Posts Tagged ‘Steven Schick’
San Diego Symphony’s “To the Earth” Festival Concludes with the Drama and Solace of Evening
The San Diego Symphony’s “To the Earth” online festival concluded Friday with music for Evening, the fitting climax to the previous program themes of Morning and Noon.
Read MoreMusic of Gabriela Ortiz and Tan Dun Enrich Second Program of the Symphony’s “To the Earth” Festival
To continue their “To the Earth” online festival, San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare and Festival Curator Steven Schick offered their second installment on Wednesday, music to celebrate the midday: Noon.
Read MoreRafael Payare and Steven Schick Present an Online Kaleidoscope of Morning Music from the Rady Shell
San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare and UC San Diego composer-conductor Steven Schick have assembled three online concerts under the highly programmatic title “To The Earth,” which opened Friday with the first installment, “Morning: Birds and Light.”
Read MoreRafael Payare Announces Exciting 2020-21 Season for the San Diego Symphony
If the current absence of live symphonic music at the Jacobs Music Center can be assuaged, I suggest contemplation of San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payere’s recently released 2020-21 season of the Jacobs Masterworks Series is just what the doctor ordered.
Read MoreUC San Diego Celebrates the Music and Influence of Chou Wen-Chung
Under the direction of Steven Schick, UC San Diego’s bravura contemporary ensemble “red fish blue fish” offered in their Wednesday, February 19, concert a fitting homage to the influential late Chinese composer Chou Wen-Chung
Read MoreSteven Schick Leads Stirring, Probing Account of Bernstein’s “Kaddish” Symphony with La Jolla Symphony
After a rugged and stirring performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3, “Kaddish,” by the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus Saturday, March 16, I left UC San Diego’s Mandeville Auditorium refreshed and uplifted. Bernstein’s “Kaddish” Symphony, based on the ancient Hebrew prayer for the dead, takes the listener on a probing and at times exalting journey.
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