News & Reviews“According to all the traditional marketing dicta, not to mention the persistent naysaying Cassandras of the orchestral world, this is a formula that is not supposed to work... But at age 43 the Cabrillo Festival is looking better than ever... More than just an improbable enterprise, it’s an improbable success story.” — Symphony magazine "Alsop has used her taut, expressive conducting style and the skills of a first-rate pickup orchestra to argue forcefully for the place of orchestral music on the postmodern landscape." — San Francisco Chronicle "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 "Big shifts are happening in the symphonic world, and Cabrillo is an important carrier of that message." —San Jose Mercury News "The American Symphony Orchestra League…would do well to fund a thorough case study of the Cabrillo phenomenon as a model for all the symphonies out there who are struggling to survive, looking desperately for formulae to stimulate and draw audiences. Clearly, Cabrillo has achieved something that others do not remotely grasp." —Arts San Francisco "The Cabrillo Festival's most recent program radiates the new rainbow of color and timbre of the American 21 st century orchestra." —Metro Santa Cruz "…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 "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 "Over 11 seasons [with the Cabrillo 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 "For lovers of contemporary music, Santa Cruz, California is the place to be during the first two weeks of August." —BBC Music Magazine "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 |
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