La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest to expand from three to four weeks in 2022

“SummerFest, the La Jolla Music Society’s annual chamber music celebration, will be bigger than ever in 2022,” writes George Varga in Sunday’s (3/20) San Diego Union-Tribune. “For the first time in the event’s 36-year history, SummerFest will expand from three to four weeks…. It will feature 21 concerts…. The lineup includes … clarinetist Anthony McGill, the Miro Quartet and the 19-piece chamber orchestra The Knights [and] violinist and singer Caroline Shaw, who at 30 became the youngest artist to ever win a Pulitzer Prize for music composition…. The lineup includes … countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo [performing] songs by German composer Kurt Weill. SummerFest … will also see the introduction of intermissionless Wednesday-afternoon concerts, which will be followed by food and wine … in the courtyard of the society’s Conrad Prebys Center for the Performing Arts…. The goal of the event’s expansion is to make it more leisurely … with the festival going dark on Monday and Tuesday nights. ‘This way, there will be more space around the concerts,’ [SummerFest Music Director Inon Barnatan] noted…. This year’s SummerFest … explores events, places and individuals that inspired the storied composers whose music will be performed.”