MUSIC REVIEWS
Art of Élan: Music and Art in Total Immersion at the Museum of Contemporary Art
While San Diegans were celebrating Mardi Gras in the streets of the Gaslamp District, Art of Élan staged its own fete in another quarter of downtown at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Surrounded by Jennifer Steenkamp’s massive video installation “Madame Curie,” Art of Élan Co-Artistic Director Kate Hatmaker and company played a chamber music concert as mesmerizing as Steenkamp’s undulating flowers . . .
Read MoreSACRA/PROFANA’s Vivid, Moving Choral Cantata by Anthony Davis Soars on Point Loma
The San Diego choral ensemble SACRA/PROFANA gave an impressive performance of Anthony Davis’s profound and jarring cantata “Voyage Through Death to Life Upon These Shores” in a concert at All Souls’ Episcopal Church in Point Loma that also featured the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Choir San Diego . . .
Read MoreBravura Percussion at Fresh Sound in Barrio Logan
For her latest Fresh Sound program, impresario Bonnie Wright brought back the two musicians who inaugurated Fresh Sound exactly 20 years ago—Steve Schick and Vanessa Tomlinson . . .
Read MoreDavid Danzmayr Leads Disappointing Beethoven Seventh Symphony
The young Austrian conductor David Danzmayr brought a fairly conventional program to the San Diego Symphony Thursday (Feb. 23), opening with Waltz King Johann Strauss, Jr.’s signature “On the Beautiful Blue Danube” and closing with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony . . .
Read MoreSan Diego Opera’s ‘Falstaff’–Worth Its Weight in Vocal Splendor
San Diego Opera’s robust, rambunctious production of Verdi’s comic opera ‘Falstaff’ pumped up the physical comedy of an opera whose libretto already abounds in outsize humor . . .
Read MoreSan Diego Symphony Shines Under Baton of Dazzling Young Lahav Shani
There are occasions at Copley Symphony Hall when everything goes right, and this weekend’s concerts with Israeli guest conductor Lahav Shani qualified with ease. The combination of a beautifully designed program with
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