San Diego’s symphony hall, the Jacobs Music Center, is reopening this weekend after extensive refurbishment with Mahler’s second symphony.
As an unusual prelude to the ribbon cutting, music director Rafael Payare took the oath of US citizenship.
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From our resident critic: How bizarre it is that some of Shakespeare’s plays have long been labelled “problem plays” – bizarre because all Shakespeare plays are problematic, because one can’t help feeling that it was […]
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