Eileen Wingard

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Two dozen gentlemen, sporting silver vests, matching ties, black shirts, trousers and derbies, filed into the event space of the University City branch of the San Diego City Library  to deliver a spirited program that prompted the audience to clap, sing, and even dance. The San Diego Jewish Men’s

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Peter Yarrow, the iconic 80-year old folk singer of Peter, Paul and Mary fame, sat on the Garfield Stage at the Lawrence Family JCC, singing and accompanying himself on an acoustic guitar, while his tall son, Christopher, strummed along on a washbasin bass, with a single clothesline string. 

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — What glorious Gershwin at the San Diego Symphony’s August 17 and 18 Bayside Summer Nights concerts! Conductor Rob Fisher assembled an outstanding trio of vocalists to sing the Gershwin songs and led the San Die Symphony in a splendid rendition of An American In Paris. Before conducting Gershwin’s famous

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO –The Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra’s (TICO’s) annual Pops Concert was an entertaining, musical event which had the audience laughing out loud at one point, as Victoria Robertson, a statuesque soprano, dressed as Wonder Woman, chased conductor David Amos around the stage. This was after he escaped her lasso, following the

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — For his final season as Music Director of the La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, before handing over the director’s reins to the brilliant Israeli pianist, Inon Barnatan, violinist Cho-Liang Lin has assembled an outstanding group of artists to perform at sixteen concerts. Each concert includes a Prelude Lecture or

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The Ohr Shalom Social Hall was filled to capacity with congregants from that synagogue and from Congregation Beth Am. They came to hear a concert of their combined choirs, under the direction Of Elisheva Edelson. In addition to her own guitar accompaniment, there were two other guitarists, a drummer