PhotosParadise Point/Tidal’s potentially therapeutic cocktail, the Black & White
A study in ultimate contrasts
Joseph O'Brien 3 p.m., June 28
Garrett Harris
Articles by Garrett Harris
Prokoviev-ing
Platonic forms and divine muses make an appearance at Mainly Mozart
We now have a peak experience to add to the list for Mainly Mozart, but it came from Prokofiev and Beethoven. The Mainly Mozart Festival is taking a chronological journey through Mozart’s life over the ...
If you can use The Force, then use it
Mainly Mozart's second concert
Two concerts into the Mainly Mozart Festival and all is well. The second concert on Thursday, June 15, was a mixed bag for moi. This was the third time I’ve been to a Mainly Mozart ...
Strauss raised wife jokes to the level of art
How would the "I'm with her" crowd react to Strauss's Intermezzo?
What is an intermezzo? There are several famous musical intermezzi such as those found in Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci but there is also an entire opera entitled Intermezzo by Richard Strauss. What gives? In the ...
The Tao of Mozart
Conrad Tao brings the ancient nature of the cosmos to the Mainly Mozart Festival
Taoism, with its principles of effortless action, naturalness, humility, simplicity, spontaneity, compassion, and frugality, was a perfect fit for the evening. Which evening? The opening evening of The 2017 Mainly Mozart Festival on Saturday, June ...
The Old Man and the Old Moon, distracted by its own cleverness
A mash-up of Paul Bunyan, Jonah and the Whale, The Odyssey, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” So spoke William Butler Yeats. I’m going to repurpose this poem to discuss PigPen Theatre ...
An excuse to talk about Wonder Woman
The mainstream picks up the redemptive feminine conversation
Perhaps I’m overstating my case but I feel as though the recent success of the Wonder Woman movie has been prophesied here in this humble column. For not a few years I’ve been adding my ...
Scategories with Wolfgang
Scatology has a long and honorable tradition
Scatology is currently a most distasteful subject but that was not always the case. There are examples of scatalogical humor dating back to Aristophanes’s The Birds in the ancient Greek theatre. This type of humor ...
Emotional finale for Maestro Ling
Sibelius was great at makeup sex
Saturday, May 27 was the second of three final concerts at the San Diego Symphony. These concerts conclude the Jacobs Masterworks Series and Maestro Jahja Ling’s tenure as music director of the orchestra. The concert ...
The Mainly Mozart is coming
I take my annual ride from borough to borough
Round about this time of year I begin to feel like a musical Paul Revere. Instead of riding from town to town shouting, “The redcoats are coming! The redcoats are coming!” I begin posting from ...
