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Posts Tagged ‘Tessa Lark’

Inon Barnatan’s Boundary-Crossing Vision for SummerFest 2023

By Ken Herman | April 6, 2023 | 0

Music Director Inon Barnatan has filled La Jolla’s month-long SummerFest 2023 with numerous delectable surprises, including the noted British composer Thomas Adès as composer-in-residence and programming Barnatan’s own arrangement of Freddie Mercury’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’

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SummerFest 2022 Explores the Bach Family and Their Wide Influences in Western Music

By Ken Herman | August 1, 2022 | 0

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.

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La Jolla SummerFest 2022 Opens with a Grand Display of Virtuosity

By Ken Herman | July 30, 2022 | 0

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.

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String Quartets Rule at Thursday’s SummerFest 2021 Concert

By Ken Herman | August 6, 2021 | 0

Thursday’s SummerFest 2021 program (August 5) offered two autobiographical string quartets, Bedřich Smetana’s E Minor Quartet “From My Life” and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110.

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SummerFest 2020 Signs Off with Exuberant Schubert ‘Trout’ Piano Quintet

By Ken Herman | August 30, 2020 | 2

SummerFest 2020 signed off Saturday, August 29, with a bit of J. S. Bach and Serge Prokofiev, but centered on an exuberant slalom through Schubert’s “Trout” Piano Quintet, D. 667.

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Weilerstein Gives Stunning Account of Kodály Sonata for Solo Cello at SummerFest 2020

By Ken Herman | August 29, 2020 | 1

In Friday’s online concert of SummerFest 2020, Alisa Weilerstein combined discovery and amazing virtuoso execution in Kodály’s Sonata for Solo Cello. The program also included a Mozart Violin Sonata and the Suk Piano Quartet.

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