PhotosHair gone gray
Half a century ago, the very staging of Hair read like a political act
Micha Barnes 2:30 p.m., June 20
Garrett Harris
Articles by Garrett Harris
Mainly Mozart marathon
The performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 pushed the limits
The Mainly Mozart Festival has completed it’s Genius Weekend which ran from June 7-June 10 at multiple locations throughout San Diego County and Tijuana. It was perhaps the most rigorous weekend of music and presentations ...
What happens behind closed doors?
I'll take portamenti for the win.
The Mainly Mozart Festival sprinted out of the gate with four concerts on June 1, 2, and 3. Three of the opening concerts were Spotlight Chamber Music events in Rancho Santa Fe Garden, La Jolla, ...
San Diego Symphony finale
Brahms, de Waart, and the symphony rode off into a brilliant sunset
The San Diego Symphony’s 2017-18 Jacobs Masterworks Series came to a satisfying conclusion with concerts on May 25, 26, and 27. The concerts were conducted by maestro Edo de Waart who, you might recall, was ...
Regret is useless, and yet...
I make a big deal out of the Mainly Mozart festival because it actually is a big deal
Every year I make a big deal of the upcoming Mainly Mozart Festival, and I do this because it actually is a big deal. I had been writing about classical music for about five years ...
You can't toss off the Adagio for Strings
Even if you consider Jesus to be a fiction, there is no denying that the stakes are quite exalted.
The San Diego Symphony gave a concert on May 11, 12, and 13 with music director emeritus Jahja Ling conducting the music of Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, and Ludwig van Beethoven. The programming was puzzling. ...
One Amazing Night at the San Diego Opera
This concert meant something
San Diego Opera closed their 2017/18 season on May 5 with a concert billed as One Amazing Night. They weren’t lying. The concert starred Greer Grimsley and Lise Lindstrom accompanied by the San Diego Symphony ...
Onslow, lost in the onslaught
World War I shattered the promises of the Enlightenment
Beethoven and Schubert admired him. Mendelssohn and Schumann thought his string quartets were as good as those by Mozart and Beethoven. Schubert fashioned his cello sonatas after this composer’s cello sonatas. He was George Onslow ...
I'll hit you with a stick and you rejoice
Maestro Ling returns carrying a big stick.
Maestro Jahja Ling returned to the podium of the San Diego Symphony on April 20, 21, and 22 with a concert which was about as cinematic as they come. The program was packaged around Ling ...
An amiable concert at San Diego Symphony
The Mozart was pretty much what all Mozart has been
The San Diego Symphony concert on Saturday, April 14, was good. Jeffrey Kahane was both piano soloist and conductor in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27. Kahane went on to conduct Samuel Barber’s Music for a ...
