The event will host a record 21 concerts in July and August. The lineup features pianist Joyce Yang, clarinetist Anthony McGill, the Miró Quartet, jazz vocal star Cecile McLorin Salvant, and more
SummerFest, La Jolla Music Society’s annual chamber-music celebration, will be bigger than ever in 2022, literally.
“The idea is that you’re really joining us for a festival that is festive, a party,” said SummerFest music director Inon Barnatan. Indeed, the Aug. 17 jazz concert by the classically trained Salvant and her quartet is a preview of things to come, noted Todd Schultz, the society’s CEO and president. For the record, the “Under the Influence” theme has nothing to do with the drinking habits of any composers, even if Beethoven’s well-documented propensity for alcohol consumption ravaged his liver.“As tongue in cheek as the title is, there is another element,” stressed Barnatan, who is an internationally acclaimed concert pianist.
While the Boulanger tribute did not coalesce for this year’s SummerFest, it inspired Barnatan to create the three-part “A Weekend in Paris” series, which will run Aug.5-7. It will feature music by composers who were based in the French capital city, or spent pivotal times in their careers there, including Debussy, Chopin, Ravel, Messiaen, Schumann and Lili Boulanger, Nadia’s younger sister.
“That concert is a product of my fascination, which is shared by others, with the effect Wagner’s music and personality had on other composers,” Barnatan said. “Wagner’s ‘Tristan und Isolde’ changed music and changed harmony, and steered it to different directions. The concert will be a deep dive into the world of harmonic possibilities.”
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