Art of Elan's second concert of the season, to be performed at San Diego Museum of Art, features works that collectively are a 'message of hope and optimism'
The Hausmann Quartet and Maritime Museum of San Diego are excited to partner to present the seventh season of Haydn Voyages: Music at the Maritime, a quarterly concert series performed aboard one of the Museum’s historic world-class vessels, the 1898 steam ferryboat Berkeley that operated for 60 years on San Francisco Bay.Four compositional giants meet on this concert program: Haydn, Beethoven, John Cage and Caroline Shaw. The dialogue among them is sometimes direct, and at other times less obvious, but Caroline Shaw sums it up best in her program note to her 2016 work, Blueprint:“Chamber music is ultimately about conversation without words. We talk to each other with our dynamics and articulations, and we try to give voice to the composers whose music has inspired us to gather in the same room and play music. Blueprint is also a conversation with Beethoven, with Haydn (his teacher and the "father" of the string quartet), and with the joys and malinconia of his Op. 18 N
The third season of the Del Mar International Composers Symposium (DMICS) will take place Aug. 1-14, including four concerts featuring new music by DMICS’ composition fellows, performed by its artists-in-residence: The Hausmann Quartet (Aug. 5, 7:30 p.m., Del Mar Town Hall), Hub New Music (Aug. 9, 7:30 p.m., Powerhouse Community Center), Konstantin Soukhovetski (Aug. 11, 7:30 p.m., St.