MUSIC REVIEWS
Matt Welch and His Great Highland Bagpipe Conquer Bread & Salt
On Saturday at Bread & Salt, Matt Welch, accomplished performer on the Great Highland bagpipe, served a banquet of dances, marches, and variations from the instrument’s traditional repertory, several of his own takes on these genres, as well as works by contemporary minimalist composers Philip Glass and Anthony Braxton . . .
Read MoreThe Carlsbad Music Festival: A Tsunami of Contemporary Floods Downtown Carlsbad
The spunky Carlsbad Music Festival opened Friday, August 25, 2017, inspiring risk-taking when selecting concerts from its amazingly diverse schedule. Six performances are mentioned in this report about Founder and Music Director Matt McBane’s annual festival of contemporary music in beautiful downtown Carlsbad . . .
Read MoreCellist Alisa Weilerstein Soars with Bach and Brahms at La Jolla SummerFest
In the final La Jolla SummerFest chamber music concert, cellist Alisa Weilerstein exuded charisma and intensity in addition to her superb technique and sympathetic musicianship . . .
Read MoreAn Evening with the Regina Carter Quartet at La Jolla Music Summerfest 2017
Jazz Violinist Regina Carter and her quartet performed an excellent show at the UC San Diego’s Prebys Concert Hall on Saturday night . . .
Read MoreSummerFest’s Sunny Sunday Serenades
Festival programming that runs out of pleasant surprises is likely to overstay its welcome, so SummerFest Music Director Cho-Liang Lin came up with a pair highly unusual offerings by Britten and Elgar for Sunday’s (August 20) afternoon concert at the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall . . .
Read MoreParker and Lin Fire First Salvo in SummerFest’s Beethoven Violin Sonata Marathon
Violinist Cho-Liang Lin and pianist Jon Kimura Parker delivered Tuesday (August 15) the first of four Summerfest 2017 concerts dedicated to playing all 10 Beethoven Violin Sonatas . . .
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