Posts Tagged ‘Simone Porter’
Soaring Clarinet Flights and String Reveries at La Jolla SummerFest
Wednesday’s La Jolla SummerFest programming proved too eclectic to have a common theme, but the concert’s continuity came from the evening’s virtuoso performers.
Read MoreLa Jolla SummerFest’s California Dreamin’ Survey of 20th-Century Music in the Golden State
Pianist Conrad Tao’s ‘Rachmaninoff Songbook’ and a sampler of contrasting works by classical 20th-Century composers with California connections comprised Saturday’s La Jolla SummerFest program.
Read MoreLa Jolla SummerFest’s Sizzling Franck Piano Quintet
If Wednesday’s La Jolla SummerFest program titled ‘Notes on a Scandal’ failed to bolster the festival’s midweek attendance, the musicians amply rewarded the loyal patrons who showed up.
Read MoreSummerFest 2022 Explores the Bach Family and Their Wide Influences in Western Music
Beyond Bach, Sunday’s SummerFest 2022 program, offered a clever potpourri of works that inspired—or might have inspired—J. S. Bach, as well as a few works inspired by the Leipzig master himself.
Read MoreLa Jolla SummerFest 2022 Opens with a Grand Display of Virtuosity
The La Jolla Music Society’s 2022 SummerFest opened Friday with a well-performed but assemblage of unusual quartets. The festival continues through August 26, 2022, in The Conrad.
Read MoreDutoit and San Diego Symphony Triumph in Stravinsky’s ‘Petrushka’
The eminent conductor Charles Dutoit ascended the podium of the San Diego Symphony Friday (May 19) to lead a vivid concert of Stravinsky, Ravel, Mozart and Beethoven . . .
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