PENNINGTON — The Pennington School is hosting Excelsis Percussion Quartet for a three-day musicians-in-residence program for their students. Additionally, the quartet will present a concert on October 11 at 7:00 p.m. in the Stainton Hall Lecture Center. This performance is free and open to the public, thanks to the generous sponsorship of Brenda Martini O’loughlin […]
A cottage teetering on the edge of a roof, a 180-ton granite bear, and a 560-foot slithering snake are just some of the commissioned art on the UC San Diego campus that inspire discussions of what makes art.
Over the past few days concert goers at the Aspen Music Festival heard a Chinese composer’s piece for piano and orchestra that swerved from celestial beauty to agonizing noise, a saxophonist who delineated music by composers from Baroque to Björk with a pop artist’s flair, Wynton Marsalis’ delightful jazz-infused version of a Stravinsky classic and a 45-minute rumination of the history of time that spread sections of the orchestra around the perimeter of the music tent.
MTS recently held a grand opening for a new transit-oriented housing complex at the Grantville Trolley Station. In other news, as college students prepare to begin the fall semester, there’s a major change coming that will impact financial aid next fall. Plus, we learn about the Stuart Collection, that’s been commissioning site-specific public art for the UC San Diego campus since 1981.