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Saturday, August 14 8:00pm Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Tickets: $32 $28 $25 $20
Saturday Night performance featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
John Adams and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, conducted by Marin
Alsop.
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Three Screaming
Popes
John Adams: The Dharma at Big Sur
(Tracy Silverman, electric violin)
Thomas Adès: Asyla
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams' The Dharma at
Big Sur, starring Tracy Silverman, was hailed by The
Wall Street Journal as "a heartbreakingly beautiful work
for electric fiddler and full orchestra." Commissioned by the
Los Angeles Philharmonic for the opening of the Walt Disney Concert
Hall, the Los Angeles Times called it "one big rapturous bear
hug of a score, a spine-tingling hommage to two of California's
most lovable composers, the late Lou Harrison and minimalism's father,
Terry Riley." Add to this the music of Thomas Adès and
Michael-Anthony Turnage, two British phenoms that are all the rage
across the globe, and you have the makings of a night at Cabrillo
for the history books! It has been said of Adès that he "is
doing for classical music what Mark Morris did for modern dance:conveying
its vitality to an eager new audience." Asyla
was Adès' first large-scale orchestral work and it won him—at
the unprecedented age of 28—the prestigious Grawemeyer Prize
in 2000. Of Turnage it has been said he is one of the most admired
and widely performed composers of his generation. His exuberant
Three Screaming Popes was inspired by the composer's
encounter with three scandalous Francis Bacon paintings, studies
after Velasquez' famous portrait of Pope Innocent X.
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