Tag: Cabrillo Music Festival Fri, March 19, 2010
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Impressive Opening for Cabrillo Festival
Aug 11, 2009, by Scott MacClelland Community
For even brand new music, the traditional expectation for personal artistic expression holds. Whatever else is afoot, the composer is expected to have something to say. So says Marin Alsop, music director of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, in defending her choices of orchestral music.
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Ten Questions for Marin Alsop
Aug 08, 2009, by Staff Community
The decorated conductor of the Baltimore Symphony and longtime director of the Cabrillo Music Festival tells us what she likes about Santa Cruz—and what she doesn’t like, ever.
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Cabrillo Festival Hits The Street
Aug 08, 2009, by Jessica Lussenhop Community
This weekend the Cabrillo Music Art & Wine Festival turns 18 years old—legal and ready to party with 14,000 of her best friends (by last year’s count).
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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 it’s 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.
