Posts Tagged ‘San Diego Master Chorale’
Feast of Russian Music Crowns San Diego Symphony’s Summer Season at Embarcadero Marina Park South
The ritual of culminating the San Diego Symphony’s Summer Pops season with canons and fireworks punctuating Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” is too much fun for everyone involved to give it up, and Associate Conductor Sameer Patel followed tradition on Friday, August 31, at Embarcadero Marina Park South.
Read MoreSan Diego Symphony and Brian Stokes Mitchell Know How to Make the Season Bright
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 . . .
Read MoreDe Waart’s Triumphant Take on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
Guest conductor Edo de Waart led a triumphant account of Beethoven’s Ninth (“Choral”) Symphony with the San Diego Symphony and San Diego Master Choral this weekend (Dec. 9-11) . . .
Read MorePeter Oundjian Brings Vibrant New John Adams Work to the Jacobs Music Center
Canadian conductor Peter Oundjian brought a well-matched program of John Adams and Gustav Holst to the San Diego Symphony Saturday (December 3) at the Jacobs Music Center. Because he chose Adams’ recent “Doctor Atomic Symphony” and his Holst selection was “The Planets,” Oundjian cleverly titled his program “Adams, Atoms and Planets” . . .
Read MoreSymphony’s Festive ‘Te Deum’ to Relieve Holiday Tedium
On Friday the San Diego Symphony and San Diego Master Chorale presented the Berlioz ‘Te Deum,’ a rarely heard monumental work for chorus, orchestra, organ and tenor soloist . . .
Read More‘Defiant Requiem’ a Moving Holocaust Remembrance at the Jacobs Music Center
Guest conductor Murry Sidlin presented “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín,” a concert of Guiseppe Verdi’s great Requiem surrounded by commentary about performances of this work given by Jews imprisoned by the Nazis in the notorious Theresienstadt Concentration Camp during World War II . . .
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