Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

On March 20, 2006, Bittersweet Bistro’s Executive Chef Thomas Vinolus will pull out all the stops (and usher in the first day of Spring!) with five exquisite courses, perfectly partnered with five divine wines from: Equinox Champagne, Ahlgren Vineyard, Testarossa Vineyards, Storrs Winery, and Bonny Doon Vineyard.

Meet the winemakers and winery representatives as they discuss the wines they have so generously donated. Help support the Cabrillo Festival while you nourish the secret oneophile — [EE-nuh-file] someone who enjoys wine — in you.

CALL the Cabrillo Festival to reserve your seats: 831.426.6966.
$125/person includes tax and gratuities

The evening also includes a RAFFLE with magnificent prizes donated by:
Best of Everything, Equinox, Gravago, and Lundberg Studios.

SOUNDWAVES from santa cruz...
the latest news about the festival and our artists

20 September 2005 MARIN ALSOP WINS "GENIUS GRANT"....
Twenty-five recipients of MacArthur Foundation grants were announced today. Read more:
New York Times
San Jose Mercury News

29 August 2005 TOUCH THE SOUND benefit screening SEPT. 15th....

Don’t miss this SNEAK PREVIEW screening and benefit for Cabrillo Festival!
Special thanks to Nickelodeon Theatres and Shadow Distribution.
More info about the film, visit: http://www.touch-the-sound.com/

19 August 2005 NEW LEAF COMMUNITY DAY-THURS, AUGUST 25th...
Cabrillo Festival just celebrated an incredible 2005 season! To all those that participated, supported, attended, and/or cheered us on from the seats or the sidelines –– thank you! Now, on the heels of that excitement, comes our very own Community Day at New Leaf Community Markets, next week on Thursday, August 25th. Five percent of the entire sales that day from the Capitola, Santa Cruz, and Mission Street stores will be donated to the Festival, and is an essential part of our fundraising efforts. We hope you’ll save your special shopping for that day, and pass along the word to friends and family, too. It’ll be good food for a great cause! THANK YOU and New Leaf Community Markets for this generous support!

18 August 2005 AND THE WINNER IS...
This past Monday morning in the wake of a spectacular 2005 season, the winning ticket for the Vespa raffle was plucked from a basket and (drum roll, please)... it was Steve Vacchi, a member of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra! CONGRATULATIONS to Steve, a bassoon player from Portland, Oregon. AND our special thanks again to Il Motorino, our local Vespa dealership.

29 July 2005 ONLINE AUCTION NOW OPEN!
Click here for more information: ONLINE AUCTION!

22 July 2005 ACCOLADES CONTINUE..
The New York Philharmonic's May 2004 performance of Bernstein's Candide, broadcast on the PBS Great Performances series this past January, has been nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Special Class Program. The performance was conducted by Marin Alsop and featured Kristin Chenoweth, Patti LuPone, Paul Groves, Stanford Olsen, and Sir Thomas Allen.

20 July 2005 MARIN TO LEAD MAJOR AMERICAN ORCHESTRA ...
On Tuesday, July 19, Marin Alsop was appointed the next Music Director of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, becoming the first woman to lead a major American orchestra!

15 July 2005 MARIN TO MAKE HISTORY...
BREAKING NEWS FROM:
Newsday.com: Alsop Expects to Direct Baltimore Symphony
making her the first woman to lead a major American orchestra!

Watch for additional stories in the New York Times and San Jose Mercury News, Saturday, July 16; and in the San Francisco Chronicle on Monday, July 18!

2 July 2005 WIN MARIN'S bellismo NEW VESPA...

Cabrillo Festival Benefit Raffle - TICKETS: $10

Now through August 14, the Cabrillo Festival offers you a chance to discover the thrill of scooting around town on your very own molto caldo (hot!) Vespa. Support the Festival by racing out to buy bunches of tickets at any of these locations:

DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ
Cabrillo Festival Office - 104 Walnut Avenue, Ste. 206
Cabrillo Music Art & Wine Festival - on Church Street, all day long, August 6 & 7
MAH Museum Store - 118 Cooper Street
Palace Art & Office - 1407 Pacific Avenue
Santa Cruz County Bank - 325 Soquel Avenue
MIDTOWN SANTA CRUZ
Il Motorino Vespa Dealership - 2890 Soquel Avenue
SCOTTS VALLEY:
Santa Cruz County Bank - 4604 Scotts Valley Drive
WATSONVILLE:
Santa Cruz County Bank - 595 Auto Center Drive

Proxy bidding for sixteen luxury theme baskets will be open to all from July 27 through August 10 . Final bidding will take place at the "live" silent auction at the magical Music in the Mountains event to be held August 11 at Kennolyn's beautiful Hilltop Hacienda. Items include fabulous weekend getaways, a gourmet six-course dinner for eight served in your home by Chef Jonathan Miller, plus unique experiences for folks of all ages! We know that once you get a chance to peruse the wonderful array of auction items soon listed on our website, from the whimsical to the luxurious, you will want to participate - and you can - ONLINE! We hope to see you at Music in the Mountains on August 11, but you need not be present to win - you just need to have the highest bid. Bidding begins JULY 27 and closes AUGUST 10. Click here to get to the ONLINE AUCTION!

