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Percussion Lovefest Thrills Barrio Logan Audience

By Ken Herman | January 12, 2018 |

The San Diego Symphony’s “It’s About Time Festival” opened Thursday (January 11) with a rousing, sophisticated  all-percussion concert at Barrio Logan’s trendy Bread and Salt venue. To be certain, offering a  concert of percussion ensembles that will fill a house takes audacity and astute programming skills. Fortunately, Festival Curator Steven Schick possesses these traits in abundance, and I can think of no musician with more extensive connections throughout the San Diego music community. Although Thursday’s concert was only the first of three weekly all-percussion events, in Schick’s opening salvo his choices touched on the immense range of percussion practice from…

‘Hamilton’ Is About More Than Just One Revolution; Make Room for Miranda

By Welton Jones | January 11, 2018 |

The American Revolution addressed from the perspective of a classic underdog in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s epic ‘Hamilton’ is also a revolution in theatrical application of the vernacular to the mythic.

Despite Cast Changes ‘Hamilton’ is in Good Hands

By Bill Eadie | January 10, 2018 |

It really is all that…

Piano Virtuoso Igor Levit Plays Bach and Liszt for the La Jolla Music Society

By Ken Herman | January 9, 2018 |

Igor Levit’s piano recital for the La Jolla Music Society–alternately thrilling, serious, and a bit dour– at the Auditorium at TSRI began with a J. S. Bach transcription and culminated with Ferruccio Busoni’s monumental transcription of Franz Liszt’s grand organ solo, Fantasia and Fugue on “Ad Nos, ad Salutarum Undam.”

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