Posts Tagged ‘Gerard McBurney’
Prokofiev’s Wondrous ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Ballet Interrupted by the Bard of Avon
Friday, San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare and the orchestra offered Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet ‘Romeo and Juliet’ interspersed by scenes from Shakespeare’s play based on the story of this tragic couple.
Read MoreThe San Diego Symphony Brings Wagner to the Rady Shell
At the Rady Shell on Saturday the San Diego Symphony presented Act I of Richard Wagner’s second Ring Cycle opera, ‘Die Walküre.’
Read MoreSan Diego Symphony’s ‘Beyond the Score’ Program on Rachmaninoff Prepares Audience for Music History Exam at Next Symphony Concert
Just as Robert Indiana’s familiar 1970 Love Sculpture became an apt symbol of the 1970s, the Swiss artist Arnold Böklin’s evocative painting “The Isle of the Dead” from 1880 captured the darker, mystical imaginings of fin de siècle Europe. Sergei Rachmaninoff turned Böklin’s painting into a dark tone poem, which he also titled “The Isle of the Dead” . . .
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