Posts Tagged ‘Johann Strauss’
Opera NEO’s Aria Marathon Opens the Summer Opera Season on Many, Many, Many High Notes
Encountering Opera NEO’s annual Aria Marathon Sunday, July 15, at Palisades Presbyterian Church in Allied Gardens signaled that Opera NEO’s summer festival is again at hand. This marathon is a ritual that gives each singer participating in the five-week festival the opportunity to sing their best opera aria to a captive audience.
Read MoreDavid Danzmayr Leads Disappointing Beethoven Seventh Symphony
The young Austrian conductor David Danzmayr brought a fairly conventional program to the San Diego Symphony Thursday (Feb. 23), opening with Waltz King Johann Strauss, Jr.’s signature “On the Beautiful Blue Danube” and closing with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony . . .
Read MoreThe Music of Outreach in Four Different Keys
To get a sense of how four San Diego musical organizations were engaging in outreach, music critic Ken Herman attended events on Wednesday and Thursday of this week (October 26 & 27) and compiled this report . . .
Read MoreYuja Wang Opens San Diego Symphony Season with Elegant Mozart
Yaja Wang surprised her most ardent followers by opening the San Diego Symphony season performing an early Mozart Piano Concerto . . .
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