Posts Tagged ‘La Jolla’
Easy-Listening Opens La Jolla SummerFest 2014
La Jolla’s chic Prospect St. is lined with gourmet restaurants that feature a wide array of gastronomical pleasures, but at the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Sherwood Auditorium, Friday’s opening concert of SummerFest 2014 offered wall-to-wall comfort food . . .
Read MoreEarly Handel Oratorio a Rewarding Surprise in La Jolla
It is no secret why the world’s major opera houses do not present the earliest operas of Wagner, Verdi, and Puccini–they’re terrible. It took these great composers several attempts to hone their craft on the road to becoming great composers, but George Frideric Handel was brilliant from the get-go, as his 1707 IL TRIONFO del TEMPO e del DISINGANNO, presented by Ruben Valenzuela’s Bach Collegium San Diego on May 30, clearly proves . . .
Read MoreFrench Curves Bared at R.B. Stevenson Gallery
Using a bright 1960s flower power palette, Ricardo Xavier paints floral designs with meticulous care in his current exhibition entitled “Kinetic Contrasts” at La Jolla’s R.B. Stevenson Gallery. Xavier creates his ornate canvases by using draftpersons’ French curves and meticulous silk screening technique. The newest paintings’ color and designs have evolved in both their power and complexity…
Read MoreExpressionist Revival at La Jolla’s soundON Festival
Saturday’s (Jan. 11) soundON Festival concert at the La Jolla Athenaeum featured three new, edgy chamber music compositions juxtaposed with Arnold Schoenberg’s now classic Expressionist gem “Pierrot Lunaire.”
Read MoreNew York Polyphony Brings the “Missa Charles Darwin” to La Jolla
Friday’s La Jolla Athenaeum concert with the vocal ensemble New York Polyphony featured Gregory Brown’s radically conceived but sonically ingratiating “Missa Charles Darwin.” This impressive male quartet also offered Thomas Tallis’ “Mass for Four Voices” in an evening of tasteful virtuoso singing!
Read MoreThe WoW Festival is Here – and Here’s Your Guide to It
The long-anticipated La Jolla Playhouse WoW Festival has arrived, and it looks like fun indeed. Bill Eadie will be providing impressions of the festival by attending each day.
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