Posts Tagged ‘Philip Glass’
Payare and the San Diego Symphony Score with Familiar Tchaikovsky and Rare Glimpses of Lili Boulanger
Music Director Rafael Payare’s San Diego Symphony program Saturday at the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park paired Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony with Gustav Mahler’s “Songs of a Wayfarer” and two tone poems by Lili Boulanger.
Read MoreCamarada Brings Live Performance with Audience (!) Back to Bread and Salt
Titling Camarada’s 2020-2021 season as well as this Sunday concert Unstoppable, their program at Bread and Salt featured engaging but lesser known composers of the 20th and 21st Century—with the exception of a spirited closing number by the adored Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla.
Read MoreDaring Multi-Media Composer’s Opera ‘Aging Magician’ Opens on San Diego Opera’s dētour Series
Mozart composed his celebrated fantasy opera “The Magic Flute” in a few months, but composer Paola Prestini took five years to complete her recent chamber opera “Aging Magician,” which San Diego Opera is presenting at the Balboa Theatre on March 13 & 14, 2020.
Read MoreNCR’s Excellent ‘All in the Timing’ Fêtes the Genius of David Ives
If nothing else, the human condition is an incredibly generous entity, serving up endless degrees of humor at the drop of a hat. North Coast Repertory Theatre’s excellent ‘All in the Timing,’ in which David Ives chronicles this rather wry observation, is an ideal example.
Read MoreMatt Welch and His Great Highland Bagpipe Conquer Bread & Salt
On Saturday at Bread & Salt, Matt Welch, accomplished performer on the Great Highland bagpipe, served a banquet of dances, marches, and variations from the instrument’s traditional repertory, several of his own takes on these genres, as well as works by contemporary minimalist composers Philip Glass and Anthony Braxton . . .
Read MoreFresh Sounds in the Barrio: Minimalism but no salsa
The buildings that comprise Barrio Logan’s Bread and Salt were originally built as a bread factory, but Fresh Sound producer Bonnie Wright turned this venue into minimalist pâtisserie Thursday (Feb. 4) with Lisa Moore’s piano recital of Philip Glass and friends . . .
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