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Mahler, Shostakovich, Beethoven, and Mozart in San Diego this June

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Alma Deutscher takes a stand in Vienna

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California Composer John Adams and Rachmaninoff at San Diego Symphony

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Yo-Yo Ma in San Diego this April

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Mahler, Shostakovich, Beethoven, and Mozart in San Diego this June

The San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival used to be held at The Balboa Theatre and it used to be a great classical music event. Then it was held outdoors at ...

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Alma Deutscher takes a stand in Vienna

Like many classical music fans, I was introduced to Alma Deutscher several years ago via a 60 Minutes report. I was struck by her musicianship and her devotion to creating ...

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California Composer John Adams and Rachmaninoff at San Diego Symphony

I heard a rumor about the San Diego Civic Theater receiving an overhaul at some point in the future. Having just seen an opera production and a symphony concert at ...

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Yo-Yo Ma in San Diego this April

A classical spring is coming to San Diego. The end of March and the entire month of April are bursting with classical music concerts. There’s also opera. Tosca by Giacomo ...

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Peter Pan gets the operatic treatment

The latest victim of updating is Disney’s Peter Pan which is based on the play by Scottish author J. M. Barrie. The new version takes its title from the 1911 novel by the same author ...

March 3, 2023

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Mahler, Bruckner, and Haydn trumped by Price, Farrenc, and Grant Still

While scrolling through my Google feed, I saw an article entitled “15 Greatest Symphonies of all Time”. Of course, I clicked on it and was taken to Great Britain’s Classic FM website. Mozart’s Symphony No. ...

February 24, 2023

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February 17, 2023

Puccini at San Diego Opera

What was once known as Il Trittico, by Giacomo Puccini, is now being billed as The Puccini Duo by San Diego Opera. That’s probably for the best because the three one-act operas make for a ...

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February 10, 2023

San Diego Symphony Announces 2023-2024 season with Yo-Yo Ma and Michael Tilson Thomas

The San Diego Symphony has announced their 2023-2024 Jacobs Masterworks Series. This season promises to be a turning point in the organization's evolution under CEO Martha Gilmer. The most obvious element is the grand opening ...

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February 3, 2023

San Diego Symphony brings Sibelius to Escondido

It was nice to be back in the concert hall on Thursday, February 2. It had been since before Christmas that I had darkened the door of a theater. The concert was of the San ...

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January 27, 2023

African Composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

There once was a tremendously popular piece of music about a Native American which was written by a composer of African descent whose forbearers had been slaves in the New World prior to the American ...

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January 20, 2023

Stokowski, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Vivaldi

I came across some vinyl records with the label “Phase 4 Stereo” on them. I promptly contacted my friend who is into vinyl and gave them over to him. He must have thought me a ...

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January 13, 2023

Hans Pfitzner, Amy Beach, and cleaning the blinds

I had some solitary cleaning projects on my plate this last week and decided to use the time to cover some ground with a composer I’m not too familiar with. I considered a few options ...

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Sibelius, Puccini, and Beethoven in San Diego

With the holidays all wrapped up, we look toward what could be considered the meat of the classical music season. January is generally quiet but things get rowdy in February. On February 2 and 3, ...

January 6, 2023

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Puccini and Wagner defeat ABBA and Yacht Rock

As 2022 comes to an end, Spotify informed me that I was in the top 0.5 percent of ABBA listeners for the year. I wasn’t surprised. ABBA is musical gold and I was all about ...

December 30, 2022

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December 23, 2022

Christmas music by Handel, Tchaikovsky, and Vaughan Williams

We’ve looked at a variety of classical Christmas music over the past few weeks. We considered somber music for a solstice of solitude and little-known Christmas operas such as Hans Pfitzner’s Christelfein. Now we come ...

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December 16, 2022

Christmas Operas by Heggie, Adams, and Pftizner

Who’s in the mood for a Christmas opera? It’s a strange question because there aren’t any Christmas operas, are there? Yes, yes there is. There are several Christmas operas. Ok. There are a handful of ...

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Mahler, Shostakovich, Beethoven, and Mozart in San Diego this June

Alma Deutscher takes a stand in Vienna

California Composer John Adams and Rachmaninoff at San Diego Symphony

Yo-Yo Ma in San Diego this April

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