Posts Tagged ‘Jeremy Kurtz-Harris’
San Diego Symphony’s “To the Earth” Festival Concludes with the Drama and Solace of Evening
The San Diego Symphony’s “To the Earth” online festival concluded Friday with music for Evening, the fitting climax to the previous program themes of Morning and Noon.
Read MoreRafael Payare and Steven Schick Present an Online Kaleidoscope of Morning Music from the Rady Shell
San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare and UC San Diego composer-conductor Steven Schick have assembled three online concerts under the highly programmatic title “To The Earth,” which opened Friday with the first installment, “Morning: Birds and Light.”
Read MoreArt of Élan: Fine Performance Without Applause–an Idea Whose Time Has Come
Questioning the protocol of concert attendance is rarely undertaken, but Kate Hatmaker, Artistic and Executive Director of Art of Élan, made a brave suggestion before the group’s concert Tuesday, May 7, at the San Diego Museum of Art. She asked the audience not to applaud after each of the seven works on the evening’s program. The result proved astounding.
Read MoreArt of Elan Offers Probing Shostakovich and New Works at the San Diego Museum of Art
Art of Élan featured the Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 and newer works by American composers on Tuesday, March 27, 2018, in its concert at the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park.
Read MoreArt of Élan: Music and Art in Total Immersion at the Museum of Contemporary Art
While San Diegans were celebrating Mardi Gras in the streets of the Gaslamp District, Art of Élan staged its own fete in another quarter of downtown at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Surrounded by Jennifer Steenkamp’s massive video installation “Madame Curie,” Art of Élan Co-Artistic Director Kate Hatmaker and company played a chamber music concert as mesmerizing as Steenkamp’s undulating flowers . . .
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