Bring the healing

Garrett Harris, San Diego Reader, 12th June 2015

There is a unique event coming up on Sunday, June 14th, at 3 p.m. — a free concert at Balboa Park’s Plaza de Panama.

What is the event? I’ll let Maestro Michael Francis tell us about it as we continue our interview.

San Diego Reader: How do we create a better community around classical music? I think that the culture around classical music is what is killing classical music. People aren’t resistant to the music itself.

Michael Francis: I think you absolutely make a very good point. I think what we are doing is interesting. One of the events I am most proud of this year is the San Diego Makes Music concert on the fourteenth of June. That is a concert where we have the festival orchestra, adult amateurs, and the youth orchestra playing along side them. We’ve also invited the community to bring their instruments to join in. We’re doing pieces by Mozart written for multiple levels [of musical ability].