Posts Tagged ‘Manuel De Falla’
SummerFest 2024 Explores Flamenco Flair in Contemporary Chamber Music
Thursday’s La Jolla SummerFest concert at The Conrad celebrated the three faces of Thomas Adès, this year’s composer-in-residence: composer, pianist, and conductor.
Read MoreLang Lang Returns to the San Diego Symphony for a Pair of Saint-Saëns Offerings
At the Rady Shell on Friday, pianist Lang Lang returned to the San Diego Symphony under guest conductor Otto Tausk to play Camille Saint-Saëns’ Second Piano Concerto in G Minor as well as his ‘The Carnival of the Animals’.
Read MoreNoche Latina: Passionate Music from Mezzo-soprano Soprano Isabel Leonard and Gutarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas
Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard and guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas fused passion and musical prowess on Thursday, December 1, 2022, in their duo recital at The Conrad.
Read MoreSummerFest 2021 Opening Concert: A Shimmering Stylistic Sampler
SummerFest 2021, the La Jolla Music Society’s prestigious annual summer music festival, opened Friday, July 30, with a marathon program that boasted music from 10 composers, required 15 onstage musicians, and lasted two and one-half hours.
Read MoreMainly Mozart Orchestra Finale: Alfred Schnittke Crashes the First Viennese School
The Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra’s final 2017 concert, Saturday, June 24, included a certain amount of humor: Haydn’s notorious “Farewell” Symphony and Alfred Schnittke’s quirky “Moz-Art” à la Haydn” . . .
Read MoreYo-Yo Ma Packs Copley Symphony Hall
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is not simply a virtuoso cellist—he is a celebrity equally at home performing concertos with major orchestras as he is appearing on television or recording sound tracks for blockbuster films. His Wednesday (March 12) recital with pianist Kathryn Stott drew an overflow crowd and offered an eclectic array of classical and popular music . . .
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