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True summer music – no cheating

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Classical music as meditation aide

The ideology of woke culture is one thing. Meditating every day and thereby developing the ability to effectively respond to life’s situations instead of merely reacting, is another. Meditation is ...

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True summer music – no cheating

As we are in mid-July, summer should be in full swing. With that in mind, let’s take a look at five pieces of music that inhabit the tone of summer. ...

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Good news/bad news for San Diego Opera 2021

The San Diego Opera has announced a season for 2021-2022. There’s some very good news here. Productions of Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette and Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte headline the season, ...

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The best version of Beethoven’s best symphony

The Mainly Mozart Festival concluded on Saturday, June 19 with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. There were also concerts on Wednesday, June 16, and Friday, ...

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Mainly Mozart gets pick of the best

The San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival got off to a rambunctious start on Friday, June 11, 2021, at the San Diego Surf Soccer Club in Del Mar. The orchestra roster is as strong as ever. ...

June 18, 2021

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You should know Bastianini, Bonisolli, Corelli.

An insurmountable mountain of facts proves that we are living in the best period of known human history. Maybe things were better in pre-history when the aliens were here, but from infant mortality rates to ...

June 11, 2021

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June 4, 2021

La Jolla Music Society Summerfest heads inside

The La Jolla Music Society (LJMS) has announced its SummerFest 2021, which will be held from Friday, July 30 - Friday, August 20, 2021, at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla. The ...

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May 28, 2021

Mainly Mozart is mainly back

The Mainly Mozart Festival is coming back into form on Friday, June 11. The incomparable Festival Orchestra is scheduled to perform five concerts at the Del Mar Surf Cup Sports Park June 11-19. The repertoire ...

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May 21, 2021

How long will the Rady Shell stay the Rady Shell?

The opening of the Rady Shell at the Jacobs Park featuring performances on the Una Davis Family Stage is imminent. As one might surmise from all the titles surrounding the Shell project, the San Diego ...

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May 13, 2021

Three female opera singers you should know and love

Each generation of young opera singers eventually becomes familiar with some of the great opera singers of the past. I’ve seen this happen, first hand, at least a dozen times. I must admit that I ...

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May 7, 2021

Early geniuses Mozart, Elgar, Mendelssohn show up in San Diego

The San Diego Symphony continued their run of string serenade live streams on Friday, April 29. In February the symphony string section performed Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings. In March is was Dvorak’s Serenade for Strings ...

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April 30, 2021

My five favorite sings

I want to talk a little bit about choir. I’ve been singing in choirs since the seventh grade. I was in a choir every year from junior high through college. During my first year in ...

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Best orchestras in the world without name recognition

There are famous orchestras around the world. We’ve all heard of Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics. We know about the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw. The United States used to have a “big five” ...

April 23, 2021

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Sheet music as tool of colonialism

The internet was astir regarding an article in The Telegraph. The headline reads, “Musical notation branded 'colonialist' by Oxford professors hoping to 'decolonise' the curriculum.” Musical pundits picked up on this as “the woke” trying ...

April 15, 2021

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April 9, 2021

Rafael Payare teaches me a thing or two

In its most recent online streaming concert, the San Diego Symphony showed off the string section in a concert entitled A Shimmer of Strings. This is the way I will now refer to all gatherings ...

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April 2, 2021

Best movie music: Shostakovich, Ralph Vaughn Williams

Since the 2021 Academy Awards come up later this month on April 25, let’s take a moment to consider some of the greatest movie music ever written. The acid test for great movie music is ...

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Classical music as meditation aide

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The best version of Beethoven’s best symphony

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