MUSIC REVIEWS
Haydn and Adès Sail with Hausmann Quartet at the Maritime Museum
Continuing its admirable Haydn Voyages series at the Maritime Museum of San Diego, the Hausmann Quartet offered a cannily varied program Sunday, May 28.
Read MorePro Arte Voices Brings Music to the Table of Gun Violence in America
To mark Memorial Day, the choral ensemble San Diego Pro Arte Voices presented a concert Monday (May 29) at St. Andrew’s by the Sea Episcopal Church in Pacific Beach: Disarm Hate—a musical response to gun violence.
Read MoreMastro Jahja Ling’s San Diego Symphony Swan Song
The end of an era: Maestro Jahja Ling conducted the final concert of his 13-year stint as the San Diego Symphony’s Music Director on Sunday (May 28) at the Jacobs Music Center . . .
Read MoreChucho Valdés Holds Court at Copley
Pianist Chucho Valdés in solo concert reminds us all of why he is a true, Cuban legend.
Read MoreDutoit and San Diego Symphony Triumph in Stravinsky’s ‘Petrushka’
The eminent conductor Charles Dutoit ascended the podium of the San Diego Symphony Friday (May 19) to lead a vivid concert of Stravinsky, Ravel, Mozart and Beethoven . . .
Read MoreBartók’s Third Piano Concerto Returns to San Diego Symphony After 45-year Absence
This weekend, the dashing young German conductor-composer Matthias Pintscher and the Russian-born pianist Kirill Gerstein visitted the San Diego Symphony for Béla Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto. Pintscher led the orchestra in vivid performances of Anton Webern’s early tone poem “Im Sommerwind” . . .
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