Posts Tagged ‘Ryan Simmons’
Payare Opens Summer Season at The Rady Shell with Mussorgsky and a New Piano Concerto by Reinaldo Moya
San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare opened the Symphony’s summer season Friday, June 24, 2022, at The Rady Shell.
Read MoreCamarada Brings the Music of Stefan Cwik to Its Mingei Museum Concert
‘Mosaics’–Camarada’s chamber concert Sunday at the Mingei Museum–featured both the music and presence of San Francisco-based composer Stefan Cwik.
Read MoreArt of Élan: Fine Performance Without Applause–an Idea Whose Time Has Come
Questioning the protocol of concert attendance is rarely undertaken, but Kate Hatmaker, Artistic and Executive Director of Art of Élan, made a brave suggestion before the group’s concert Tuesday, May 7, at the San Diego Museum of Art. She asked the audience not to applaud after each of the seven works on the evening’s program. The result proved astounding.
Read MoreCamarada Goes Scandinavian at the Mingei Museum
San Diego’s chamber collective Camarada continued its series at the Mingei International Museum Sunday (Jan. 24) with a concert of music by Scandinavian composers . . .
Read MoreVivaldi Upstaged by C.P.E. Bach in the Barrio
When the month of December rolls around, I am eager for almost any program that is NOT “Messiah,” “Nutcracker” or Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” So when the San Diego chamber music collective Camarada announced they were playing an all-Vivaldi program without a single movement from “The Four Seasons” I was eager to hear it . . .
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