Posts Tagged ‘Tessa Lark’
SummerFest Pairs the Polar Joys of Adès and Schubert in Saturday’s Concert at the Conrad
Saturday’s SummerFest concert kept the spotlight on Composer-in-residence Thomas Adès, featuring the U. S. premiere of his clarinet quintet Alchymia, and presenting him performing at the piano in Franz Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet.
Read MoreSpiritual Traditions Inspire the Offerings of SummerFest’s Friday Concert
Each of the three works on Friday’s intriguing SummerFest 2023 program reflects a distinct spiritual tradition
Read MoreInon Barnatan’s Boundary-Crossing Vision for SummerFest 2023
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.’
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 MoreString Quartets Rule at Thursday’s SummerFest 2021 Concert
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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