Garrett Harris

Garrett Harris covers the classical music scene for the Reader's Jam Session music blog.

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Microbial life vs. multicellular life in opera

What's a theory of the role of Mother Earth without a musical reference?

When I wrote about Gaia versus Medea as models of motherhood I should have mentioned that this distinction was developed ...

Encinitas festival in Cardiff

There are a series of Encinitas events but they appear to be in Cardiff.

The Encinitas 5K starts at the Seaside Reef Parking lot in Cardiff. These two towns must be friends. As we ...

UCSD Mito Walk and Roll

Mitochondrial disease research and funding is the motivation for this first annual event.

The UCSD Mitochondrial Fund is holding its first annual Walk and Roll 5K on Saturday the 18th. Mitochondrial disease has ...

Happy Mother's Day

Gaia and Medea, they're both mothers.

Gaia has a beautiful yoga practice, she harms not the earth with all of her green tech, and she is ...

Mother's day sweat

Two opportunities for mothers to sweat before they wait in line for brunch on Mother's Day.

Sunday is Mother’s Day. It is a day I’ve always thought of as pastoral--a day full of flowers and brunches ...

Valyrian Steel leads San Diego Symphony

The San Diego Symphony turned in a performance so epic that Game of Thrones should be ashamed of itself for being too trite.

I’ve been trying to come up with a way to express the grandeur of the San Diego Symphony’s performance of ...

Question and answer at San Diego Symphony

Charles Ives has an answer for every question except the last one while the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto is technically brilliant.

On Saturday night, the fourth of May, 2013, the San Diego Symphony stood victorious upon Tchaikovsky’s mountain of pathos. The ...

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