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SUMMARY:Preconcert Presentation: The Music Guild / SummerFest 2026 (Susan Greenberg & Friends)
DESCRIPTION:This SummerFest concert from the Music Guild is subtitled “Virtuosity and Color\,” a tagline it certain merits! Flute and harp take the spotlight in this program led by flutist Susan Greenberg—a 36-year veteran of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and recording artist for more than 500 screen works. Greenberg is joined by violinist Maya Magub\, violist Carson Rick\, and harpist Cristina Montes Mateo. \nFavorites by Fauré\, Saint-Saëns\, and Ravel—long celebrated for their ingenious timbral colors—are paired with gorgeous compositions by Fiorillo\, Piazzola\, Rolla\, and Andrès. The preconcert program—and add-on ($15) for single-ticket purchasers\, but free for members—takes place one hour before the performance and includes with wine and hors d’oeuvres. I hope to see many of my fellow chamber-music lovers at the show! \nFounded with the vision of providing familiar and comforting entertainment to the influx of émigrés who arrived in Los Angeles after World War II\, the Music Guild is one of the oldest chamber music presenters in the greater Southern California area\, dedicated to enriching the cultural fabric of our community through world-class performances and music educational programs.
URL:https://kristibrownmontesano.com/event/preconcert-presentation-the-music-guild-summerfest-2026-susan-greenberg-friends/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 580 Hilgard Avenue\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
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SUMMARY:Prelude Lecture: La Jolla Music Society SummerFest 2026—"Vienna 1900"
DESCRIPTION:The La Jolla Music Society celebrates its 40th SummerFest season with an extraordinary month of musical events. This celebrates some major forces that shaped the Viennese—and world—music scene at the turn of the century. Works include Arnold Schönberg’s arrange of Johann Strauss’s Kaiser-Waltz\, Richard Strauss’s early Violin Sonata (in a rare appearance)\, and Alban Berg’s  Sieben frühe Lieder (Seven Early Songs).\nBut pride of place goes to Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)\, a luxuriant and moving piece of late Romanticism—but with “new” chords that caused the stuffy judges of a Viennese music competition to disqualify it! \nLed by Music Director Inon Barnatan\, the LJMS SummerFest 2026 will offer 21 concerts\, 50+ free community events\, and over 100 world‑class musicians from around the globe. Prelude Lectures begin one hour before the performance in the beautiful JAI gathering space\, next to the main concert hall. \n 
URL:https://kristibrownmontesano.com/event/prelude-lecture-la-jolla-music-society-summerfest-2026-vienna-1900/
LOCATION:The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center\, 7600 Fay Avenue\, La Jolla\, CA\, 92037\, United States
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SUMMARY:Prelude Lecture: La Jolla Music Society SummerFest 2026—”What if″
DESCRIPTION:This compelling SummerFest program brings together very different masterworks “shaped by youth\, urgency\, and historical circumstance\, inviting us to imagine what could have been.” Lili Boulanger’s Two Pieces for Violin and Piano—a Nocturne (1911) and a Cortège (1914)—stands as one of her most frequently performed chamber works\, capturing her brilliant command of color\, texture\, and late-French Impressionism just a few years before her tragic death at age 24.  Viktor Ullmann’s String Quartet No. 3\, Op. 46—written in 1943 during Ullmann’s imprisonment at the Theresienstadt (Terezín) concentration camp—represents both a peak of late-Second Viennese School expressionism and an act of absolute cultural resistance under horrifying circumstances. Written two years before his untimely death at age 38\, George Gershwin’s landmark 1935 opera Porgy and Bess challenged ideas about American musical theater; virtuoso violinist Jascha Heifetz paid homage to Gershwin’s legacy in this “Selections from Porgy and Bess”—an pinnacle of the twentieth-century violin transcription repertoire. Finally\, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater (1736) is one of the most celebrated\, widely printed\, and frequently performed sacred works of the entire 18th century. Composed in the final weeks of the composer’s life\, it represents a watershed moment in music history—the bridge where the strict\, contrapuntal religious music of the Baroque era yields to the deeply expressive\, emotional directness of the emerging Galant style. My presentation will consider all of these works in the spirit of “What if\,” placing them in the context of their creation and charting their broader influence. \nLed by Music Director Inon Barnatan\, the LJMS SummerFest 2026 will offer 21 concerts\, 50+ free community events\, and over 100 world‑class musicians from around the globe. Prelude Lectures begin one hour before the performance in the beautiful JAI gathering space\, next to the main concert hall. \n 
URL:https://kristibrownmontesano.com/event/prelude-lecture-la-jolla-music-society-summerfest-2026-what-if%e2%80%b3/
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