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Print For many of the nationally prominent classical musicians who traveled to San Diego last October for the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra drive-in concert series, it was a welcome if surreal experience to perform in the main parking lot of the Del Mar Fairgrounds as cars zipped by on the adjacent Interstate 5. For David Chan, it was also a homecoming. “I grew up in Del Mar, and my parents live there to this day,” said the violin virtuoso, who is the concertmaster for New York’s famed Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. “It was amazing to play at the fairgrounds, a place I grew up goin...

I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. If you need a lift during these troubled times, take four and a half minutes out of your day and experience San Diego IndieFest founder Danielle LoPresti’s video performance of “22 Mountains.” The re-recording of the title track from a 2003 album by LoPresti and her band, The Masses, is a passionate exhortation of hope and courage, slightly reworded from the original composition by LoPresti and Matthew Stewart. The message — to parents, to teachers, to artists, to act...