Posts Tagged ‘Dmitri Shostakovich’
String Quartets Rule at Thursday’s SummerFest 2021 Concert
Thursday’s SummerFest 2021 program (August 5) offered two autobiographical string quartets, Bedřich Smetana’s E Minor Quartet “From My Life” and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110.
Read MoreRafael Payare and Strings of the San Diego Symphony Offer Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Elgar Online
In a laudable effort to keep musicians of the San Diego Symphony playing together and audiences engaged with the orchestra, Music Director Rafael Payere offered another streamed online concert Friday, April 30, from the stage of Copley Symphony Hall.
Read MoreRafael Payare Announces Exciting 2020-21 Season for the San Diego Symphony
If the current absence of live symphonic music at the Jacobs Music Center can be assuaged, I suggest contemplation of San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payere’s recently released 2020-21 season of the Jacobs Masterworks Series is just what the doctor ordered.
Read MoreMusic Organizations Turn to the Internet for Performance Possibilities During the Quarantine
With theaters and concert halls darkened, local arts organizations have decided to put their product to online.
Read MoreStefan Jackiw Illuminates Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Rafael Payare Unleashes a Heady Shostakovich Symphony No. 11
Having heard the amazing young American violinist Stefan Jackiw play in last season’s La Jolla SummerFest, I was excited to encounter him again Sunday as soloist with the San Diego Symphony under Music Director Rafael Payare in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. He did not disappoint!
Read MoreThe Danish String Quartet Opens Its Musically Probing Prism Project at The Conrad
The Danish String Quartet returned to La Jolla Saturday, November 16, bringing a joyful, sonically resplendent Beethoven String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127, and the smoldering intensity of Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat Minor, Opus 144.
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