Posts Tagged ‘Michael Francis’
Mainly Mozart Festival Brings Mahler to The Conrad
Tuesday at La Jolla’s Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, San Diego’s annual Mainly Mozart summer festival presented Mahler’s Fourth Symphony in a chamber ensemble version.
Read MoreSan Diego Symphony Returns to the San Diego Civic Theatre with A Varied Program of Still, Berlioz and Rachmaninoff
The San Diego Symphony returned to its former home, the San Diego Civic Theatre, on Friday for the first orchestra concert of 2022.
Read MoreMainly Mozart in an Open Field East of the I-5
The 2021 Mainly Mozart Mainly Festival with it impressive roster of players performed at the Surf Cup Sports Park off Via De La Valle in Del Mar.
Read MoreMainly Mozart Orchestra Delivers Haydn and Mozart to Cherish
Mainly Mozart Festival Music Director Michael Francis offered two Mozart Piano Concertos and Haydn’s Symphony No. 49 on Thursday’s Balboa Theatre program. Not surprisingly, virtuoso pianist Anne-Marie McDermott proved the perfect choice of soloist to play the two Mozart concertos back to back .
Read MoreMichael Francis and Mainly Mozart Orchestra Illuminate Superb Mendelssohn Fifth Symphony
To headline Saturday’s opening concert of Mainly Mozart’s 2019 Festival Orchestra series, Music Director Michael Francis sagely featured pianist Jeremy Denk in a thrilling account of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in C Major, K. 467.
Read MoreGuest Conductor Michael Francis Brings His Panache to the San Diego Symphony
With numerous 20th-century and newer works played in the San Diego Symphony’s current “Hearing the Future” festival, I felt a sense of backsliding attending Michael Francis’s program of familiar standard repertory from the early 19th century Friday, January 18, at the San Diego Symphony.
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