JANUARY EVENTS AT MISSION TRAILS REGIONAL PARK CENTER

January 9, 2012 (San Diego) -- On Sunday, January 15, 2012, the San Diego Clarinet Quintet will perform at Mission Trails Regional Park at 3:00 p.m. in the Visitor & Interpretive Center theater or amphitheater.

 

The quintet is part of the San Diego Clarinet Society, and is composed of professional musicians who have performed with the San Diego Symphony, San Diego Ballet Orchestra, San Diego Opera Orchestra, and Starlight Opera.

 

 

 

Their programs are diverse, ranging in styles from the classical chamber music of Mozart and Debussy, to jazz arrangements of music by Duke Ellington. Their interpretations of music by Scott Joplin and George Gershwin are stylistically accurate.

Also, interested audiences may attend a one hour program by John Clements on Saturday January 21, 2012 on the Old Mission Dam, Flume, and the San Diego River, in the Visitor Center Theater starting at 7:00 pm. John is a member of the California Missions Studies Association.

 

The majority of this program is taken from the 1930's "F. E. Green Report " and the Mission Water system. He has all of E. F. Green's 1930s pictures of the dam, flume, kilns, and other related items including pictures of another dam 1.5 miles downstream of Padre Dam, and an eyewitness account of another dam less than 2 miles above the mission. In addition descriptions of a possible dam at Adobe Falls (in Del Cerro), at least one mechanical well at the Mission, lavanderias, and several ditches taking water all the way to Old Town.