23 June 2005 FESTIVAL GOERS GET SPECIAL RATE...

The University Inn & Conference Center offers Festival patrons a discount.

University Inn & Conference Center – located at 611 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz, near downtown – will offer a discounted rate from August 1st through 14th to patrons who call toll free at 866.827.2466 and request the "Cabrillo Festival" rate (Double Occupancy: Weekday $99; Weekend $145 - Does not include 10% Occupancy Tax). This rate is not offered via the internet.

We hope you'll join us in Santa Cruz this summer. For more Santa Cruz travel, attractions, and visitor information, we recommend visiting the Santa Cruz County Conference and Visitors Council. Santa Cruz is a remarkable cultural destination including Shakespeare Santa Cruz, the Museum of Art and History, Cabrillo Stage, and much, much more. It's a place of extraordinary natural beauty, where creativity soars!

20 June 2005 AN ADVENTUROUS AWARD...

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music wins ASCAP Award [June 17, 2005]

For the 23rd consecutive year, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music has been selected to receive the national ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music. The First Place Award was announced at the American Symphony Orchestra League's National Conference in Washington, DC, on Friday, June 17, 2005.

Terfel, Alsop, Hough, Adams, Galway Among Winners of Classical Brit Awards
excerpted from The Independent [London] by Louise Jury [May 26, 2005]

Marin Alsop, a rare female conductor in a field dominated by men, was honoured last night at the Classical Brit Awards.

Alsop, a New Yorker who has a long track record of working in Britain, where she is principal conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, beat the American mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and the pianist Martha Argerich to win the female artist of the year award. Marin Alsop (photo: Grant Leighton/Colorado Symphony)

The honour comes just a fortnight before she is due to break the traditionally male preserve of the legendary Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on 8 June. She has been chosen as the first woman to conduct the orchestra because, its spokesman reportedly explained, 'there were no good female conductors until now'.

Alsop was joined in the line-up of award winners by the Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, who was named male artist of the year, and Katherine Jenkins, who won the album of the year prize after becoming the fastest-selling female opera singer since Maria Callas with "Second Nature."

In Sunday's Boston Globe (June 5, 2005), Richard Dyer writes about the upcoming Tanglewood season, which will be the first with BSO Music Director James Levine and will also feature the BSO debut of Marin Alsop, "now probably the most important woman conductor on the international scene." Dyer writes: "There are many other gifted women conducting in prominent positions and venues, more today than at any previous time -- Emmanuelle Haim, Simone Young, JoAnn Falletta, Jane Glover, and Gisele Ben-Dor, among others -- but Alsop seems to have crashed through the glass ceiling more completely than the others and soared higher above it." He adds that Alsop is "an alumna of the Tanglewood Music Center, so her Aug. 20 concert promises to be an exciting and emotional occasion." Alsop will become "the fourth woman to conduct the BSO. Nadia Boulanger was first, in 1938, and then came Sarah Caldwell in 1977 and Catherine Comet in 1990; of these, only Caldwell preceded Alsop on the BSO podium at Tanglewood."

The Story of Classical Music, the four-CD Naxos Audiobook has won two awards at the Audies, the annual spoken word awards presented by the Audiobook Publishers Association. The title won awards in the Original Work and Achievement in Production categories. Conductor Marin Alsop served as narrator for The Story of Classical Music, which was written by Darren Henley. (June 10, 2005)


