Turkey trots multiplying
Three turkey trots to consider for Thursday.
There are more turkey trot events than you can shake a stick at this Thursday. An early morning 5 or 10K on Thanksgiving soothes the conscious and clears a path to the stuffing, candied yams, and pumpkin pie. Here are …
Ear love: San Diego Symphony
Don Juan makes love to us in our ear holes.
Don Juan is a legendary lover and on Saturday evening, Cristof Perick and the San Diego Symphony made love to our ears with an all German concert. The concert began with Richard Strauss and his tone poem Don Juan. This …
Waiting to inhale: Mahler Ninth
Salonen and the Philharmonia steal your children with Mahler's Ninth.
The Philharmonia delivered the goods on Thursday night at Symphony Hall. What were the goods they delivered? A colossal struggle between Western subjectivity and Eastern detachment; the Confessions of Augustin and the Tibeten Book of the Dead in musical guise. …
Dead but a saint
San Diego Opera provides historic presentation of Henry II vs. Thomas Becket
I wandered into the Cuvier Center of St. James by the Sea in La Jolla to attend a talk about San Diego Opera's upcoming production of Murder in the Cathedral. The event was well attended and almost every seat was …
Guest conductor
Cristof Perick returns for a walk in the park.
This weekend, German conductor Christof Perick will be conducting the San Diego Symphony in Richard Strass’ Don Juan and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6: The Pastoral. Maestro Perick is not a stranger to the San Diego musicians. In 2011 he led …
Philharmonia
One of the most august orchestras in the world is coming to San Diego to perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 9. The orchestra is the Philharmonia and they will be performing at Symphony Hall on Thursday the 15th at 8:00 pm. …
Two causes on Sunday
There are two different "5K's for a cause" events on Sunday the 11th. The 4th Annual 5K Walk-Run for Hope is at Mariner's Point on the west side of Mission Bay. Registration is at 8:30 am. This event benefits families …
Nice half opportunity
The Silver Strand Half Marathon and 5K is on Sunday the 11th of November and registration is still open. In fact, there will be registration going on Saturday the 10th at Road Runner Sports in Kearney Mesa. The course for …
Start eating more.
As I sat and spoke with fitness experts Erik Mara and Shirley Moran, I began to realize that this diet thing was easy. They kept coming back to eating six times per day. Shirley clarified the approach, "I have three …
Mahler 5: San Diego Symphony (2 of 2)
During intermission, some opportunistic youngsters came on down and seated themselves in what they thought were unused seats in the front row of the Grand Tier. This quartet of future patrons had miscounted and were occupying the seats of Joan …
Redeemed by the encore: San Diego Symphony (1 of 2)
Haydn’s Cello Concerto opened for Mahler's Symphony No. 5 this weekend at Symphony Hall. It was not the San Diego Symphony's best performance. Cello soloist, Ralph Krishbaum, did not have his "a" game at the Saturday evening performance. Either Haydn …
Hot, cold, and thick: SDSO
The San Diego Symphony started their concert with Too Hot Toccata. It was not long but it was hot. After the heat, things cooled off in a hurry. Even though we are in the midst of a Santa Ana, the …
A brief talk with an orchestral musician
I thought it might be nice to get a perspective from an orchestra member regarding this weekend’s San Diego Symphony concert. Igor Pandurski is a first violinist. A slight and charming accent to his English confirms that he did his …
Out-of-town sabotage: Orchestra Nova
The musicians of Orchestra Nova had a conductor ready to step in for the first concerts of the 2012-2013 season. They were willing to go on with the sold out concerts which were an exploration of the music from the …
Irvine grant: Your Song, Your Story
The San Diego Symphony Orchestra has announced that they are the beneficiary of a $580,000 grant from the James Irvine Foundation. The grant will go to fund a program in 2013 called Your Song, Your Story. What is Your Song, …
Avengers: Erik Mara and Shirley Moran
I met Erik Mara and Shirley Moran at the gym. I had wandered in on a Sunday evening after a sunset run at Torrey Pines Reserve. My plan was to do a few back exercises, use the foam roller, hit …
Pak resigns: Orchestra Nova
In a press release this morning, Orchestra Nova has announced that conductor Jung Ho Pak has resigned. Pak’s resignation comes just a few days before the orchestra’s opening concert of the season. Orchestra Nova violaist Linda Piatt still hopes the …
Image versus substance
I want to explore a topic that is surging to the forefront of classical music. We had a solid representation of this topic in the first two SDSO concerts. The first concert weekend was sold out while the second concert …
Thousand-handed god of the piano: Garrick Ohlsson
What happened? In just one week, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra went from sold out to about half full. To add insult to injury, this concert was better than last weekend's. This concert had more variety, this concert had enlightenment, …
San Diego Mets 2013
One of the best events of the year is this Saturday at 10:00 am on the campus of Point Loma Nazarene University. The event is the San Diego Chapter of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, also known as the …