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SummerFest Commission Offers More Visual Surprises Than Musical Reward

By Ken Herman | August 20, 2021 |

Thursday’s SummerFest 2021 program at The Conrad in La Jolla brought the long-awaited première of Tamar Muskal’s ‘Facing the Automaton’ commissioned by the La Jolla Music Society and performed with virtuoso percussionist Steven Schick as soloist.

SummerFest’s Glowing Concert of French Music from Gounod to Ravel

By Ken Herman | August 23, 2018 |

The La Jolla SummerFest concert on August 21 presented a beautifully performed program that captured that late Romantic flowering of French chamber music from Charles Gounod to Maurice Ravel.

Bold and Bravura Chamber Music at Mainly Mozart

By Ken Herman | March 7, 2015 |

Mainly Mozart teamed the powerhouse pianist Anne-Marie McDermott and equally assertive violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg with the rambunctious Miami String Quartet to produce a virtual tsunami of sound at La Jolla’s Auditorium at TSRI.