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Finding cohesive The Wasps not easy

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“That was the best Beethoven Four I’ve heard since well—yeah.”

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Stranger Things takes author down rabbit hole – to Paisiello

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Ravel vies with Khachaturian and Rachmaninoff

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Finding cohesive The Wasps not easy

The 2022 San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival concluded with concerts on Friday, June 17, and Saturday, June 18. They were, as always, excellent. An unlooked-for treat came in the form ...

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“That was the best Beethoven Four I’ve heard since well—yeah.”

Now we come to the easiest and most difficult articles I write each year, the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra articles. These are easy because the orchestra is nigh unto flawless. ...

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Stranger Things takes author down rabbit hole – to Paisiello

I’ve been watching the fourth and final season of Stranger Things with my kids. This Netflix Original show had a fantastic first season, a solid second season, and a terrible ...

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Ravel vies with Khachaturian and Rachmaninoff

As spring ends and summer begins, it is quite possible that love is in the air. If you’ve ever visited The San Diego Zoo at this time of year then ...

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Ravel replaces Prokofiev in May fog

I went to the San Diego Symphony concert at the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park on Sunday, May 22. The concert was at 5:00 pm and was locked in the throes of a greyer May ...

May 27, 2022

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Want downer music? Nietzsche is your man

The name Frederich Nietzsche often elicits a strong response from adherents and detractors. The author of The Antichrist who claimed that “God is dead," has startled the faith of the ultra-religious for decades. Whether or ...

May 20, 2022

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May 13, 2022

San Diego Symphony promises massive summer

The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park is gearing up for what appears to be a massive summer of concerts and events. In addition to the popular fare, which is standard for the summer, there are ...

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May 6, 2022

Music to stir up your morning and wake the neighbors

Few things in life give me more pleasure than having a cup of classical music coffee on a sunny San Diego morning. If I actually drank coffee it would probably be even better. Even so, ...

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April 29, 2022

Mainly Mozart returns to Surf Sports Park in June

It’s the time of year when San Diego’s classical music collective consciousness bends its attention to The Mainly Mozart Festival. This year’s iteration takes place June 10-18 at the Surf Sports Park, formerly known as ...

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April 22, 2022

Pre-Covid San Diego Symphony gets recorded

On May 6, 2022, the first commercial recording of Rafael Payare conducting the San Diego Symphony will be released on the Platoon label. The subject of the recording is Dimitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11: The ...

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April 15, 2022

Stumbled on livestream of Brahms's Requiem

I opened Facebook on Sunday evening, April 10. As I began scrolling as saw a post announcing Brahms’s Requiem at Mission Valley United Methodist with members of the San Diego Symphony at 7:00 pm. I ...

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April 8, 2022

Can the San Diego Opera make a comeback?

Given the final performances of Charles Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette are in the books, the San Diego Opera mainstage season is at an end. The season consisted of Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte and the aforementioned ...

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Romeo et Juliet – grand opera at its grandest

Charles Gounod’s Romeo et Juliet opened at the San Diego Opera on Saturday, March 26, at the Civic Theatre in lavish production proving that opera is still a reality in San Diego. This production had ...

April 1, 2022

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Spielberg's West Side Story makes so many errors

West Side Story as directed by Steven Spielberg is currently streaming on HBOMax and Disney+. I have long thought about having my kids, ages 18 and 14, watch the original so I thought this was ...

March 25, 2022

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March 18, 2022

Garrett Harris plays opera to golfing buddy in Balboa Park

I was golfing with a friend at San Diego’s classic Balboa Park Golf Course when he suddenly started playing opera on the Bluetooth speaker he had mounted in one of the cup holders. Previously, the ...

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March 11, 2022

Valery Gergiev's career is over outside Russia

Way back in October of 2018, Valery Gergiev stopped by San Diego with the Mariinsky Orchestra and performed Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7: Leningrad. The symphony was written between 1941 and 1942 during the German siege ...

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Finding cohesive The Wasps not easy

“That was the best Beethoven Four I’ve heard since well—yeah.”

Stranger Things takes author down rabbit hole – to Paisiello

Ravel vies with Khachaturian and Rachmaninoff

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