Posts Tagged ‘Jean-Fery Rebel’
La Jolla SummerFest’s Sumptuous Banquet of Baroque Program Music
Under the direction of Jonathan Cohen, Friday’s La Jolla SummerFest program ‘Baroque Fantasia’ offered a generous banquet of programmatic Baroque music.
Read MoreMichael Francis and Anne-Marie McDermott Inspire Exotic Fare in Opening Mainly Mozart Festival Concert
Michael Francis opened the 30th installment of San Diego’s annual Mainly Mozart Festival Saturday, June 9, with an ebullient orchestra concert that started with with Jean-Féry Rebel’s harmonically startling, rarely performed Baroque dance suite “Les Élémens,” jumped to Mozart’s Piano Concerto in C Major, K. 415, featuring soloist Anne-Marie McDermott—that composer’s equally assertive attack on late 18th-century Viennese rococo elegance—and closed with Beethoven’s Second Symphony.
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