PhotosSan Diego Symphony Orchestra music director Rafael Payare finished his slate of Fall concerts this last weekend. I attended the Friday, November 14th, concert at The Jacobs Music Center. It was announced that he has …
November 21, 2025
Articles by Garrett Harris
Mendelssohn, Sibelius, and Schubert at San Diego Symphony Orchestra
Mahler and Bruckner at San Diego Symphony
A dim, grey light filtered through the early morning mists as The Glacier Express chugged away from the station at St. Moritz. As the train climbed higher, the peak of the Matterhorn pushed its way …
November 10, 2025
I Pagliacci at San Diego Opera
Whenever I attend an opera, I enter the theater and find my seat full of trepidation. (To clarify: I am full of trepidation, not my seat.) It doesn’t matter where the opera is being produced. …
November 3, 2025
Mendelssohn and Korngold at San Diego Symphony Orchestra
The San Diego Symphony Orchestra has wrapped up the first month of the 2025-2026 Jacobs Masterworks Series. Irwin Jacobs himself was at the Saturday, October 18 concert at The Jacobs Music Center, and it happened …
October 20, 2025
A weekend at The Athenaeum and The Symphony
My weekend started on Friday, October 10, with a concert and lecture by pianist Daniel Beliavsky at The La Jolla Athenaeum. The concert included music by Dimitri Shostakovich, Frédéric Chopin, Alexander Scriabin, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. The …
October 13, 2025
Opening night for the San Diego Symphony Orchestra
The San Diego Symphony’s 2025-2026 Jacobs Masterworks Series started with a triumph on Friday, October 3 at The Jacobs Music Center. San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare conducted an all-French concert that set a …
October 6, 2025
Classical concerts coming in October
October is nigh, and that means many things. Halloween is the new start of the holiday season, so we can begin looking forward to the holidays. The weather will relax, though there will be no …
September 26, 2025
Winter is coming, I hope
Technically, the dog days of summer run from July 3 through August 11. The term comes from ancient Greece. The star Sirius rises with the sun between these dates, adding to the heat, or so …
September 19, 2025
Fantasia football
I am currently trapped in the throes of a fantasy football fever. I never thought this would be the case, but as it turns out, I'm a micromanager. I have been poring over stats and …
September 12, 2025