Posts Tagged ‘Michael Sokol’
Bodhi Tree Concerts Salutes the Struggle for Women’s Suffrage in a Festive Online Musical Banquet
Bodhi Tree Concerts chose the final day of the National Democratic Convention, August 20, to offer “Songs of Suffrage,” a charming online concert of songs that celebrate this 100-year anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment.
Read MoreA Generous Offering of Compositions by Nicolas Reveles
If you should ask me what sort of musician Nicolas Reveles is, you would be wise to sit down, because the answer is neither short nor simple. I have encountered him as a church organist and as a respected university music faculty member. His persuasive solo piano recitals have always left me wanting to hear…
Read MoreEscondido Premiere of Sturk Oratorio ‘One Small Step’ Celebrates 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing
To mark the 50th anniversary of NASA’s moon landing, at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, a consortium of north county performing ensembles will present the world premiere of Stephen Sturk’s oratorio “One Small Step” on July 20, 2019, at 7:00 p.m.
Read MoreHearing Schubert’s Wintry Song Cycle in San Diego Spring
Sunday’s chilly, May gray afternoon provided appropriate weather in which to consider Franz Schubert’s and poet Wilhelm Müller’s wintry song cycle “Die Winterreise,” with its morbid musings over a lonely midwinter trek. Baritone Michael Sokol and pianist Nicolas Reveles did the honors in the downtown San Diego Public Library’s Neil Morgan Auditorium,
Read MoreMusic Brings Peace to War: Bodhi Tree Concerts’ ‘All Is Calm’
Bodhi Tree Concerts and the men of Sacra/Profana produced “All Is Calm: the Christmas Truce of 1914” November 17-19, 2017, in San Diego’s Veterans Museum at Balboa Park. The 2:00 p.m. performance on November, 18, 2017, was viewed for this review.
Read MoreGilbert and Sullivan and ‘Pirates’ Finally Catch Up with San Diego Opera
“The Pirates of Penzance,” San Diego Opera’s first ever Gilbert and Sullivan opera, arrived at Civic Theatre Saturday (October 14)—a kinetic, splashy, gift-wrapped production that left no humorous stone unturned . . .
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