UCSC Extension, Continuing Education Class Offering:
Cabrillo Festival and Contemporary Music
June 23-July 28, 2005NEW THIS YEAR! The Cabrillo Festival's "program radiates the new rainbow of color
and timbre of the 21st-century orchestra." –– Scott MacClelland,
MetroSantaCruz, August 2004 Course Description:
Each summer the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music functions as a gathering spot for creative expression to dozens of composers and performers from across the globe. For audiences, it serves as a looking glass to the world of contemporary symphonic music. This six-week course invites participants to discover the landscape of new music through an in-depth examination of the composers and works featured at the 2005 Festival season. The class includes lectures, discussion, recorded musical samplings, and musical demonstrations. It stands alone as an overview to new music, or as the ultimate pre-Festival introduction. Instructor:
Philip Collins, M.A. in music performance practice from UCSC; a composer; conductor; co-founder and artistic director of New Music Works; guest lecturer at S.F. Conservatory of Music, and instructor at Cabrillo and Hartnell Colleges; former classical music writer for Metro San Jose and Santa Cruz Sentinel; and former KUSP programmer for "Fast Forward." Collins studied conducting with Nicole Paiement and electronic music with Peter Elsea; he also studied composition with Lou Harrison, Edwin Dugger, Henry Onderdonk, and John Krieder, and guitar with Stanley Beutens and Jerry Hahn. Dates:
6 Meetings: Thursdays, 6:30-8:30pm, June 23-July 28. Location:
1347 Pacific Avenue, Suite 201, Office of the Downtown Association of Santa Cruz Fee:
$150.00 (Credit: An optional 1 unit of credit is available for an additional $50 fee.) For more information and registration, call the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music at (831) 426.6966 or email nancy@cabrillomusic.org. "Big shifts are happening in the symphonic world, and Cabrillo [Festival] is an
important carrier of that message." –– Richard Scheinin,
San Jose Mercury News, August 2004
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