Posts Tagged ‘Richard Strauss’
So, Who Needs A Conductor, Anyway?
While the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra was giving its resplendent account of Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201, on Thursday (June 15) at the Balboa Theatre, I mused on how well this orchestra was flourishing under the leadership of Music Director Michael Francis . . .
Read MoreBartók’s Third Piano Concerto Returns to San Diego Symphony After 45-year Absence
This weekend, the dashing young German conductor-composer Matthias Pintscher and the Russian-born pianist Kirill Gerstein visitted the San Diego Symphony for Béla Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto. Pintscher led the orchestra in vivid performances of Anton Webern’s early tone poem “Im Sommerwind” . . .
Read MoreRomantic Latin Music Flourishes in Barrio Logan
Camarada, that sophisticated chamber music collective run by Beth Ross Buckley and Dana Burnett, presented a rich, emotionally charged concert Saturday (May 6) at Bread and Salt in Barrio Logan. Titled “Cantos de Amor,” this generous program mined the great mother lode of love-stricken songs and ballads written by Hispanic composers . . .
Read MoreLing and the San Diego Symphony: A Mahler III to Remember!
On Friday, May 5, Maestro Jahja Ling commenced his valedictory month as San Diego Symphony Music Director with a sweeping and at times sumptuous account of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 in D Minor . . .
Read MoreTenor Piotr Beczala’s Thrilling Recital Opens San Diego Opera’s New Season
Celebrated Polish tenor Piotr Beczala gave a recital at the Balboa Theatre Saturday to open the 2016-17 San Diego Opera season . . .
Read MoreA Strauss ‘Don Quixote’ to Remember and a Schubert ‘Unfinished’ to Forget
San Diego Symphony Music Director.Jahja Ling led an exciting, bravura “Don Quixote” by Richard Strauss at Friday’s (May 20) concert at the Jacobs Music Center . . .
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