San Diego Weekend Arts Events: The Symphony, SoulKiss Theater, Bryan Ali Sanchez, Contemporary Music, New Dance And More

Speaker 1: 00:00 This week, our weekend preview offers lots of opportunities to stop worrying about what you're going to do for Thanksgiving. The San Diego symphony returns to Copley symphony hall plus works by emerging black playwrights new choreography from San Diego dance theater, a virtual night of contemporary instrumental music and new works on view by painter Brian, Allie Sanchez. And joining me is KPBS arts director, Juliet Dixon Evans. Julia. Welcome. Speaker 2: 00:29 Hi Maureen. Thanks for having me. Let's Speaker 1: 00:31 Start with the San Diego symphony is returned to Copley symphony hall. What can we expect is as we listened from home? Speaker 2: 00:39 Yeah, they're pulling this off with a few smaller ensembles and a pretty well orchestrated COVID routine. No pun intended there. I can't help, but think that these selections seem to have been chosen by director Rafael PRA to showcase these smaller ensembles and maybe even just the joy and playfulness of finally getting to perform together again. So we have some sonatas from a few lesser known Baroque composers, including one Giovanni Gabrieli who often instructed the brass instruments to serenade from the balcony for an effect. Well, the symphony sent their horns to the balcony to for social distancing. It's kind of a two birds, one stone effect, and we have Chevallier Dysinger George, who is one of the earliest known black classical composers, a Venezuelan fugue and waltz, and a lush serenade for wind instruments by Speaker 3: 02:01 [inaudible] Speaker 1: 02:02 Serenade for wind instruments in D minor. The San Diego symphony will stream a free performance tonight at seven. Also tonight for the theater minded, we can check out new emerging black LGBTQ women's voices. Tell us about soul kiss theaters offering. Speaker 2: 02:22 Yeah, soul kiss is the brain child of Mickey Vale who is pretty busy in the playwriting and rap and hip hop worlds in town. They've hosted a small playwriting workshop there for black women and wrote six new short works. It's a wide range of styles and backgrounds represented. For example, there's Kayla Ray, who is an active duty military black lesbian single mother whose work reflects her experience. There's writer, Keisha Lynn, more Elliott who has a book out that champions representation in art and LA based hip hop artists, queen candy Cole who's said she always loves the storytelling element of hip hop and has a new comedy work. There is many more and it's totally worth tuning into to listen to these up and coming voices. The whole workshop was in partnership with the old globe, Speaker 1: 03:14 A night of new playwrights by soul kiss theater broadcasts online tonight at seven San Diego dance theater has a new program this weekend fall in love with dance again, how can we watch and what do we know about it? Speaker 2: 03:29 Yeah, it's filmed and streaming virtually through the weekend and they've put together two brand new works and I've reemergence of one of founder, Jean Isaac's older pieces called cabaret dances, which is from 2010. The new works include a piece that tells this haunting story of the many bombings of the small nation of Laos. And then there's Terry Wilson's take on poetry, blending the work of Pablo Neruda, Rumi, and more with choreography along with a new composition by Armand Amar. I love it when spoken word or narrations paired with dance. So this should be a really lovely set. Speaker 1: 04:07 San Diego dance theaters fall in love with dance. Again, streams to night and Saturday at 7:30 PM and Sunday at five 30, San Diego, new music brings a new virtual program in partnership with the Athenaeum. Tell us about that. Speaker 2: 04:25 Yeah. So San Diego has this really vital experimental and contemporary music scene. And the Saturday you can check it out. There's a great lineup with percussionists, Nathan Hubbard, trumpeter, Rachel Allen and harvest Tasha Smith Godinez. Rachel Allen will perform some intriguing contemporary works for trumpet. Look, little low heavens by Hillary tan and fanfare for the women by Libby Larsen. And along with an improvisation piece, Nathan Hubbard will perform some of his own compositions for tuned percussion as well as some more experimental instruments like resonant metals and electronics and harvest Tasha Smith Godinez will perform a world premier work, and then another piece called mobile active simulated humanoids by Jose Gloria Cardenas in here's that clip of Godinez playing that piece. Speaker 1: 05:42 Miss Tasha Smith Godinez performs online with Nathan Hubbard and Rachel Allen in digital doses with San Diego, new music that Saturday at 7:30 PM. And in the visual art world, there's a new exhibition on, at bread and salt. What can we expect there? Speaker 2: 06:00 Yeah, it's Barrio Logan born and raised painter, Brian Ali Sanchez. He has a new exhibition of paintings on view right now, and it's viewable by appointment during their gallery hours and masks serve required, uh, Sanchez work studies inequality in the working class, kind of cliche and trauma that's associated with border culture and his own experience of a misplaced identity as a first-generation Mexican American, his paintings are really vivid and textual like with thick oils and exaggerated brush strokes that there's a lot of softness and abstraction and his details. And these are huge paintings. So if you're willing to make an appointment to see them, you'll be rewarded, but you can also get a good sense of his work online Speaker 1: 06:46 In search of by Brian Ali Sanchez is on view now at bread and salt by appointment Tuesday through Saturday through December 5th, for more arts events go to kpbs.org/arts or sign up for our weekly KPBS arts newsletter. And I've been speaking as always with KPBS arts editor and producer Julia Dickson Evans. Thank you, Julia. Speaker 2: 07:09 Thanks for having me, Maureen, have a great weekend. Speaker 1: 07:13 So many things are different about this Thanksgiving for so many people, but one thing is the same chef Bernard [inaudible] will be on midday edition next Wednesday, to answer your Thanksgiving questions, record your Thanksgiving questions on our phone line (619) 452-0228. Or you can find us on Twitter at KPBS midday.