Posts Tagged ‘Paul Huang’
Paul Huang Plays a Brilliant Bruch Violin Concerto with the San Diego Symphony
Friday’s arch-Romantic San Diego Symphony concert at the Jacobs Music Center featured music by Mendelssohn, Bruch and Tchaikovsky.
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 MoreBronfman Grotesquely Roars Through Mozart, Schubert and Schumann
After Friday’s uplifting, beautifully crafted opening night SummerFest concert, I was shocked to experience such a tasteless, aggressive musical assault attending SummerFest’s second concert on the following night, August 4, in UC San Diego’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.
Read MoreLa Jolla SummerFest Opens with a Sophisticated Musical Menagerie
This season of La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest brings down the curtain on Music Director Cho-Liang Lin’s superb 18-year tenure with the festival. Friday’s opening concert offered sublime chamber works by Bartók and Villa-Lobos, as well as wit and charm in Saint-Saëns’ “Carnival of the Animals.”
Read MoreThe Passionate Chamber Music of Liszt and Tchaikovsky
Virtuoso Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin was the featured performer in Wednesday’s (August 24) La Jolla SummerFest concert. No stranger to San Diego audiences, he gave winning accounts of piano concertos by Ravel and Gershwin with the San Diego Symphony earlier this year, and this marked his third successful visit to La Jolla’s Sherwood Auditorium . . .
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