Posts Tagged ‘Edward Elgar’
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 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 MoreAt Long Last the Spreckels Organ Regains Its Title Among Really Big Organs
On Saturday (April 23) the Spreckels Organ Society’s concert with Civic Organist Carol Williams celebrated the addition of the four new ranks (i.e., rows that now allow Balboa Park’s treasured Spreckels Organ to rightfully claim the title of the world’s largest outdoor pipe organ
Read MoreLessons and Carols with a Dream Choir
San Diego Pro Arte Voices and Music Director Patrick Walders gave superb performances of British Christmas carols and anthems in ‘An Evening of Readings and Carols’ at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Pacific Beach . . .
Read MoreEdo de Waart Offers Elgar with Breadth and Eschews Victorian Pomposity
Filling in for an ailing Sir Neville Marriner, the authoritative Dutch conductor Edo de Waart served up Mikhail Glinka and Edward Elgar with breadth and evident affection . . .
Read MoreSan Diego’s Next Wave: Collaboration
Sunday (October 19) at La Mesa’s St. Martin of Tours Church, the recently formed choral group Folklore shared a program with Joseph Martin Waters’ avant-garde ensemble Swarmius, evidence of a new collaborative spirit among San Diego music ensembles and organizations. . .
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