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The Carlsbad Music Festival: A Tsunami of Contemporary Floods Downtown Carlsbad

By Ken Herman | August 27, 2017 |

The spunky Carlsbad Music Festival opened Friday, August 25, 2017, inspiring risk-taking when selecting concerts from its amazingly diverse schedule. Six performances are mentioned in this report about Founder and Music Director Matt McBane’s annual festival of contemporary music in beautiful downtown Carlsbad . . .

Ion’s ‘The North Plan’ a Bromide for the ‘Alt-Left’

By Bill Eadie | August 27, 2017 |

Jason Wells’ play, The North Plan debuted in 2012, but, in Ion Theatre’s production it seems to have been written just last week…

Silly and Holy—Dance Artist Jesse Zaritt at youTurn

By Janice Steinberg | August 25, 2017 |

Tiny youTurn Arts, which puts on just one show a year, can hardly fill the gap left when Sushi went bust in 2011. Still, youTurn producers Erica Buechner and Anne Gehman have made terrifically savvy curatorial choices—like this year’s guest artist, Jesse Zaritt, whose solo, “send off,” felt wickedly ironic … and also holy.

Cellist Alisa Weilerstein Soars with Bach and Brahms at La Jolla SummerFest

By Ken Herman | August 24, 2017 |

In the final La Jolla SummerFest chamber music concert, cellist Alisa Weilerstein exuded charisma and intensity in addition to her superb technique and sympathetic musicianship . . .

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