Posts Tagged ‘Felix Mendelssohn’
SummerFest and the Miró Quartet Celebrate Composer Caroline Shaw
Wednesday at this year’s La Jolla SummerFest, the Miró Quartet featured music by Caroline Shaw with the composer present and also accompanied her singing two of her works.
Read MoreSan Diego Symphony and Bassist Jeremy Kurtz-Harris Give Splendid Account of Andrés Martín’s Double Bass Concerto
Thursday, April 21, 2022, the San Diego Symphony under guest conductor Ankush Kumar Bahl performed at the Joan B. Kroc Theater in La Mesa.
Read MoreGustavo Romero Returns in Splendid Form to the La Jolla Athenaeum
The return of Gustavo Romero and his annual piano recital series to the La Jolla Athenaeum Sunday, October 3, is yet another welcome sign that San Diego’s classical music scene is reviving after its pandemic shutdown.
Read MoreSummerFest 2021 Opening Concert: A Shimmering Stylistic Sampler
SummerFest 2021, the La Jolla Music Society’s prestigious annual summer music festival, opened Friday, July 30, with a marathon program that boasted music from 10 composers, required 15 onstage musicians, and lasted two and one-half hours.
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 MoreSummerFest 2020 Offers a Moving Afternoon of Beethoven and Mendelssohn
The emotional momentum of the opening two La Jolla SummerFest 2020 concerts came to fruition Sunday afternoon, August 23, in the stirring online performance from The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center.
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