Posts Tagged ‘Franz Liszt’
Korean Pianist Seong-Jin Cho Triumphs with Amazing Ravel and Liszt in La Jolla Recital
Pianist Seong-Jin Cho returned to The Conrad in downtown La Jolla on Sunday in a mesmerizing, bravura solo recital.
Read MoreKen Cowan’s Virtuoso Recital Dedicates La Jolla’s New Rosales/Parsons Pipe Organ
Sunday at St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in La Jolla, Ken Cowan played the Dedication Recital of the new Rosales/Parsons Organ.
Read MoreSummerFest Looks for Richard Wagner’s Fingerprints in Chamber Music
“The Wagner Effect” proved a clever title for Sunday afternoon’s SummerFest concert at The Conrad. The eclectic collection of pieces performed to illustrate this concept—not so clever.
Read MorePianist Behzod Abduraimov’s Virtuoso Cyclone Strikes The Conrad
Pianist Behzod Abduraimov performed a virtuoso solo recital Sunday at The Conrad, the final offering of the La Jolla Music Society’s 2021—22 Piano Series.
Read MoreRamirez Rescues Live Performance at the Organ Pavilion While City’s Music Venues Are Darkened
San Diego concert halls were dark this weekend in compliance with the growing restrictions on public gathering due to the spread of the coronavirus. San Diego’s prized Spreckels Organ, however, has no hall and plays into the spacious outdoor setting of Balboa Park, so Civic Organist Raúl Prieto Ramirez took advantage of his unique venue…
Read MoreGuest Conductor Michael Francis Brings His Panache to the San Diego Symphony
With numerous 20th-century and newer works played in the San Diego Symphony’s current “Hearing the Future” festival, I felt a sense of backsliding attending Michael Francis’s program of familiar standard repertory from the early 19th century Friday, January 18, at the San Diego Symphony.
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