The La Jolla Renaissance Singers (LJRS) will perform the amusing madrigal comedy hit of 1608, Adriano Banchieri’s “Festino Nella Sera del Giovedi Grasso Avanti Cena” (Entertainment for the Eve of Carnival Thursday) on two upcoming Sundays — May 13 and 20 — at different locales.
The La Jolla Renaissance Singers (LJRS) will perform the amusing madrigal comedy hit of 1608, Adriano Banchieri’s “Festino Nella Sera del Giovedi Grasso Avanti Cena” (Entertainment for the Eve of Carnival Thursday) on two upcoming Sundays — May 13 and 20 — at different locales.
La Jolla choral voices will sing out in celebration of spring this month — both locally and across the country in New York City.
La Jolla Playhouse announced its final production of the 2012 season will be, “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,” a world-premiere musical written and directed by Des McAnuff, Playhouse director emeritus (“Jesus Christ Superstar,” “Jersey Boys”), with music and lyrics by The Flaming Lips.
Local artists are taking their talents to the next level — and the next venue — in their quest to bring music to the masses.
“Angle of Repose,” inspired by themes in Wallace Stegner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will also be the name of the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C) 2012-13 season. The quintessential novel of the West asks us to look at where we come from and understand our relationship to the past.
Some 40 San Diego performing arts organizations learned last week that the top-tier La Jolla performance space they have been using for free may not be available to them any longer.
The Athenaeum’s jazz program returns to the Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr., for its annual spring series.
In 2002, David Bowie made a surprising Stylophone confession: “It’s the only instrument I take on holiday with me to compose on.”
Beginning at 7 p.m. on March 26, the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library at 1008 Wall St., will host a marathon that’s not just another race-to-the-finish. It’s a tour-de-force concert by two gifted musicians performing all 10 of Beethoven’s sonatas for violin and piano on the 185th anniversary of his death. And violinist Victoria Martino and pianist James Lent have been training like athletes for this very special event.
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