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Posts Tagged ‘Franz Liszt’

Pianist Behzod Abduraimov’s Virtuoso Cyclone Strikes The Conrad

By Ken Herman | May 16, 2022 | 0

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.

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Ramirez Rescues Live Performance at the Organ Pavilion While City’s Music Venues Are Darkened

By Ken Herman | March 16, 2020 | 0

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…

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Guest Conductor Michael Francis Brings His Panache to the San Diego Symphony

By Ken Herman | January 19, 2019 | 0

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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Visiting Taiwan Philharmonic Brings Asian and Western Music to San Diego

By Ken Herman | November 1, 2018 | 0

Under the direction of its Music Director Shao-Chia Lü, the Taiwan Philharmonic played a concert at the Jacobs Music Center Wednesday (October 31) midway through its tour of the North American west coast.

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Civic Organist Raúl Prieto Ramírez: Spicing Up the Staid Organ Recital in Balboa Park

By Ken Herman | April 15, 2018 | 0

When the Spanish organist Raúl Prieto Ramírez became San Diego Civic Organist at the beginning of 2018, he made it clear that he intended to bring a fresh approach to programming, and his program Saturday evening, April 14, displayed some of his ideas for revitalizing that staid convention of the organ recital.

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Revolutionary Piano Music from a Revolutionary Pianist: Pierre-Laurent Aimard

By Ken Herman | March 3, 2018 | 2

In an amazing solo recital Thursday at the Balboa Theatre, Pierre-Laurent Aimard gave his account of revolutionary piano music from the last two centuries, anchored in Beethoven’s landmark Hammerklavier Piano Sonata, Op. 106, from 1818.

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