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De Waart and San Diego Symphony Offer Winning Program of Mahler and Barber

By Ken Herman | March 2, 2019 |

Conductor Edo de Waart’s Friday (March 1) program with the San Diego Symphony brilliantly paired Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with Samuel Barber’s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915,” and together they delivered this package beautifully!

UC San Diego: the Elysian Fields of Percussion Performance

By Ken Herman | February 28, 2019 |

Wednesday, February 27, at UC San Diego’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, virtuoso percussionist Steven Schick gave an impressive solo recital of recent works as part of the university’s week long “Cross-Wired,” a festival of concerts and masterclasses dedicated to cutting edge percussion music and its performers.

Disney Meets Islam Fantasy and the Winner is that Magic Carpet

By Welton Jones | February 26, 2019 |

Aladdin gets the Princess and that Genie gets everything else is the Disney version of a tale more nor less from the ‘Thousand and One Nights.’ A good time is had by all except the bad guys.

Remarkable Ensemble Spirit Is King in NCR’s Cadenced, Very Good ‘Gabriel’

By Martin Jones Westlin | February 26, 2019 |

World War II was just that, a global catastrophe that threatened the future of human affairs — but it also tested family loyalties on an infinitely smaller scale. Amid its soaring language and cadence, North Coast Repertory Theatre’s ‘Gabriel’ is an intriguing case in point.