Posts Tagged ‘J.S. Bach’
Youth and Virtuosity: A Heady Mix
Concert organist Christopher Houlihan, one of the newly acclaimed rising stars, gave a fair sampling of his wares in recital Tuesday (June 30) for the American Guild of Organists’ West Region Convention . . .
Read MoreKjell Nordeson: Performance Art Percussion in Barrio Logan
Swedish percussionist Kjell Nordeson translated the peripatetic requirement of the orchestral percussionist into solo performance art for Fresh Sound at Bread and Salt Friday (May 1) in Barrio Logan . . .
Read MoreTrifonov a Paragon of Technical Prowess and Poetic Exposition
Exceeding the high expectations of Friday’s (April 10) bustling, capacity audience at La Jolla’s Sherwood Auditorium, 24-year-old Russian piano virtuoso Daniil Trifonov soared with a brilliant recital of Bach, Beethoven and Franz Liszt . . .
Read MoreSDSU Symphony’s New Music of the Night
The San Diego State University Symphony premiered composer Joseph Martin Waters’ “Suite Noir” Sunday (March 22) with soloists from the virtuoso avant-garde performance ensemble Swarmius at SDSU’s Montezuma Hall . . .
Read MoreGil Shaham in the Cathedral of Bach
Gil Shaham’s Friday (Feb. 27) program, devoted exclusively to the unaccompanied violin works of J. S. Bach, created a virtual cathedral of sound in La Jolla’s Sherwood Auditorium . . .
Read MoreDavid Bruce’s Mystical Violin Concerto
No matter how celebrated the composer, a commission is always a gamble. David Bruce’s “Night Parade”— the slightly jazzy, atmospheric tone poem he wrote for the San Diego Symphony’s Carnegie Hall debut and China tour last year—proved amiable, but it was no show-stopper. His new Violin Concerto “Fragile Light,” which Gil Shaham premiered under Music Director Jahja Ling and the San Diego Symphony Friday (Dec. 12), however, struck pay dirt . . .
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