Posts Tagged ‘Bonnie Wright’
2018: A Year of Winning Musical Collaborations Across the City
In 2018, the key players of San Diego’s classical music scene struck gold by collaborating with each other. Enlisting some 10 musical organizations in its month-long “It’s About Time Time” festival in January, the San Diego Symphony set a high bar of cooperation for the coming year, but other organizations readily took up the challenge with rewarding results.
Read MoreKonk Pack: Impressive, but the Hills Are Not Alive with These Sounds of Music
Bonnie Wright’s ambitious Fresh Sound series makes its audience reconsider their ideas about what music is—or is not. Konk Pack, Saturday’s visiting trio on Wright’s adventurous series, filled the large room at Bread and Salt in Barrio Logan with clouds of vibrant electronically generated sound.
Read MoreMatt Welch and His Great Highland Bagpipe Conquer Bread & Salt
On Saturday at Bread & Salt, Matt Welch, accomplished performer on the Great Highland bagpipe, served a banquet of dances, marches, and variations from the instrument’s traditional repertory, several of his own takes on these genres, as well as works by contemporary minimalist composers Philip Glass and Anthony Braxton . . .
Read MoreBravura Percussion at Fresh Sound in Barrio Logan
For her latest Fresh Sound program, impresario Bonnie Wright brought back the two musicians who inaugurated Fresh Sound exactly 20 years ago—Steve Schick and Vanessa Tomlinson . . .
Read MorePianist Sarah Cahill’s Irresistible Contemporary Program
In Sarah Cahill’s solo recital for Fresh Sound on Friday (Nov. 4), the San Francisco virtuosa performed a range of alluring contemporary piano music from Terry Riley to Frederic Rzewski to Sam Adams . . .
Read MoreNew York Avant-Garde Duo Visits Bread & Salt
Saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and percussionist Tom Rainey brought their industrial jazz to Bread & Salt in Barrio Logan on September 30 to open Fresh Sound’s 2016 fall season . . .
Read More