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	Bittersweet Bistro Winemakers' Dinner Monday, March 20, 2006 787 Rio Del Mar, Aptos 6:30 pm Join Cabrillo Festival in the culinary event of the year! On March 20, 2006, Bittersweet Bistro’s Executive Chef Thomas Vinolus will pull out all the stops (and usher in the first day of Spring!) with five exquisite courses, perfectly partnered with five divine wines from: Equinox Champagne, Ahlgren Vineyard, Testarossa Vineyards, Storrs Winery, and Bonny Doon Vineyard. Meet the winemakers and winery representatives as they discuss the wines they have so generously donated. Help support the Cabrillo Festival while you nourish the secret oneophile — [EE-nuh-file] someone who enjoys wine — in you. The festivities start with a Champagne reception at 6:30 followed by a sumptuous Spring feast! Create your own table of friends or you can be seated with fellow Festival-goers. Don’t miss Santa Cruz County’s most memorable food & wine event. CALL the Cabrillo Festival to reserve your seats: 831.426.6966. $125/person includes tax and gratuities The evening also includes a RAFFLE with magnificent prizes donated by: Best of Everything, Equinox, Gravago, and Lundberg Studios. SOUNDWAVES from santa cruz... the latest news about the festival and our artists 20 September 2005 MARIN ALSOP WINS "GENIUS GRANT".... Twenty-five recipients of MacArthur Foundation grants were announced today. Read more: New York Times San Jose Mercury News 29 August 2005 TOUCH THE SOUND benefit screening SEPT. 15th.... from the director of “rivers and tides” comes: “TOUCH THE SOUND” an award-winning film about percussionist Evelyn Glennie THURSDAY \| SEPTEMBER 15 \| 7:00PM NICKELODEON THEATRE, SANTA CRUZ $20 (limited to 200) TO RESERVE YOUR SEATS call the Cabrillo Festival office today: 831.426.6966 a benefit screening for the cabrillo festival of contemporary music Award-winning director and cinematographer Thomas Riedelsheimer (“Rivers and Tides: Andrew Goldsworthy Working with Time”) takes us on a new journey through a universe of sound with percussionist Evelyn Glennie. Riedelsheimer followed Evelyn and her remarkable story through Santa Cruz, during the 2002 Cabrillo Festival, New York, Germany, Japan, England, and her native Scotland. This exquisite film features original music by Glennie and Bay area composer Fred Frith. This benefit screening will be followed by a Q&A session with composer/performer Fred Frith, a featured artist in the film, and composer for “Rivers and Tides.” Don’t miss this SNEAK PREVIEW screening and benefit for Cabrillo Festival! Special thanks to Nickelodeon Theatres and Shadow Distribution. More info about the film, visit: http://www.touch-the-sound.com/ 19 August 2005 NEW LEAF COMMUNITY DAY-THURS, AUGUST 25th... Cabrillo Festival just celebrated an incredible 2005 season! To all those that participated, supported, attended, and/or cheered us on from the seats or the sidelines –– thank you! Now, on the heels of that excitement, comes our very own Community Day at New Leaf Community Markets, next week on Thursday, August 25th. Five percent of the entire sales that day from the Capitola, Santa Cruz, and Mission Street stores will be donated to the Festival, and is an essential part of our fundraising efforts. We hope you’ll save your special shopping for that day, and pass along the word to friends and family, too. It’ll be good food for a great cause! THANK YOU and New Leaf Community Markets for this generous support! 18 August 2005 AND THE WINNER IS... This past Monday morning in the wake of a spectacular 2005 season, the winning ticket for the Vespa raffle was plucked from a basket and (drum roll, please)... it was Steve Vacchi, a member of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra! CONGRATULATIONS to Steve, a bassoon player from Portland, Oregon. AND our special thanks again to Il Motorino, our local Vespa dealership. 29 July 2005 ONLINE AUCTION NOW OPEN! Click here for more information: ONLINE AUCTION! 22 July 2005 ACCOLADES CONTINUE.. The New York Philharmonic's May 2004 performance of Bernstein's Candide, broadcast on the PBS Great Performances series this past January, has been nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Special Class Program. The performance was conducted by Marin Alsop and featured Kristin Chenoweth, Patti LuPone, Paul Groves, Stanford Olsen, and Sir Thomas Allen. 20 July 2005 MARIN TO LEAD MAJOR AMERICAN ORCHESTRA ... On Tuesday, July 19, Marin Alsop was appointed the next Music Director of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, becoming the first woman to lead a major American orchestra! San Jose Mercury News 7/23 Santa Cruz Sentinel 7/22 NY Times 7/21 Baltimore Sun 7/21 Baltimore Sun 7/20 NY Times 7/20 LA Times 7/20 15 July 2005 MARIN TO MAKE HISTORY... BREAKING NEWS FROM: Newsday.com: Alsop Expects to Direct Baltimore Symphony making her the first woman to lead a major American orchestra! Watch for additional stories in the New York Times and San Jose Mercury News, Saturday, July 16; and in the San Francisco Chronicle on Monday, July 18! 