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Curious and Delightful Finds by Art of Élan at the San Diego Museum of Art

By Ken Herman | March 14, 2019 |

For Art of Élan’s sleekly delivered concert on March 12 at the San Diego Museum of Art, Executive Director Kate Hatmaker selected an unusually amazing musical repast, starting with Georg Phillipp Telemann’s “Gulliver’s Travels” Suite for two violins and ending with a rare string quartet by film score great Nino Rota

Elegant Nostalgia from a True Diva

By Ken Herman | December 13, 2014 |

The obituary for the solo vocal recital has been written so frequently it is a wonder that singers still attempt to present it. This fall, San Diego Opera has demonstrated how to make this supposedly moribund format come to life, and Friday (Dec. 12) mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe entranced her ample audience at the Balboa Theatre . . .