Posts Tagged ‘Ruben Valenzuela’
Bach Collegium San Diego Brings Its Stylish Period Interpretation of the Brandenburg Concertos to East County
The eminent Bach Collegium San Diego opened its 17th season Friday, October 11, at Cuyamaca College in Rancho San Diego with an all-Bach program that lived up to the ensemble’s estimable period music performance standards.
Read MoreBach Collegium San Diego’s Stirring J.S. Bach ‘Christmas Oratorio’
Ruben Valenzuela’s Bach Collegium San Diego gave an electric performance of J. S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio Friday (December 14) in the capacious sanctuary of the First United Methodist Church of San Diego. Sung in German by a strong 19 member chorus, accompanied by a fleet 25-piece period instrument ensemble, and guided by Artistic Director Valenzuela’s acute sense of Baroque period performance practice, this concert brought the audience amazingly close to Bach’s musical world.
Read MoreWillan West Festival Closes on A High Note at All Saints’ Episcopal Church
This year, with many other musical organizations across the continent, the San Diego Symphony has observed the centennial of Leonard Bernstein’s birth. But choral director Ruben Valenzuela has chosen 2018 to bring attention to the music of another composer, the Anglo-Canadian Healey Willan, who died 50 years ago, with his Willan West 2018 festival, which ended Saturday, November 17, 2018, with a liturgical celebration at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Hillcrest.
Read MoreArt of Élan’s Glowing Mosaic of Music from Monteverdi to David Bruce
On Tuesday, November 6, Art of Élan offered an amazing concert in the atrium of the San Diego Museum of Art that spanned the madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi to a stunning instrumental quartet 2016 by David Bruce.
Read MoreWillan West 2018 Festival Opens in Hillcrest
San Diego maestro Ruben Valenzuela, known for leading rigorous period performances of Bach and Handel, has launched a several month festival to perform the sacred compositions of the early 20th-century Anglo-Canadian composer Healey Willan with equal concern for period practice and context . . .
Read MoreBach Collegium San Diego’s Milestone ‘Messiah’
Under the direction of Ruben Valenzuela, San Diego’s Bach Collegium performed a complete version of G. F. Handel’s oratorio “Messiah” at the First Presbyterian Church of San Diego on Tuesday, December 19, 2017 . . .
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