Eileen Wingard, a retired violinist with the San Diego Symphony, is a freelance writer specializing in coverage of the arts.
The December 8 San Diego Symphony Orchestra’s high voltage program under the direction of SDSO Music Director, Raphael Payare, took off with the dazzling opening of Richard Strauss’ tone poem, Don Juan. [Eileen Wingard]
Strauss, Schastakovitch Masterfully Performed by Israeli-Born Pianist Inon Barnatan Read More »
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“Jews on Broadway,” the next Treasures from the Music Collection of the Astor Judaica Library program, will be presented at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec 12, at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center. [Eileen Wingard]
Dec. 12 LFJCC Program Features Broadway Show Tunes with Music and Lyrics by Jews Read More »
Eileen Wingard, Jewish Celebrities, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAAssistant Conductor of the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra (TICO), Robert Zelickman, opened the matinee All-Mozart Concert at the Garfield Theater of the Lawrence Family JCC Sunday, Nov. 24, conducting, the Overture to “The Impresario,” one of Mozart’s comic operas in which a director is auditioning two singers for a role and each is trying to outdo the other. The wave after wave of sequences in the rapid-fire overture reflected that competition. Zelickman sustained the orchestral energy of the overture throughout the five-minute work. [Eileen Wingard]
Amos, Zelickman, Schumann Team in All-Mozart Concert at the LFJCC Read More »
Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined ContributorsJuly Galper, a native of Peru and a champion of the poetry of the Peruvian-Jewish Poet, Inge Strusberg, opened the Jewish Poets of the Past program Tuesday evening, November 19, with a biographical sketch of Strusberg, written in the poet’s own words. [Eileen Wingard]
Shoah, Israel’s Wars Subjects of Poetry Readings at Lawrence Family JCC Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, International, Israel, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined ContributorsWith precise gestures and total command, guest conductor, Elena Schwarz led the San Diego Symphony Sunday, Nov. 17, in a concert that included contemporary music in the first half and a familiar, beloved symphony after intermission. [Eileen Wingard]
SDSO Guest Conductor Elena Schwartz Shows Command Over Different Musical Styles Read More »
Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined ContributorsA program, “Jewish Poets of the Past,” will feature works by the Peruvian-Jewish poet, Inge Strusberg, and the Israeli poet/song writer, Ehud Manor, in a program at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 19, in the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family JCC. It is presented by Jewish Poets–Jewish Voices under the auspices of the Center for Jewish Culture. [Eileen Wingard]
Poems, Songs of Inge Strusberg, Ehud Manor to be Featured Nov. 19 at JCC Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors“Jews in Opera” will feature the recorded voices of 15 outstanding Jewish opera singers at 2 p.m., Thursday, Nov.14, in the Astor Judaic Library of the Lawrence Family JCC. Many of the recordings are from the Music Collection of the Astor Judaica Library. I will be hosting the program, and my in-person guest will be the distinguished Ukrainian-born mezzo soprano, Susanna Poretsky. [Eileen Wingard]
Voices of Jewish Opera Stars to be Savored at the JCC on Nov. 14 Read More »
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Of the original four student members at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, only the cellist, 75-year-old András Fejér, remains. But the uncanny melding of their instrumental voices into a unified whole continues to characterize their playing … [Eileen Wingard]
50-Year-Old Takács String Quartet Performs Here with One Original Member Read More »
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Ax is a no-nonsense player, performing flawlessly, with elegance and grace. There were no histrionics, no dramatic gestures, there was just honest perfection. And the orchestra, with reduced strings, one timpani, one flute and pairs of oboes, bassoons, trumpets and horns, provided beautiful, nuanced support under Raphael Payare s direction. [Eileen Wingard]
Emanuel Ax Flawlessly Performs Mozart in San Diego Symphony Concert Read More »
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With a Jewish soloist, violinist Pinchas Zukerman, in the first half of the program and a tone poem by a Jewish composer, Arnold Schoenberg, in the second half, last Sunday’s San Diego Symphony concert seemed tailored for this Jewish holiday season. [Eileen Wingard]
Zukerman Performance and Schoenberg Composition Showcase Jewish Musical Talent Read More »
Eileen Wingard, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USAThe San Diego Symphony’s opening concert of its subscription series featured Mahler’s Symphony #2, “Resurrection,” an appropriate choice as the orchestra resumes residency in its beautifully refurbished hall, now renamed, the Jacobs Music Center. [Eileen Wingard]
Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony Inaugurates Refurbished Music Hall Read More »
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As curator and moderator of these programs, I am pleased to have as my guest the outstanding scholar of the Yiddish Theater, Ron Robboy, who will share in the introductions of the 14-selection playlist. [Eileen Wingard]
Great Songs of the Yiddish Theatre to be Highlighted Sept. 12 at the JCC Read More »
Eileen Wingard, International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & BroadcastEven more impressive than the newly achieved grandeur of the hall were the improved acoustics of the Jacobs Music Center. We were seated in the very last row of the downstairs, under the balcony overhang, over to the extreme right, and every sound, every nuance reached our ears with pure clarity, from the hushed solo violin strokes of Tchaikovsky’s “Canzonetta” to the bold final utterances of Orff’s “O fortuna,” for full chorus and orchestra. [Eileen Wingard]
Transformed Jacobs Music Center Features Highly Improved Acoustics Read More »
Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined ContributorsThe dynamic classical/jazz pianist, Conrad Tao, opened the August 17 SummerFest concert, California Dreamin’, with eight selections connected to Sergei Rachmaninoff, who spent his last years in Los Angeles after immigrating from his native Russia. [Eileen Wingard]
Works of Rachmaninoff, Rozsa Delight SummerFest Audience Read More »
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