"These composers have Alsop to thank for bringing their music
to life and to audiences. Their names may ultimately outlive hers,
but in the moment, she's the sun and they're the planets, and the
rest of us can fasten our seat belts for this 'screaming' ride around
a solar system called Cabrillo."
—Metro
Santa Cruz
Scott MacClelland
April 14, 2004
"…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
Joshua Kosman
August 13, 2003
"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
Brett Campbell
September 4, 2001
"Over 11 seasons [with Cabrillo Music Festival], Music Director
Marin Alsop has treated her composers like fine wines. She chooses
them for their aging potential, serves them to us regularly so we
can sample how their complexity is developing, and produces award-winning
product year after year."
—San Francisco Classical Voice
Jeff Dunn
August 2003
"For lovers of contemporary music, Santa Cruz, California
is the place to be during the first two weeks of August."
—BBC Music Magazine
August 2001
"For more than 40 years, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary
Music has been a notable West Coast outpost for new classical music.
But the festival, which has had a series of distinguished music
directors, has evolved[…]. "
—New
York Times review
John Rockwell
August 13, 2003
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