Eileen Wingard

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Pianist Jessie Chang, the talented wife of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra’s Conductor Emeritus, Jahja Ling, was the soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 at TICO’s  January 27 concert at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. The lovely artist played with musicality and grace. The second movement was particularly lyrical and

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — A highlight of the Hanukkah week in San Diego was the Broken Consort concert December 4, at Smith Hall, on the campus of San Diego State University. The program was entitled, “Shimmering Lights,” and was based on the newly released album by klezmer violinist Yale Strom, his wife, vocalist

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The vivacious pianist, Ines Irawati, welcomed the overflow crowd in Monique Kunewalder’s living room before her partner for the Piano Duo Recital, Daniel Wnukowski, introduced their first selection, Dance Macabre by Saints-Saens. This transcription for two pianos from the orchestral original was carried off with crackling demonic fervor, and Wnukowski’s

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Patrick Henry High School’s new PHAME Auditorium was the setting for the first of the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra’s (TICO) recent pair of concerts, Sunday, November 4 and Tuesday, November  6. I heard the Tuesday evening performance at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, but I learned from others that the excellent

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Although many composers in the past have imitated the sounds of water in their music, such as Vivaldi in The  Four Seasons, Beethoven in the Pastorale Symphony, Mendelssohn in the Fingal’s Cave Overture and Respighi in the Fountains of Rome, never has a basin of water been incorporated