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San Diego State University Musicians Offer Virtuoso Contemporary Fare at Bread and Salt in Barrio Logan

By Ken Herman | October 1, 2019 |

Music Director Michael Gerdes took the San Diego State University Chamber Orchestra and a cache of other SDSU musicians down to Bread and Salt in Barrio Logan Sunday afternoon to perform an engaging concert of contemporary music. With its high ceiling and unfinished, bare brick walls, the chaste performance space embraces all styles of music. And new music has found a particular sonic welcome in this building that was originally built to produce commercial baked goods in quantity. Arvo Pärt’s energetic yet strangely mystical “Fratres” opened this concert. When the composer first issued this work in 1977, it had no…

The Ardor Trio and Pianist Brian Verhoye Champion Fauré’s First Piano Quartet

By Ken Herman | September 29, 2019 |

With pianist Bryan Verhoye, the Ardor Trio offered a robust, stimulating chamber concert Saturday in the Meeting House of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego.

Making the Culture Leap From Middle East to Middle America

By Welton Jones | September 28, 2019 |

Choose between your religion, your country, your family and yourself, then make do in an alien nation. Welcome to ‘Noura’ at the Old Globe.

Old-Fashioned Musical Fun at Moonlight

By David Dixon | September 23, 2019 |

Over the last several years, Allison Spratt Pearce has played some of the more iconic musical theater roles that were made famous by Julie Andrews. This includes Maria in The Sound of Music (Andrews played the role onscreen), Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and recently, Guinevere in Cygnet Theatre’s concert reading of Camelot.

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