When Classical Music Meets Surfing: "Sounds and Swells" at the San Diego Public Library April 15
by Mark Gabrish Conlan • Copyright © 2024 by Mark Gabrish Conlan • All rights reserved Last night (Monday, April 15) I went to the San Diego Public Library for an unusual, to say the least, event called Sounds and Swells, which combined live string quartet music by the Hausmann Quartet (whom my husband Charles and I had seen earlier just before Easter performing Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross at Verbatim Books with interspersed readings by local writers) with surfing films. The Hausmann Quartet’s Web site explained the program thusly: “Join us for the return of Sounds and Swells ! As part of this season’s San Diego Central Library Cinema & Sounds series, this collaboration between the Hausmann Quartet and Art of Elan at the Library’s Neil Morgan Auditorium features live music by Claude Debussy, Terry Riley, Franz Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn and Franz Schubert accompanying local surfing footage from McCracken Films and Joey Taylor Photography. This conce