Posts Tagged ‘Gustav Mahler’
Payare and the San Diego Symphony Score with Familiar Tchaikovsky and Rare Glimpses of Lili Boulanger
Music Director Rafael Payare’s San Diego Symphony program Saturday at the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park paired Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony with Gustav Mahler’s “Songs of a Wayfarer” and two tone poems by Lili Boulanger.
Read MoreSan Diego Symphony Opens Jacobs Masterworks at the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park with Powerful Mahler and Ravel Concert
Friday, October 8, 2021, the San Diego Symphony opened its Jacobs Masterworks Series with Music Director Rafael Payare conducting Mahler’s First Symphony and the Ravel G Major Piano Concerto with Inon Barnatan as soloist.
Read MoreRafael Payare Leads the San Diego Symphony in Superb Concert of Mozart and Mahler
Friday’s San Diego Symphony Concert revealed that the romance between the Symphony and its new Music Director Rafael Payare continues to flourish. And San Diego audiences are responding with a spirited zeal that has taken residence in Copley Symphony Hall only since Payare’s advent.
Read MoreNew San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare Thrills with Mahler’s Fifth Symphony
New Music Director Rafael Payere thrilled the sold-out audience at Copley Symphony Hall Saturday leading the San Diego Symphony in an electric, emotionally riveting account of Gustav Mahler’s monumental Fifth Symphony.
Read MoreSummerFest’s Sublime Spiritual Journey
Saturday’s La Jolla SummerFest program, “Songs of Heaven and Earth,” clustered major sacred works by J.S. Bach, Olivier Messaien and Gustav Mahler, a combination of composers I cannot recall appearing together on a previous SummerFest program, Both the musical progression and the spiritual journey proved unusually compelling.
Read MoreSteven Schick Leads Stirring, Probing Account of Bernstein’s “Kaddish” Symphony with La Jolla Symphony
After a rugged and stirring performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3, “Kaddish,” by the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus Saturday, March 16, I left UC San Diego’s Mandeville Auditorium refreshed and uplifted. Bernstein’s “Kaddish” Symphony, based on the ancient Hebrew prayer for the dead, takes the listener on a probing and at times exalting journey.
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