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Posts Tagged ‘Rafael Payare’

Penderecki’s ‘Adagio for Strings’ Made Friday’s San Diego Symphony Online Concert Exceptional

By Ken Herman | March 27, 2021 | 0

In Friday’s streamed concert from the Jacobs Music Center, San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare and the orchestra performed Penderecki’s 2013 “Adagio for Strings” as well as works by Mozart and Dvořák.

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San Diego Symphony Offer’s Carlos Simon’s Searing “Elegy” from 2015 with Familiar Mozart and Tchaikovsky Fare

By Ken Herman | February 27, 2021 | 0

To open Friday’s online symphony concert “Elegies and Serenades,” San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare chose Carlos Simon’s striking 2015 “Elegy: A Cry from the Grave.”

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San Diego Opera’s “La bohème” Recast As a Symbol of Isolation in a Time of Pandemic

By Ken Herman | October 9, 2020 | 0

Although opera houses across the continent have been dark since mid-March because of the Covid pandemic, San Diego Opera General Director David Bennett is determined to produce the company’s 2020-2021 season-opening “La bohème” production later this month outdoors in the Pechanga Arena San Diego parking lot.

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Rafael Payare Announces Exciting 2020-21 Season for the San Diego Symphony

By Ken Herman | April 8, 2020 | 0

If the current absence of live symphonic music at the Jacobs Music Center can be assuaged, I suggest contemplation of San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payere’s recently released 2020-21 season of the Jacobs Masterworks Series is just what the doctor ordered.

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Stefan Jackiw Illuminates Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Rafael Payare Unleashes a Heady Shostakovich Symphony No. 11

By Ken Herman | February 23, 2020 | 0

Having heard the amazing young American violinist Stefan Jackiw play in last season’s La Jolla SummerFest, I was excited to encounter him again Sunday as soloist with the San Diego Symphony under Music Director Rafael Payare in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. He did not disappoint!

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2019: A Pivotal Year in San Diego’s Classical Music Scene

By Ken Herman | December 28, 2019 | 0

Every season has its high points and low points, but 2019 became a remarkable year for classical music in San Diego.

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