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Charles Ives Visits the Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall
As a coda to its month-long festival of American music, the San Diego Symphony offered an engaging Charles Ives tribute on January 28 that included a performance of his Second Symphony and a multimedia dramatic presentation about Ives created by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . . .
Read MoreGaffigan Leads San Diego Symphony’s Exhilarating Americana Excursion
The young American conductor James Gaffigan led the San Diego Symphony in a delicious, eclectic program Friday (January 27), featuring Samuel Barber’s turbulent neo-Romantic First Symphony, Steven Stuckey’s radiant 2008 “Rhapsodies,” and Morton Gould’s euphoric “Tap Dance Concerto” . . .
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