2 July 2005 WIN MARIN'S bellismo NEW VESPA... Cabrillo Festival Benefit Raffle - TICKETS: $10 Now through August 14, the Cabrillo Festival offers you a chance to discover the thrill of scooting around town on your very own molto caldo (hot!) Vespa. Support the Festival by racing out to buy bunches of tickets at any of these locations: DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ Cabrillo Festival Office - 104 Walnut Avenue, Ste. 206 Cabrillo Music Art & Wine Festival - on Church Street, all day long, August 6 & 7 MAH Museum Store - 118 Cooper Street Palace Art & Office - 1407 Pacific Avenue Santa Cruz County Bank - 325 Soquel Avenue MIDTOWN SANTA CRUZ Il Motorino Vespa Dealership - 2890 Soquel Avenue SCOTTS VALLEY: Santa Cruz County Bank - 4604 Scotts Valley Drive WATSONVILLE: Santa Cruz County Bank - 595 Auto Center Drive Winner drawn on August 15. Special thanks to Il Motorino! Benefit Auction goes ONLINE - Biddlng begins July 27. Proxy bidding for sixteen luxury theme baskets will be open to all from July 27 through August 10 . Final bidding will take place at the "live" silent auction at the magical Music in the Mountains event to be held August 11 at Kennolyn's beautiful Hilltop Hacienda. Items include fabulous weekend getaways, a gourmet six-course dinner for eight served in your home by Chef Jonathan Miller, plus unique experiences for folks of all ages! We know that once you get a chance to peruse the wonderful array of auction items soon listed on our website, from the whimsical to the luxurious, you will want to participate - and you can - ONLINE! We hope to see you at Music in the Mountains on August 11, but you need not be present to win - you just need to have the highest bid. Bidding begins JULY 27 and closes AUGUST 10. Click here to get to the ONLINE AUCTION! 23 June 2005 FESTIVAL GOERS GET SPECIAL RATE... The University Inn & Conference Center offers Festival patrons a discount. University Inn & Conference Center – located at 611 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz, near downtown – will offer a discounted rate from August 1st through 14th to patrons who call toll free at 866.827.2466 and request the "Cabrillo Festival" rate (Double Occupancy: Weekday $99; Weekend $145 - Does not include 10% Occupancy Tax). This rate is not offered via the internet. We hope you'll join us in Santa Cruz this summer. For more Santa Cruz travel, attractions, and visitor information, we recommend visiting the Santa Cruz County Conference and Visitors Council. Santa Cruz is a remarkable cultural destination including Shakespeare Santa Cruz, the Museum of Art and History, Cabrillo Stage, and much, much more. It's a place of extraordinary natural beauty, where creativity soars! 20 June 2005 AN ADVENTUROUS AWARD... Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music wins ASCAP Award [June 17, 2005] For the 23rd consecutive year, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music has been selected to receive the national ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music. The First Place Award was announced at the American Symphony Orchestra League's National Conference in Washington, DC, on Friday, June 17, 2005. 10 June 2005 MARIN RISING... Terfel, Alsop, Hough, Adams, Galway Among Winners of Classical Brit Awards excerpted from The Independent [London] by Louise Jury [May 26, 2005] Marin Alsop, a rare female conductor in a field dominated by men, was honoured last night at the Classical Brit Awards. Alsop, a New Yorker who has a long track record of working in Britain, where she is principal conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, beat the American mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and the pianist Martha Argerich to win the female artist of the year award. Marin Alsop (photo: Grant Leighton/Colorado Symphony) The honour comes just a fortnight before she is due to break the traditionally male preserve of the legendary Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on 8 June. She has been chosen as the first woman to conduct the orchestra because, its spokesman reportedly explained, 'there were no good female conductors until now'. Alsop was joined in the line-up of award winners by the Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, who was named male artist of the year, and Katherine Jenkins, who won the album of the year prize after becoming the fastest-selling female opera singer since Maria Callas with "Second Nature." •••••• In Sunday's Boston Globe (June 5, 2005), Richard Dyer writes about the upcoming Tanglewood season, which will be the first with BSO Music Director James Levine and will also feature the BSO debut of Marin Alsop, "now probably the most important woman conductor on the international scene." Dyer writes: "There are many other gifted women conducting in prominent positions and venues, more today than at any previous time -- Emmanuelle Haim, Simone Young, JoAnn Falletta, Jane Glover, and Gisele Ben-Dor, among others -- but Alsop seems to have crashed through the glass ceiling more completely than the others and soared higher above it." He adds that Alsop is "an alumna of the Tanglewood Music Center, so her Aug. 20 concert promises to be an exciting and emotional occasion." Alsop will become "the fourth woman to conduct the BSO. Nadia Boulanger was first, in 1938, and then came Sarah Caldwell in 1977 and Catherine Comet in 1990; of these, only Caldwell preceded Alsop on the BSO podium at Tanglewood." •••••• The Story of Classical Music, the four-CD Naxos Audiobook has won two awards at the Audies, the annual spoken word awards presented by the Audiobook Publishers Association. The title won awards in the Original Work and Achievement in Production categories. Conductor Marin Alsop served as narrator for The Story of Classical Music, which was written by Darren Henley. (June 10, 2005)
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