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Friday, August 6 8:00pm Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Tickets: $32 $28 $25 $20

Opening Night performance featuring three participating composers, guest artists Kronos Quartet, and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop.

Kevin Puts: Vespertine Symphonies
Julia Wolfe: My Beautiful Scream (Kronos Quartet) [U.S. Premiere]
Aaron Jay Kernis: Color Wheel

The night begins with Puts' latest work entitled, Vespertine Symphonies inspired by Icelandic singer Björk. Then founder and Artistic Co-Director of New York's Bang on a Can Festival, composer Julia Wolfe joins us for the U.S. Premiere of My Beautiful Scream, written for and performed by Grammy Award-winner Kronos Quartet. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis joins us for Color Wheel. With the designer's color wheel and Sufi whirling dervishes as his visual inspirations, Kernis' work employs a wide array of contrasts in dynamics and sounds for a rich and colorful exploration of the orchestra. (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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