http://www.sandiego.comArts at sandiego.comdaily1 http://www.sandiego.com/index.php?option=com_sdca&target=f2becc19-f420-4c18-b759-de8f6b0c6c11 Arts Composers have written concertos for every instrument imaginable, but when it came time for any maestro, ink-laden quill poised over an untouched sheet of manuscript paper, to be inspired to write a great trombone concerto, t... Christian Hertzog 2008-05-16T12:00:00-0700 http://www.sandiego.com/index.php?option=com_sdca&target=4192f7ef-ab6a-4b21-a590-66f9a8d8fa9d Arts The Israelis seated next to me at the Beta Dance Troupe's show on Wednesday would not stop talking, which didn't necessarily surprise me. I know a lot of Israelis, have family in Israel, and I've been to the country a few times. So when my neighbors co... Brian Schaefer 2008-05-16T12:00:00-0700 http://www.sandiego.com/index.php?option=com_sdca&target=151a000f-5c8e-49bc-8346-9a67f7f75961 Arts The ballet "Don Quixote" makes you laugh out loud, but also tugs at your heart. Based on the novel by Cervantes, it's the tale of an absent-minded knight in search of chivalrous adventures that will bring glory to his name. When he reaches fo... Kris Eitland 2008-05-14T12:00:00-0700 http://www.sandiego.com/index.php?option=com_sdca&target=a2ce53f9-ce5a-4c29-ba7e-64adcbaf90d1 Arts The most recent and presumably final installment in actor-pianist Hershey Felder’s current series of concert impressions of famous composers gives us Ludwig van Beethoven through the medium of a memoir. With his premiere of "Beethoven, As I ... George Weinberg-Harter 2008-05-14T12:00:00-0700 http://www.sandiego.com/index.php?option=com_sdca&target=7a4004dd-68ed-468b-a85e-03f5739fe590 Arts As I'm sure you're well aware, this past Sunday was Mother's Day – a day in which children celebrate the love, dedication, and sacrifice of the one who bore them with cards, chocolates, little gifts, and over-priced flowers. When Jean Isaac's took t... Brian Schaefer 2008-05-14T12:00:00-0700 http://www.sandiego.com/index.php?option=com_sdca&target=522c3092-671d-4576-823e-0b8ce13ea7c3 Arts The whimsical ethos of performance art and the staid protocol of symphony performance may be worlds apart, but American composer John Corigliano managed to merge them in his "Pied Piper Fantasy," his late 1970s flute concerto written for the ... Kenneth Herman 2008-05-12T12:00:00-0700 http://www.sandiego.com/index.php?option=com_sdca&target=2a205ff8-e265-4722-87d4-500097a6a158 Arts At a time when individual orchestras are sounding more and more alike, the Russians are a curious exception, maintaining a distinctive national character that sets them apart. Last fall the St. Petersburg Philharmonic brought its immaculately disciplin... Kenneth Herman 2008-05-09T12:00:00-0700 http://www.sandiego.com/index.php?option=com_sdca&target=0a3b2f66-704d-45cf-871d-4138f67d64fb Arts The challenge: to write a short comedy about death. Now playing at 6th at Penn as the final offering under that name, "Funny Bones," a collection of four new one-act plays by San Diego playwrights, is the wildly varied result. Not always wildly ... Frankie Moran 2008-05-06T12:00:00-0700 http://www.sandiego.com/index.php?option=com_sdca&target=7e676edc-1d1a-45b7-9dba-ea265bae207f Arts The canonical New Testament, edited and selected out of a welter of texts by the early church fathers during various synods of the fourth century, provides a sometimes contradictory account of Jesus and his teachings. Sensible Christians might discover... George Weinberg-Harter 2008-05-05T12:00:00-0700 http://www.sandiego.com/index.php?option=com_sdca&target=2c6dec28-d6ee-47a1-8a62-0404a2498757 Arts Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers), the final offering of San Diego Opera’s 2008 season, features the local debut of two remarkable artists – American tenor Charles Castronovo and his real-life ... David Gregson 2008-05-04T12:00:00-0700 http://www.sandiego.com/images/newsitem_icon.gifhttp://www.sandiego.com