Posts Tagged ‘Conlon Nancarrow’
A Generous Portion of the Music of Thomas Adès on Sunday’s SummerFest Menu
Sunday evening’s La Jolla SummerFest concert at the JAI continued the festival’s plunge into the music of Thomas Adès, this year’s Composer-in-residence.
Read MoreThe FLUX Quartet: SummerFest’s Powerful Champions of the Avant Garde
As a salute to the UC San Diego Department of Music, La Jolla SummerFest’s host for most of the 2018 music festival’s concerts, Music Director Cho-Liang Lin featured two of the university’s resident composers in his festival’s annual program of contemporary music: Rand Steiger’s new work “Tropes” and Lei Liang’s 2005 “Serashi Fragments.”
Read MoreJeremy Denk: From Bach to Ragtime, the Master!
By the time pianist Jeremy Denk reached the midway point on the first half of his recital at La Jolla Presbyterian Church Friday (May 12), he had the audience eating out of the palm of his hand. By the time he was finished, they were standing on their feet applauding and shouting!
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