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Mozart! Music! Murder? La Jolla husband-wife team bring Mozart mystery to Timken Museum

Dori Salois and Robert Salerno.

On May 25, for one night only, there will be a special performance at the Timken Museum in Balboa Park — a staged reading of “Cadenza: Mozart’s Last Year,” in honor of the 25th anniversary of Mainly Mozart, the distinguished organization that has been offering fine music to San Diegans since 1988.
“Cadenza” will be presented by Vantage Theatre, a small non-profit company known for collaborative, site-specific projects. Its mainstays are longtime La Jollans —executive director Dori Salois and her husband, playwright/director Robert Salerno.

Lecture series on bluegrass music set for La Jolla’s Athenaeum

The Virtual Strangers of bluegrass music bring a mixture of traditional and progressive songs to their repertoire.

Band members Mike and Yvonne Tatar, Kit Birkett and Jon Cherry (San Diego’s Virtual Strangers) will present a three- part, lecture-concert series on bluegrass music at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, May 21, May 28 and June 4 at 1008 Wall St.

Young mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital will join San Diego Symphony in La Jolla for world premiere piece

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Coming to the Auditorium at TSRI on May 21 is an unusual concert by Grammy-nominated mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital and members of the San Diego Symphony. The concert, part of the Symphony’s chamber music series, will feature the world premiere of a piece for mandolin and strings by David Bruce, the Symphony’s Associate Composer for 2013-14.

World Music festival at Scripps Park in La Jolla on Saturday, May 11

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The Center for World Music will hold its 50th anniversary festival “a dazzling outdoor multicultural performing arts experience,” 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 11 in Ellen Browning Scripps Park 1133 Coast Blvd.The free event will feature master artists performing music and dance from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe, including folk and traditional cultures of Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Iran, Spain, and many more.

La Jolla Music Society presents young Russian pianist in concert Sunday at Auditorium at TSRI

Nikolay Khozyainov. Courtesy

La Jolla Music Society concludes its season’s Discovery Series with a performance by pianist Nikolay Khozyainov at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 12 at the Auditorium at TSRI, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive. His program will feature works by Haydn, Ravel, Liszt and Chopin

World Music Festival comes to La Jolla on May 11

Ade Suparman, who teaches gamelan at the Center for World Music’s annual workshop in Bali, will take the festival stage at 3 p.m.

The Center for World Music will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a festival in Ellen Browning Scripps Park.

Old Worlds to meet New World in symphonic concert

Steven Schick conducts the Symphony orchestra. Bill Dean

The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C) will perform three works that present vivid musical images of Asia, Europe and America, in a program themed “Old Worlds/ New World,” May 4-5, at Mandeville Auditorium on the UC San Diego campus.

Gala to benefit fund for student musicians

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The annual scholarship fundraiser, Encore! for the San Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory (SDYS) will begin at 5 p.m. Saturday, May 4, in the Casa del Prado in Balboa Park. Tickets are $250 for the Platinum Level, $200 for the Gold Level.

La Jolla’s Best Bets for Events: April 26-May 5: Music, dance, photo/art exhibits, La Jolla Half Marathon, Cinco de Mayo party, historical walking tours and more

Photo by Aaron Goulding

La Jolla’s Best Bets for Events from April 26-May 5, 2013 include music and dance performances, photography and art exhibits, La Jolla Half Marathon, Cinco de Mayo party, La Jolla Symphonny concerts and historical walking tours of La Jolla Village.

Hawaiian music to fill La Jolla Sherwood Auditorium

Ron kuala’au and Barry Flanagan are HAPA. Courtesy

The band HAPA will perform traditional Hawaiian music at 8 p.m. Friday, April 19 in Sherwood Auditorium, Museum at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 700 Prospect St. in La Jolla. HAPA’S new CD “Tuahine,” will be given to those who contact Dave Ish dish@san.rr.com by 10 a.m. April 19 and purchase concert tickets, $35, at tulaproductions.org

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