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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 island of innocence: music at the mission Sunday, August 10 Featuring the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop; Augusta Read Thomas: Prayer Bells (West Coast Premiere)
Richard Danielpour: Metamorphosis
(West Coast Premiere) Kevin Puts: Symphony #2: Island of Innocence (West Coast Premiere) Island of Innocence: Music at the Mission. Few settings compare to the sanctuary of Mission San Juan Bautista. Fewer still for the performance of symphonic music. For twenty-eight years the Festival has been privileged to explore its magic and know the sacred power of this place. On Sunday, August 10th for two grand finale performances, 4pm and 8pm, three composers will be there to experience three West Coast Premieres. It begins with Augusta Read Thomas’ Prayer Bells. She says of the title, it "can mean anything from miniature, intimate prayer bells one would find in a meditation context, to a massive carillon of bells in a cathedral, to metaphorically representing an inner tolling to pray in the human soul." Of the work, she says, "The music is passionate throughout as if something big is at stake." Grammy Award-winner Richard Danielpour joins us for Metamorphosis, his three movement concerto for piano and chamber orchestra. Christopher O’Riley is featured soloist in a journey of a mortal being (the piano) grappling with his own demons and life’s outer forces (the orchestra) and finding redemption. Kevin Puts is one of the most promising young composers in the United States. At 30-years-old his honors include a recent award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and a Rome Prize. His Symphony No. 2: Island of Innocence is inspired by the events of 9/11. In the September 24, 2001 issue of The New Yorker writer Jonathan Franzen wrote "In the space of two hours we left behind a happy era of Game Boy economics and trophy houses and entered a world of fear and vengeance." Puts’ work reflects that paradigm shift, beginning with the unsuspecting climate, and moving toward upheaval and darkness, to a place of uncertainty interlaced with glimmers of hope. The Mission shelters us on an island of spirituality to experience these three stirring works. |
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