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The La Jolla Community Center’s recurring Fourth Friday Jazz Series hosted residents and staff from the Vi at La Jolla Village retirement community on Aug. 26.
Gray skies and a late start caused by equipment problems couldn’t dampen the spirits of the crowds who flocked to the season-opening show of the Kiwanis Club of La Jolla Concerts by the Sea summer series in Scripps Park on July 17.
The 30-show 2022-23 season will feature 16 area debuts in a roster that includes Lei Liang, Kristina Wong and David Sedaris.
The 12-member amateur group builds on a concept that founder Benjamin Thiele-Long began in the United Kingdom.
As it prepares for its annual 20-concert SummerFest, the La Jolla Music Society is ready to repeat its accompanying education program, featuring 70 free events intended to draw people of all ages and backgrounds to the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center.
The return of the annual summer concert series in La Jolla’s Scripps Park is proceeding full steam ahead.
Chelsea Chen has more than two decades of organ playing behind her, but the 2001 graduate of La Jolla High School credits several La Jollans with influencing her passion for the pipes.
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The La Jolla Music Society isn’t having a landmark anniversary with its 2022-23 season, but its 54th year still offers much to get excited about, says Leah Rosenthal, the nonprofit’s artistic director.
La Jolla resident and longtime piano player John Gutheil may be considered an amateur, but he came close to making his love of music a career.
Professional pianist Francois Chouchan is pleased to call La Jolla home.
“She is bold; she is someone who devoured life in a way that I wish I could emulate,” Carson Kreitzer says of Tamara de Lempicka, the late Polish-born painter who is the central figure in “Lempicka,” a musical that will take the stage at La Jolla Playhouse beginning Tuesday, June 14.
The La Jolla Music Society has announced the performances for SummerFest 2022, a series of concerts returning to the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla from July 29 to Aug. 26.
Local jazz aficionado Daniel Atkinson will present a two-day festival called Women in Jazz next week through his San Diego Jazz Ventures, an organization he launched a year ago to bring more jazz to the region.
What do Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney and Todd Rundgren have in common with acclaimed percussion master, orchestral conductor and UC San Diego music professor Steven Schick, a 2014 percussion Hall of Fame inductee?
A turn of musical phrase: La Jolla Symphony & Chorus maestro Steven Schick transitioning to new role
To mark the occasion, the symphony is creating a fund to establish a $10,000 annual prize in his name.
With an eye on community, Christie Mitchell will soon return to the one that influenced her career.
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La Jolla’s Athenaeum Music & Arts Library has announced that San Diego native and La Jolla High School graduate Christie Mitchell will succeed Erika Torri as its executive director upon Torri’s retirement in July.
Jeeyoon Kim is many things, but above all she is a musician.
