Posts Tagged ‘Mozart’
Two Virtual NWEAMO 2020 Concerts Cover the Waterfront of New Music Performance
Over the weekend, May 16 – 17, 2020, SanDiego’s 2020 NWEAMO Festival launched two virtual concerts on YouTube. Curated by the festival directors, each concert offers a wide, eclectic panoply of contemporary composition and performance practice.
Read MoreOpera NEO’s 2020 Summer Opera Festival the Latest Coronavirus Fatality–But Virtual Performances of ‘The Magic Flute’ Will Triumph Online
San Diego’s younger opera company, Opera NEO, announced today the cancellation of its annual Summer Opera Festival due to the current coronavirus pandemic.
Read MoreBell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Salute Beethoven and Paganini at the Jacobs Music Center
The La Jolla Music Society brought the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under the direction of Joshua Bell to San Diego two years ago, and they returned to the Jacobs Music Center in downtown San Diego Monday, March 2.
Read MoreOpera NEO Offers Mozart, Gounod, and Rameau in Promising 2020 Summer Opera Festival
Following a pattern that has won devoted audiences, the Opera NEO Summer Opera Festival has announced its August 2020 season: two repertory favorites, Charles Gounod’s “Faust” and Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” complemented by a Baroque rarity, Jean Philippe Rameau’s “Platée.”
Read MoreHausmann Quartet Spices Its Recent Haydn Voyage with Caroline Shaw and Terry Riley
The adventurous Hausmann Quartet opened its fifth season of Haydn Voyages on the Maritime Museum of San Diego’s Berkeley on Sunday afternoon, February , 2020).
Read MoreBritish Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor Makes Splendid Debut in Mozart Concerto with the San Diego Symphony
Friday’s San Diego Symphony concert devoted to the music of Mozart and Mendelssohn featured guest soloist Benjamin Grosvenor in a brilliant account of Mozart’s E-flat Major Piano Concerto, K. 271, and Mendelssohn’s Fifth Symphony (“Reformation”) under the baton of Jun Märkl.
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