January 15, 1999
By Elizabeth Posadas
Southwestern College will sponsor the San Diego/Tijuana New Music Festival concert featuring contemporary chamber music written by composers from the bi-national community. The event will be held Monday, January 25, 8 p.m. at the Lyceum Theatre. The purpose of this music festival is to foster new music that reflects a contemporary and regional voice.
The event is co-sponsored by the San Diego Repertory Theatre, the San Diego Children's Museum, the Centro Cultural de la Raza, the Orquesta de Baja California, with support from the Meet The Composer Foundation. A range of local professionals and student composers will present their pieces on stage directed by composer Joseph Julian Gonzalez and Dr. Barry Russell, Southwestern College Dean of Fine Arts. The festival will feature composer symposiums open to the public, where distinguished composers will discuss issues of current compositional practice.
A composer roundtable discussion and open rehearsal will take place at Southwestern College on Friday, January 22, at 6 p.m. in room 801.
Music festival ticket prices are $10 for general admission; students and seniors are $7. Tickets are on sale at the SWC Box Office and the San Diego Repertory Box Office. There will be concessions where composers and performers will sell their CDs.
For more information contact Pat Tracey of the SWC Fine Arts Department at (619) 482-6402 or call the San Diego Repertory Theatre at (619) 235-8025.
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