Posts Tagged ‘Steven Schick’
Rafael 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.
Read MoreUC San Diego: the Elysian Fields of Percussion Performance
Wednesday, February 27, at UC San Diego’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, virtuoso percussionist Steven Schick gave an impressive solo recital of recent works as part of the university’s week long “Cross-Wired,” a festival of concerts and masterclasses dedicated to cutting edge percussion music and its performers.
Read More2018: A Year of Winning Musical Collaborations Across the City
In 2018, the key players of San Diego’s classical music scene struck gold by collaborating with each other. Enlisting some 10 musical organizations in its month-long “It’s About Time Time” festival in January, the San Diego Symphony set a high bar of cooperation for the coming year, but other organizations readily took up the challenge with rewarding results.
Read MoreUC San Diego’s Amazing Revival of Luciano Berio’s ‘Circles’
At UC San Diego, Luciano Berio’s now classic avant-garde “Circles” from 1960 was magnificently performed on Thursday, November 29, 2018, in the university’s Experimental Theater at the Conrad Prebys Music Center.
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