San Diego Children’s Choir

San Diego Symphony and Brian Stokes Mitchell Know How to Make the Season Bright

By Ken Herman | December 17, 2016 |

The San Diego Symphony under Associate Conductor Sameer Patel and Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell gave a rousing and even inspiring Christmas season concert at Copley Symphony Hall . . .

Ken-David Masur’s Shostakovich and Master Chorale’s Orff Something to Shout About

By Ken Herman | May 4, 2015 |

The young American Conrad Tao gave a spectacular performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto with the San Diego Symphony Saturday (May 2) on a concert that included an equally spectacular “Carmina burana” by Carl Orff . . .