Cecil Lytle News Today

By Ernie McCray Two people kept Martin Luther King’s spirit of love breathing for me on MLK Day, Steve Phillips," writer and founder of Democracy in Color, and Grammy Award winning jazz trumpeter and film score composer, Terence Blanchard.

By Ernie McCray I don’t know if there is anything like the joy of being on stage. Such were my thoughts after the last time I was on one, doing “Still, We Rise,” a Poetry and Jazz Show, at the Conrad Prebys Music Center at UC San Diego, with some amazingly talented people the world…

Terence Blanchard is an Oscar-nominated film composer and leading jazz trumpeter

This week, Project [BLANK], trumpeter Terence Blanchard, wild animals caught on camera, Barbara Walter's legacy and more

Martin Luther King Jr. Day to be celebrated with events across San Diego County

Martin Luther King Jr. Day to be celebrated with events across San Diego County

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This week, Oceanside Museum of Art, Wilco, Strawberry Festival and more

Pianist Cecil Lytle has been a San Diego presence for over four decades, a specialist in Liszt (he won First Prize in the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition), jazz, and 20th-century music. He appeared on Jazz at the Athenaeum in 1993, and this marks his first performance for our Chamber Music Series. His concert features music by two great piano virtuosos: Franz Liszt and Thomas “Fats” Waller. The concerts will be in person at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library. There are no phy...

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