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New York Times review from August 2003

"...it was powerful stuff, and it was conducted with characteristic focus and flair by music director Marin Alsop. If the two composers seemed an odd couple—Adès so flashy and so British, Adams deeply American and increasingly writing with the wisdom of middle age—the net effect was invigorating, to say the least."

—San Francisco Chronicle
Josuah Kosman
August 13, 2003

“For lovers of contemporary music, Santa Cruz, California is the place to be during the first two weeks of August.”

—BBC Music Magazine


Wall Street Journal review from August 2001

More words of acclaim:

"The orchestra unleashed bristling performances of contemporary music....The Cabrillo Festival has shown how to build a sustaining community around progressive music."

—Wall Street Journal

"Adventures in American Music –– The Cabrillo Music Festival’s claim to fame is contemporary American orchestra music..."

—Los Angeles Times

"By promoting contemporary composers who are overlooked and underexposed in the Bay Area, Marin Alsop has staked out a unique place for herself in the Northern California artistic community during her decade as music director of the Cabrillo Music Festival."

—San Francisco Chronicle

"Two of the most thoughtful and original summer musical weekends anywhere in America."

- Mark Swed, —The Wall Street Journal

"No. 1 choice for festival fun in California!"

—TIME Magazine

"The performances were excellent, as they always are –– vigorous, sensitive, and thoroughly prepared. Alsop is a prodigiously gifted conductor, and it shows in everything she does."

—San Francisco Chronicle

"...the Cabrillo Festival is an asset to be cherished...It's the ambiance that opens the door to musical adventurousness."

—San Jose Mercury News

"One of the pleasures of the Cabrillo Festival is its ability to infuse recent music with both the excitement of discovery and the assured presence of repertory pieces..."

—San Francisco Chronicle

"This is the festival where my son discovered music could 'sound like candy tastes'."

—Good Times

 

 

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