Posts Tagged ‘Erik Behr’
Michael Francis and Anne-Marie McDermott Inspire Exotic Fare in Opening Mainly Mozart Festival Concert
Michael Francis opened the 30th installment of San Diego’s annual Mainly Mozart Festival Saturday, June 9, with an ebullient orchestra concert that started with with Jean-Féry Rebel’s harmonically startling, rarely performed Baroque dance suite “Les Élémens,” jumped to Mozart’s Piano Concerto in C Major, K. 415, featuring soloist Anne-Marie McDermott—that composer’s equally assertive attack on late 18th-century Viennese rococo elegance—and closed with Beethoven’s Second Symphony.
Read MoreMainly Mozart Wind Players Flaunt Their Prowess in Chamber Concert
In a chamber music concert, members of the Mainly Mozart Festival orchestra gave vivid, yet immaculately focused performances of Beethoven and Mozart on Friday (June 23) at the Auditorium at TSRI in La Jolla . . .
Read MoreSchubert and Mozart: the Teen Years Exposed
Wednesday’s Mainly Mozart program at the Balboa Theatre balanced offerings of early Mozart with early Schubert, a logical pairing that showed each composer’s youthful exuberance and hints of deeper musical expression . . .
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