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The Danish String Quartet Excels with Its Three B’s: Bach, Beethoven, and Bartók

By Ken Herman | November 23, 2019 |

The Danish String Quartet invited Friday’s audience at The Conrad to join them on the third musical journey of their “Prism Project” at the La Jolla Music Society. Starting with the serene counterpoint of J.S. Bach, the quartet seamlessly moved to Beethoven’s bold thematic freedom and culminated with Bartók’s heady release from the predictable straitjacket of tonality.

Getting Down to Business with Backyard Renaissance Theatre’s Pitch-Perfect ‘American Buffalo’

By Ken Herman | November 20, 2019 |

San Diego’s Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company opened its production of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” Saturday, November 16, at the Tenth Avenue Arts Center, a modest venue located in a not yet gentrified part of the city’s East Village that is the precisely the type of neighborhood in which Mamet’s play takes place.

Camarada Brings Concert of French Impressionist Composers to Balboa Park’s Museum of Photographic Arts

By Ken Herman | November 17, 2019 |

Camarada, the San Diego collective of professional musicians now celebrating its 25th season, presented a chamber concert of Impressionist works Sunday at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park.

The Danish String Quartet Opens Its Musically Probing Prism Project at The Conrad

By Ken Herman | November 17, 2019 |

The Danish String Quartet returned to La Jolla Saturday, November 16, bringing a joyful, sonically resplendent Beethoven String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127, and the smoldering intensity of Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat Minor, Opus 144.

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