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Recent Reviews
- Mozart — The Abduction from the Seraglio
- Russian Nefertiti: Zlata Chochieva in Recital
- Halida Dinova performs on the “Aptos Keyboard Series @ St. Johns”
- Celebration Choir — August 12, 2018
- Cabrillo Festival: Notes from a Journey
- Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music 2018 — “In the Blue Room with the Kronos Quartet”
- Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music 2018 — ‘After Dixieland’
- Vienna Transfigured
- Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music 2018 — Opening Night
- Carmel Bach Festival 2018 — I Hear America Singing
- [email protected] — Ich bin Berliner
- Carmel Bach Festival 2018 – Virginia Best Adams Vocal Master Class
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Recent Previews
- Mozart — The Abduction from the Seraglio
- Pianist John Jensen performs a recital of American music at Hidden Valley
- Yekwon Sunwoo — Van Cliburn Gold Medalist to perform for the Carmel Music Society
- Distinguished Artists Concert & Lecture Series presents pianist Garrick Ohlsson
- David Gordon — “Singing My Heart Out”
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List by Category
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Vienna Transfigured
The “City of my Dreams,” Vienna, provided the spectacular venue for the last of the [email protected] concert series, 2018, Saturday, August 4 at the Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton. Music by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, and Schoenberg found vibrant, uplifting realization by ensembles thoroughly engaged in style and temperament, concluding the program not so much by frantic applause, but by that thoughtful, mesmerized quiet that followed the long-held, evaporating chords from Schoenberg’s 1899 sextet after the poem by Richard Dehmel. Read full story
Archived in these categories: 20th Century, Classical Era, Romantic Era
[email protected] — Ich bin Berliner
The city of Berlin provided the cultural venue for the indubitably successful concert from [email protected], Saturday, July 28, at the Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton. Music by Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, and Mendelssohn elicited a series of dazzling ensembles in seamless harmony, since each of the representative composers had found in Berlin receptive sponsors who fostered their artistic growth or challenged their native ingenuity. Read full story
Archived in these categories: Baroque, Chamber music, Classical Era
Camerata Singers – To Pauline – With Love
The Camerata Singers, under the direction of John Koza, presented To Pauline,…with Love on May 12 at First Presbyterian Church, Monterey. This bittersweet occasion to bid farewell to Pauline Troia – exemplary pianist, accompanist for 30+ years – was a terrific program of choral jewels. With the likes of Aaron Copland, Daniel Brimsmead, Randall Thompson, John Rutter, Moses Hogan along with arrangements by Josephine Poelnitz and Craig Hella Johnson all represented, some of the finest and most enduring works of choral repertoire were presented. Troia chose many of these selections as some of her favorites through the years. However, this was definitely a “working” tribute to Troia as she was most expertly busy at the piano. She continues to make the keyboard music look and sound effortless. Read full story
Archived in these categories: 20th Century, Choral, Classical Era, Piano, Vocal, Vocal ensemble
Time Stolen, Time Repaid: A Recital by pianist Yeol Eum Son
It seems beyond appropriate that pianist Yeol Eum Son played but one encore after her dazzling recital at the Petit Trianon Theatre for the Steinway Society, Sunday, May 6: the Etincelles of Moritz Moszkowski, Op. 36, No. 6, his musical evocation of “Sparks” or “Sparklers.” The little gem in B-flat Major, 3/8, asked Son to exploit her facility in staccato scale passages, a requirement her deft fingers executed with that same aplomb and wicked confidence that had marked her performances in music by Mozart, Pärt, Ravel, Schubert, and Rachmaninoff. The audience, ravenous for more of Son’s magic, had to accept to the one encore, so often the vehicle for Vladimir Horowitz to say farewell at his marathon concerts. Read full story
Archived in these categories: 20th Century, Classical Era, Piano
Carmel Music Society Presents Pianist Jeremy Denk
Our music community was treated to an evening of Mozart, Prokofiev, Beethoven and Schubert by internationally renowned pianist Jeremy Denk. Mr. Denk is an artist of rare depth and sensitivity, and his breathtaking performance closed off another great season for the Carmel Music Society. In his remarks during the performance, Mr. Denk suggested that time and its role in accentuating the compositional structure and interpretation is a theme of artistic interest, and drew, through his exquisite interpretation, lines through all the works leading to Schubert’s masterpiece, his Sonata in B-flat Major, D.960. Read full story
Archived in these categories: 20th Century, Carmel Music Society, Classical Era, Piano, Romantic Era
