San Diego Weekend Arts Events: 'Crying on the Blue Line Trolley,' soundON Festival, Mission Trails, Preston Swirnoff and more
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By JULIA DIXON EVANS
'Surreality': The 14th Annual soundON Festival
Music
The Athenaeum Music and Arts Library and San Diego New Music are presenting their 14th annual festival of new music this weekend, featuring SDNM's house ensemble, NOISE. The "surreality" in the title refers to the idea of a cautious return to normalcy. Their curated selections reflect the same surreality, and also include three works that were selected for the postponed 2020 soundON Call for Scores — Uri Kochavi's "Obsessive Compulsive [dis] Order" is in Thursday's program, and Saturday features both João Pedro Oliveira's "Tension-deformation" and Lansing McLoskey's "This Will Not Be Loud And Relentless, Part ii: This Will Not Be Loud."