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Music Performance and the Visual Arts Collide Creatively at SummerFest
Thursday’s SummerFest 2019 theme at The Conrad-–Music at an Exhibition—explored the connection between the visual arts and music performance. Zach Smithey’s bold brushstrokes moved to the music of Biber, Ravel, and J. S. Bach in one hall, while in the main concert hall Inon Barnatan gave a thrilling performance of Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.”
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 More2018: A Year of Winning Musical Collaborations Across the City
In 2018, the key players of San Diego’s classical music scene struck gold by collaborating with each other. Enlisting some 10 musical organizations in its month-long “It’s About Time Time” festival in January, the San Diego Symphony set a high bar of cooperation for the coming year, but other organizations readily took up the challenge with rewarding results.
Read MoreCellist Alisa Weilerstein Soars with Bach and Brahms at La Jolla SummerFest
In the final La Jolla SummerFest chamber music concert, cellist Alisa Weilerstein exuded charisma and intensity in addition to her superb technique and sympathetic musicianship . . .
Read MoreSummerFest Concert Spotlights Gems from Eastern Europe at UC San Diego
Saturday’s, August 5, SummerFest program at UC San Diego’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall offered four stellar pianists, the exciting Miró Quartet, and the wonderful Russian soprano Lyubov Petrova . . .
Read MoreInon Barnatan Soars in Two Piano Concertos to Open San Diego Symphony’s American Music Month
The splendid Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan electrified the San Diego Symphony audience Friday (January 6) playing Piano Concertos by Aaron Copland and Andrew Norman . . .
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