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Sunday, August 15 4:00pm & 8:00pm Mission San Juan
Bautista
Tickets: $35 day $30 evening
Sunday afternoon and evening Grand Finale performances in the splendor of the old Mission sanctuary, featuring Grammy Award-winning guitarist Sharon Isbin and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop.
Jennifer Higdon: blue cathedral
Christopher Rouse: Concert de Gaudi (Sharon
Isbin, guitar)
James MacMillan: Tryst [West Coast Premiere]
The serene beauty of the old Mission at San Juan Bautista, coupled with its centuries-old connection to music making, imbues our Grand Finale concerts each season with something almost divine, certainly mystical. We steal away from our everyday lives to journey beyond the mundane, and each time the power of music and place transports us. This year's travels begins with Jennifer Higdon's beautifully orchestrated blue cathedral. "Blue—like the sky. Where all possibilities soar. Cathedrals—a place of thought, growth, spiritual expression, serving as a symbolic doorway into and out of this world." Then Sharon Isbin, considered the pre-eminent guitarist of our time, joins us to journey forward in Christopher Rouse's Grammy Award-winning Concert de Gaudi. "From the opening swirl of flamenco-style gestures, through the poignant, ballad-like slow movement and the scintillating finale, the score…presents expressive passages for the guitar against a brilliant orchestral palette…" Then Scottish composer James MacMillan's tone poem Tryst receives its West Coast premiere performances. Tryst is inspired by the words and sounds of William Soutar's love poem written in broad Scots, a language descended from Old English. Of his tone poem MacMillan says, "its melodic characteristics, matching the original words, seem to imply many very strong associations—commitment, sanctity, intimacy, faith, love…but it is also saturated with a sadness as if all these things are about to expire." For 30 years, the Mission at San Juan Bautista has played host to some of the most moving and memorable musical experiences imaginable. This year's Grand Finale at the Mission is not to be missed!
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