Music Society Announces Its Impressive 2021-2022 Season of Music and Dance
The La Jolla Music Society announces its exciting 2021-2022 season, a wide panoply of classical music and jazz, modern dance, as well as traditional music from around the world.
Read MoreConrad Tao Offers Brilliant Online Piano Recital Courtesy of the Philharmonic Society of Orange County
Conrad Tao’s exciting Thursday recital (February 11) streamed from his New York City apartment but co-sponsored by the Philharmonic Society of Orange County and Laguna Beach Live continued to burnish the stunning technique and bold programming of this young American pianist.
Read MoreSummerFest’s Sublime Spiritual Journey
Saturday’s La Jolla SummerFest program, “Songs of Heaven and Earth,” clustered major sacred works by J.S. Bach, Olivier Messaien and Gustav Mahler, a combination of composers I cannot recall appearing together on a previous SummerFest program, Both the musical progression and the spiritual journey proved unusually compelling.
Read MoreSummerFest Boldly Mixes George Crumb and Maurice Ravel with Rachmaninoff on Sunday’s Program
Sunday afternoon, SummerFest Music Director Inon Barnatan matched Claude Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s virtuoso, arch-Romantic Sonata in G Minor for Piano and Cello, Op. 19, with George Crumb’s rarely performed 1971 “Vox Balaenae” (“Voice of the Whale”) for amplified flute, cello and piano, and Maurice Ravel’s “Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé.”
Read More2018: A Year of Winning Musical Collaborations Across the City
In 2018, the key players of San Diego’s classical music scene struck gold by collaborating with each other. Enlisting some 10 musical organizations in its month-long “It’s About Time Time” festival in January, the San Diego Symphony set a high bar of cooperation for the coming year, but other organizations readily took up the challenge with rewarding results.
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