Posts Tagged ‘Sarah Skuster’
The San Diego Symphony Returns to the Renovated Jacobs Music Center with an Exciting 2023-24 Jacobs Masterworks Season
Music Director Rafael Payare will celebrate the return of the San Diego Symphony to its newly renovated home at the Jacobs Music Center this November with a 2023-24 season of astonishingly bold and inviting programing
Read MoreSan Diego Symphony Offer’s Carlos Simon’s Searing “Elegy” from 2015 with Familiar Mozart and Tchaikovsky Fare
To open Friday’s online symphony concert “Elegies and Serenades,” San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare chose Carlos Simon’s striking 2015 “Elegy: A Cry from the Grave.”
Read MoreChristopher Dragon Leads Stirring All-Tchaikovsky Concert to Cap Summer Series on San Diego Bay
On Friday, August 30, Australian guest conductor Christopher Dragon adeptly refurbished the San Diego Symphony’s familiar but fading end-of-summer ritual at their outdoor site on San Diego Bay, the all-Tchaikovsky grand finale.
Read MoreDavid Danzmayr Serves Stirring Sibelius and Benjamin Jaber Celebrates John Williams’ Horn Concerto
Even if you were not a fan of the music of Jean Sibelius, it would have been difficult to resist the San Diego Symphony’s majestic and impassioned accounts of two of his greatest works, “Finlandia” and the First Symphony, Saturday at the Jacobs Music Center, under the baton of guest conductor David Danzmayr.
Read MoreAugustin Hadelich Illuminates Dvořák’s Violin Concerto with the San Diego Symphony
Between the spring 2016 revelation that San Diego Symphony Music Director Jahja Ling would retire at the end of the 2016-17 season and the announcement in February 2018 that the young Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare had been selected as Music Director Designate, San Diego musical circles were rife with speculation. Among the names most frequently…
Read MoreGuest Conductor Michael Francis Brings His Panache to the San Diego Symphony
With numerous 20th-century and newer works played in the San Diego Symphony’s current “Hearing the Future” festival, I felt a sense of backsliding attending Michael Francis’s program of familiar standard repertory from the early 19th century Friday, January 18, at the San Diego Symphony.
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