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concert schedule
Blood, Sweat & Tears | Monsters
in the Park | ATribute Concert | Music
at the Millpond | Radiohead Transcribed
| The "A" Team | Island
of Innocence
blood, sweat & tears
Friday, August 1
8:00pm
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Tickets: $32, $28, $25, $20
Featuring the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop;
one world premiere and one West Coast premiere;
guest artists violinist Yumi Hwang-Williams and soprano Hila Plitmann;
and three participating composers: Michael Daugherty, David Del Tredici,
and Emily Wong.
Emily Wong: Structures
III (World Premiere)
 Columns and Corridors
Gateway to Askleposis
Gathering
Michael Daugherty: Fire
and Blood (West Coast Premiere)
featuring Yumi Hwang-Williams,
violin
David Del Tredici: Dracula
featuring Hila Plitmann, soprano
Blood, Sweat and Tears. The red carpet unfurls on Opening Night, Friday,
August 1st, to usher in all three featured composers for three spellbinding
works. Composer Michael Daugherty joins you for the West Coast Premiere
of Fire and Blood, a violin concerto featuring concertmaster
Yumi Hwang-Williams as soloist. In a work inspired by Mexican modernist
Diego Rivera’s "Detroit Industry" murals and the artist’s collaboration
with his wife Frida Kahlo, Daugherty has created a musical fresco of mechanical
motion and human emotion, brutality and beauty, dissonance and consonance.
This passionate musical embrace continues when Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
David Del Tredici joins Festival audiences for his monodrama Dracula.
A setting of a poem by Alfred Corn entitled My Neighbour, The Distinguished
Count, this toothsome scene is delivered by a lady, soprano Hila
Plitmann, who has been seduced by her aristocratic neighbor, has been
transformed into a vampire herself, and experiences life on an unimaginably
heightened plane. The text is for much of its length spoken in the manner
of a melodrama, and begins "At first thinking it was harmless/Enough, I
told myself I had pints/To spare, so why refuse a simple favor?" Both funny
and scary, the work promises nervous giggles and unexpected gasps. The evening
also holds the excitement of a World Premiere: Emily Wong’s Structures
III. In this work, Wong grapples with the notion of music as architecture,
where notes become columns, columns become corridors, and where corridors
become passageways leading us from earth to the heavens. (Opening Night
begins with a Pre-Concert Talk by Marin Alsop and a special dinner served
al fresco at the Civic Auditorium.)
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