Friday 8.1 Opening Night
Friday, August 1, 8:00pm
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Tickets: $26-$41 / click here to order
Stephen McNeff: Sinfonia (U.S. Premiere)
Eric Lindsay: Darkness Made Visible (World Premiere)
David W. Sanford: Scherzo Grosso (Matt Haimovitz, cello)
Christopher Rouse: Concerto for Orchestra (World Premiere/Cabrillo Festival Commission)
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| This very First Night is itself full of firsts. Composer Stephen McNeff of the U.K. will join you for the U.S. Premiere of Sinfonia, a fast-paced concert opener commissioned and premiered by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Marin Alsop. Twenty-eight year old composer Eric Lindsay hails from a bit closer to home—born in Santa Cruz and raised on Whidbey Island, Washington—his music is described by Other Minds’ Artistic Director Charles Amirkhanian as “lush, evocative, with unusual lines...completely inventive." Tonight Lindsay is with you for the World Premiere performance of his newly revised Darkness Made Visible, a work described as a collision of two opposing musical forces: one angular, aggressive and disjointed; the other conservative, harkening back to a “Lisztian bravura.” |
“[Matt Haimovitz]… is one of the most adventurous classical musicians out there.”
—Boston Globe |
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Renowned cellist Matt Haimovitz has become a legend in the music world for pushing beyond conventions—be it performances in surprising venues or collaborations with unexpected partners around unpredicted genres. Tonight he makes his Festival debut with composer David Sanford’s Scherzo Grosso, a “classical-funk-jazz-bebop-hip-hopping” work originally composed for cello and big band, and then rescored for full orchestra. The evening ends with a Festival milestone: the World Premiere performance of the third in a series of recent Festival commissions. Pulitzer-prize winner Christopher Rouse is among the most respected composers of his generation, and among Marin Alsop’s favorites. His Concerto for Orchestra was commissioned by a group of Cabrillo Festival patrons in honor of the Festival’s longtime staff members. Four composers in the house, a Festival commission, World and U.S. Premieres, and a stellar soloist make this a First Night to remember!
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“[Rouse’s] music is relevant, visceral, moving and thrilling—music that can change people, music that makes time stop; it is, pure and simple, great art.”
—Marin Alsop |
| (The 2008 opening night begins with an outdoor Pre-Concert Talk by Marin Alsop and a special ticketed dinner prepared by Feast for a King and served alfresco at the Civic Auditorium. Reservations required.) |
CLICK HERE FOR FIRST NIGHT PROGRAM NOTES |
Photo (clockwise beginning L): Matt Haimovitz (H. Thomson); David Sanford, Eric Lindsay, Stephen McNeff, and Christopher Rouse (Jeffrey Herman)
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