Esa-Pekka Salonen – San Diego Story

Rafael Payare Conducts the San Diego Symphony in Salonen, Ravel, and Debussy at The Rady Shell

By Ken Herman | May 23, 2022 |

Saturday’s San Diego Symphony concert at The Rady Shell included Esa-Pekka Salonen’s 2010 “Nyx” as well as Impressionist icons by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.

Rafael Payare Announces Exciting 2020-21 Season for the San Diego Symphony

By Ken Herman | April 8, 2020 |

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.

Making Symphony Orchestras Succeed in the Twenty-first Century

By Ken Herman | March 18, 2017 |

Acclaimed classical music critic Ken Herman ruminates on the epicenter move of the classical music world from the East to the West Coast