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Garrett Harris
Articles by Garrett Harris
San Diego Symphony: rambunctious list for next season
Lotsa Beethoven, but why not Dvorak 7 or 9?
The San Diego Symphony has announced its 2019-2020 season and it is a rambunctious list of symphonic music. For the past few seasons, I’ve felt as though the San Diego Symphony has been getting away ...
Robert Spanos personality, Vaughn Williams' glory show up at San Diego Symphony
Beethoven not great before 3rd Piano Concerto, 3rd Symphony
We are having a proper winter in San Diego and on Saturday, March 9, we had a proper symphony performed by the San Diego Symphony at the Jacobs Music Center. Before we received the proper ...
James Agee and Joélle Harvey made me like Samuel Barber
San Diego Symphony's A Village Romeo and Julietand Knoxville Summer of 1915
Soprano Joélle Harvey was my favorite part of the San Diego Symphony concert on Friday, March 1, at Symphony Hall. Over the years I’ve been critical and disappointed with the vocal experience at the symphony ...
Listen to The Witch
A person who is dangerous and aggressive but chooses to temper her aggression is a moral person
I’d never seen Into The Woods live, so I took a chance and went up to Torrey Pines to see Steven Sondheim’s fractured fairytale. The production was impressive but more importantly, the emotional content of ...
10 Best lists for classical music
The Marriage of Figaro, Carmen, Otello, Trout Quintet – everyone would agree
In speaking with a friend the other day, the topic of “10 pieces of classical music everyone should hear before they die” came up. We came up with three pieces before the parameters of the ...
Diana: Fairy tale to soap opera to tragedy
She was plucked out of obscurity and forced to choose a role she didn’t necessarily want
Diana, a new musical at the La Jolla Playhouse, is running through Sunday, April 7. Given La Jolla Playhouse’s production of Summer: The Donna Summer Musical we might expect Diana to be The Diana Ross ...
San Diego Reader 2019 Arts issue
Dance, classical music, galleries, street art, movies, theater
Birds sing, elephants dance, and monkeys paint, but only humans turn those activities into art. And only humans evince a bottomless hunger for it: hence the endless parade of pictures on Instagram, stories on Netflix, ...
A stream of consciousness akin to the art of Faulkner
Once we speak the truth and align with reality, things begin to get better.
It is a play based on a book based on an online advice column which was called “Dear Sugar”. I had previously read some of the Dear Sugar material, and found it to be spotty ...
The peerless Augustin Hadelich and the bourgie Brahms
I reveled in the easy listening of the Hungarian Dances
I was pleasantly surprised by the San Diego Symphony concert on Friday, February 15. Why so? Because it was one of those concerts with four pieces of music none of which could be considered the ...
