Posts Tagged ‘Sarah Skuster’
San Diego Symphony Shines Under Baton of Dazzling Young Lahav Shani
There are occasions at Copley Symphony Hall when everything goes right, and this weekend’s concerts with Israeli guest conductor Lahav Shani qualified with ease. The combination of a beautifully designed program with
Read MoreViolinist Benjamin Beilman Makes Stunning Debut with San Diego Symphony
After the San Diego Symphony’s month-long festival of American Music with guest conductors offering a smorgasbord of enticing and exceptional music, Music Director Jahja Ling returned to the podium Friday (February 3) with his predictable trove of standard repertory . . .
Read MoreArt of Élan Celebrates of Art of Ljova at the San Diego Museum of Art
On Tuesday (January 31) , Art of Élan premiered Ljova’s Clarinet Quintet in their concert at the San Diego Museum of Art, a program that included works by the contemporary Missy Mazzoli and British 20th-century composer Arnold Bax . . .
Read MoreCharles Ives Visits the Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall
As a coda to its month-long festival of American music, the San Diego Symphony offered an engaging Charles Ives tribute on January 28 that included a performance of his Second Symphony and a multimedia dramatic presentation about Ives created by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . . .
Read MoreGaffigan Leads San Diego Symphony’s Exhilarating Americana Excursion
The young American conductor James Gaffigan led the San Diego Symphony in a delicious, eclectic program Friday (January 27), featuring Samuel Barber’s turbulent neo-Romantic First Symphony, Steven Stuckey’s radiant 2008 “Rhapsodies,” and Morton Gould’s euphoric “Tap Dance Concerto” . . .
Read MoreA Strauss ‘Don Quixote’ to Remember and a Schubert ‘Unfinished’ to Forget
San Diego Symphony Music Director.Jahja Ling led an exciting, bravura “Don Quixote” by Richard Strauss at Friday’s (May 20) concert at the Jacobs Music Center . . .
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