Tag: Cabrillo Music Festival Fri, March 19, 2010
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Impressive Opening for Cabrillo Festival
Aug 11, 2009, by Scott MacClelland Community -
Ten Questions for Marin Alsop
Aug 08, 2009, by Staff Community -
Cabrillo Festival Hits The Street
Aug 08, 2009, by Jessica Lussenhop Community -
The Cabrillo Music Festival Bursts into Santa Cruz
Aug 06, 2009, by Scott MacClelland Community
The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music doesn’t just offer the best of today’s leading American composers, to say nothing of their genius counterparts from other countries. It also proves, summer after summer, that there is a great hunger for excellent new music and, just as important, one that spans many generations.
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It’s early Sunday evening and musicians are trickling in to the Civic—musicians in flip flops, musicians in blue jeans, musicians in stylish haircuts. Slowly the orchestra comes awake in a chaos of indelicate morning noises: bleeps and sour yawns and fragments of melody abandoned before they’ve started make sense. Tuning up, the two harpists strain to hear the bell-like tones of their instruments, then fall to chatting.
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Art in Uncertain Times
May 05, 2009, by Don Rothman OpinionWe are searching for new paradigms with which to understand the global economy, and this search includes bewilderment at how greed can be shameless, lies and selfishness can abound even among decent people, and, despite our access to vast amounts of information, how our ignorance is (sometimes tragically, sometimes comically) irrepressible. It occurs to me that its through our exposure to art that we have developed a capacity to keep asking what if? sorts of questions and to discern the human consequences of catastrophes. Art can prompt us to hope for and design a better way.

