Also this week, Nick Lowe at the Belly Up, a Luis Valdez film tribute in Chula Vista and more
Pianist Lang Lang will perform Thursday, March 26, at the Jacobs Music Center in downtown San Diego. There was no shortage of highlights at the recently completed Winter Olympic Games in Italy. One of them was classical pianist Lang Lang’s performance at the games’ opening ceremony in Milano Cortina.
Seated at a white grand piano, he teamed up with mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli in performing the Olympic Anthem. This wasn’t Lang’s first Olympics gig, either. Back in 2008, he performed at the Summer Games in Beijing.Once an acclaimed teen prodigy in China, Lang is now 43 and considered to be at the top of his profession. Whenever I hear a classical pianist of his stature I admittedly become a bit wistful, even rueful. Like many kids I took piano lessons as a child, and while I certainly never demonstrated the promise of a prodigy I was told by teachers that I had exceptional finger facility, that I had the chops to play really well. Alas, like many kids who took piano lessons I stopped taking them when my parents would allow me to do so, and I stopped playing. Shame on me. Hopefully Lang Lang, who is an active educator as well as a concert performer, will inspire children wherever he goes to play the piano, to stick with their lessons and to realize that their dreams don’t have to be on account of their parents but because they are theirs. British singer Nick Lowe will perform a solo acoustic show at The Belly Up in Solana Beach on Thursday, March 26. Besides being part of one of the great underrated British power pop bands Rockpile and releasing a solo album with one of my favorite titles — “Labour of Lust” — Nick Lowe has carved out for himself a respected niche in rock ‘n’ roll history. His is a career that will mark 60 years on in 2027. Yet in all those years I’ve never seen and heard Lowe in person. Here’s my chance — and yours: he’ll performA scene from filmmaker David Alvarado’s documentary “American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez,” screening Sunday, March 22, at the San Diego Latino Film Festival. The San Diego Latino Film Festival runs through Sunday at various venues including Southwestern College’s Performing Arts Center, where at 7 p.m. Sunday, filmmakerValdez is an artistic hero of mine. With farm workers and students, the Chicano artist formed the groundbreaking theater troupe El Teatro Campesino. He also wrote the play “Zoot Suit” and the film about Ritchie Valens, “La Bamba.” The film festival documentary is narrated by Edward James Olmos and features among others Lou Diamond Phillips, who played Valens in “La Bamba,” and labor activist Dolores Huerta.The inaugural cast of “Saturday Night Live UK,” which will be available for streaming Sunday on Peacock. It’s taken 50 years, but the British have finally hopped on the “SNL” bandwagon with their own version of the sketch comedy show: “Saturday Night Live UK.” It premieres in Britain on Saturday, as it should, then will be available for streaming by us Yanks via Peacock starting on Sunday. The British “SNL” will have its own cast of ensemble regulars and also will include regular musical guests. So why, with the established Saturday Night Live” on NBC flagging in quality over the past who-knows-how-many years would we be interested in a version from across the pond? I think I just answered my own question.Nothing against Miley – she’s a talented singer and performer whose longtime popularity goes back to her “Hannah Montana” days. But an innovator?Anyway, Ludacris is back to host this awards show from the Dolby Theatre in L.A. after having done so in 2024. He’ll perform, too, along with Lainey Wilson, Alex Warren, British singer-songwriter Raye and others. In the meantime, you can still sign up to vote for your favorites in 11 categories. Glad to see one of them is “Favorite Tour Photographer.” Those artists deserve more credit and recognition.2026 NFL Mock Draft: Updated 3-round projections after free agency‘A feeling of betrayal’: San Diego reacts to Cesar Chavez sex-abuse allegationsNext season has already started for SDSU’s basketball program, as roster decisions loomPadres agree to extension with colorful TV analyst Mark Grant
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