Posts Tagged ‘Sarah Skuster’
Charles 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 . . .
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 MoreSDSU Symphony’s New Music of the Night
The San Diego State University Symphony premiered composer Joseph Martin Waters’ “Suite Noir” Sunday (March 22) with soloists from the virtuoso avant-garde performance ensemble Swarmius at SDSU’s Montezuma Hall . . .
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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