Posts Tagged ‘John Novacek’
Pushing the Envelope: Enticing New Music at La Jolla SummerFest
Thursday, August 16, La Jolla SummerFest featured Marc-André Dalbavie’s stunning Quartet for Piano and Strings, a La Jolla Music Society commission premiered here in 2012, and paired it with Pierre Jalbert’s 2017 Piano Quintet, an equally impressive work which the La Jolla Music Society co-commissioned.
Read MoreA Sumptuous Banquet of Lin’s Favorites at La Jolla SummerFest
The August 14 SummerFest concert offered an embarrassment of riches, from the warmth and allure of Joaquin Turina’s “Escena Andaluza,” to Claude Debussy’s profound yet unsentimental Cello Sonata, to Lei Liang’s extravagantly exciting new “Vis-à-vis” for Pipa and Percussion, to Gustav Mahler’s transcendent Rückert-Lieder song cycle to Alberto Ginestera’s breathtaking String Quartet No. 1.
Read MoreLa Jolla SummerFest Gives Shostakovich His Due in Two Illuminating Concerts
La Jolla SummerFest completed its Shostakovich intensive with two powerful concerts of chamber music of the highest caliber August 22 & 23 . . .
Read MoreBrilliant Opening of Shostakovich Intensive in La Jolla
Friday’s (August 21) all-Shostakovich program at La Jolla SummerFest demonstrated how well the composer’s enigmatic qualities and quietly profound instincts have served him in history’s larger time line . . .
Read MorePlaying Beethoven in the Computer Era
The Borromeo String Quartet demonstrated unequivocally how using the computer can improve the performance of Beethoven’s monumental String Quartet, Op. 130 . . .
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