Posts Tagged ‘Heitor Villa-Lobos’
Camarada Celebrates Exciting New Music and New Art at Park & Market in the East Village
Camarada, San Diego’s intrepid chamber ensemble, returned to UC San Diego Park & Market on Saturday to present an engaging concert that included the premiere of their commissioned work from Stefan Cwik.
Read MoreLa Jolla SummerFest Opens with a Sophisticated Musical Menagerie
This season of La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest brings down the curtain on Music Director Cho-Liang Lin’s superb 18-year tenure with the festival. Friday’s opening concert offered sublime chamber works by Bartók and Villa-Lobos, as well as wit and charm in Saint-Saëns’ “Carnival of the Animals.”
Read MoreBranford Marsalis and Chicago’s Kontras Quartet Shine at Art of Élan
Sunday, April 8, 2018, at the Music Box in Little Italy, Art of Élan presented saxophone legend Branford Marsalis with the Chicago-based Kontras Quartet.
Read MoreJust What the Doctor Ordered: Art of Élan’s Latin American Voices
Art of Élan’s superbly performed program of Latin American chamber music on Tuesday (November 21), deftly curated by Artistic Director Kate Hatmaker, sent me out of the San Diego Museum of Art elated.
Read MoreSongs Instrumental and Vocal
Mention the composer Ottorino Respighi, and most music aficionados will reel off a list of massive orchestral works, especially those throbbing tone poems depicting the city of Rome. But the early 20th-century composer has another more intimate and subtle side: Respighi the chamber music maestro. This was the visage that smiled on Art of Élan’s season-opening program . . .
Read MoreLatin American Musical Tribute at UC San Diego
Renowned Venezuelan conductor Maria Guinand led the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus is a program of Latin American music on Saturday (March 15) at UC San Diego’s Mandeville Auditorium. With its characteristic rhythms and textures as well as its ties to indigenous music, this repertory . . .
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