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Next door to the Old Globe Theatre, where ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ is being explained these days, another troupe of mixed ages is examining the holiday season in only a slightly more weighty way with ‘Clint Black’s Looking for Christmas.’
This year, with many other musical organizations across the continent, the San Diego Symphony has observed the centennial of Leonard Bernstein’s birth. But choral director Ruben Valenzuela has chosen 2018 to bring attention to the music of another composer, the Anglo-Canadian Healey Willan, who died 50 years ago, with his Willan West 2018 festival, which ended Saturday, November 17, 2018, with a liturgical celebration at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Hillcrest.
Most people like to travel as a way to take a vacation, relax and escape their worries for a time. However, there are some men and women who go to distant lands in order to challenge themselves in ways that are risky and extremely dangerous.
Continuing the San Diego Symphony’s laudable Leonard Bernstein year-long centennial salute, guest conductor Steven Sloane and the orchestra offered a rousing account of Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety,” Friday, November 16, at the Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall.
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