The Cabrillo Festival of
Contemporary Music
2008 season on
KUSP
Marin Alsop, Music Director and
Conductor of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra
2008 season
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
announces its 46th anniversary season, July 27 through August 10 at
the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium and Mission San Juan Bautista,
California. Music Director/Conductor Marin Alsop celebrates her 17th
season.
For information on the festival
season, click
here or
call 831-426-6966. Tickets are on sale at the Santa Cruz Civic Box
Office.
This year the Cabrillo Festival concerts
can also be heard on the Internet
during the broadcast times listed below.
Cabrillo Festival on
KUSP
Friday, August 1,
7:30pm:
First
Night. Live broadcast of opening night
from the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. The award winning Festival
Orchestra is conducted by Marin Alsop in a program that includes
guest artist, Matt Haimovitz, cello, performing Scherzo Grosso
by David Sanford. Concerto for Orchestra by Christopher Rouse
was commissioned by the Festival and will have a world premiere
performance tonight. Another world premiere will be Darkness Made
Visible by Eric Lindsay. A U.S. premiere of Sinfonia by
Stephen McNeff rounds out the program. We will broadcast direct from
the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium beginning at 7:30pm. The concert is
at 8:00. Music Director Marin Alsop often chats with KUSP during
intermission.
First Night is our only live
broadcast of the Festival
The following concerts will be
heard on this schedule:
Saturday, August 16, 11
am: Family
concert. Marin Alsop and Carolyn Kuan
conduct the Festival Orchestra in Machine by Jennifer Higdon
and Troyjam by Michael Daugherty.
Sunday, August 17, 11am:
Riffs and
Refrains. Marin Alsop and the Festival
Orchestra present the world premiere of Sneak in a Window by
Matthew Cmiel. Riffs and Refrains by Mark Anthony Turnage
receives a U.S. premiere with Bharat Chandra, solo clarinet. Also on
the program: The Mannheim Rocket by John Corigliano and
Doctor Atomic Symphony by John Adams.
Sunday, August 24, 11
am: San
Juan Day with Music at the Mission. This
grand finale of the season presents four composers new to the
Festival. Harvest Festival by Chiayu is the world premiere of
the program. The Festival Strings perform Last Round by
Osvaldo Golijov. Also on the program: To the New World by Alla
Borzova and Variations Without a Theme by Avner Dorman. Marin
Alsop conducts the Festival Orchestra.
Thursday, August 28, 7
pm: Triple
Play. Evelyn Glennie performs Conjurer,
the new percussion concerto composed for her by John Corigliano. New
works by Dorothy Chang and Mason Bates complete the program.
In the
Works, a short program of works by young
composers chosen to have their music rehearsed and performed by the
Festival Orchestra.
Sunday, August 31, 11
am: In the
Blue Room with Matt Haimovitz,
presenting a program of contemporary solo cello music, with
electronica wizard Mason Bates providing soundscapes between
performances.
History of broadcasting the
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
by Roger Emanuels
KUSP has been airing the complete Cabrillo
Festival concerts since 1977, or maybe it was 1976, or possibly 1975,
depending on who you speak with.
We would broadcast every concert live, with
little notice given to the public, to protect ticket sales. A remote
crew lugged several microphones, cables, and a dinosaur of a mixing
board in the trunk of a car.
In those days, the golden age of community
radio, KUSP would often appear suddenly at an event with a live
broadcast, arranged in advance but with no public notice. One Friday
night it was Buckminster Fuller speaking at UCSC. John Cage did a
reading at the Cabrillo College Forum. Janos Starker played Beethoven
sonatas with Dennis Russell Davies at Holy Cross Church. In each
occasion KUSP was there with live microphones.
I had played in the cello section of the
Cabrillo Festival Orchestra in 1973 and 1975. Then in 1977 station
manager Lance Linares suggested that I announce the concerts live and
on the air. So for many years I was at most concerts with either a
microphone or a cello.
Those were exciting years, an era of
learning how to produce live broadcasts on limited equipment. As the
Cabrillo Festival produced world and regional premieres, we were able
to bring these fresh examples of our expanding culture to audiences,
and we knew this was radio at its best.
KUSP now airs the opening night concert
live from the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. The remaining concerts can
be heard soon after. I recently retired from 25 years of playing
cello in the Festival Orchestra, and now serve the Festival as
Orchestra Manager.
Visit the
Six
Cellos
of the Cabrillo Festival
Orchestra
KUSP/KBDH Broadcast
Frequencies
Main Transmitter and
Translators
- KUSP Monterey Bay Area: 88.9
- KBDH San Ardo: 91.7
- Big Sur Valley and South Coast:
105.9
- Palo Colorado Canyon: 91.3
- Los Gatos/Saratoga/Campbell (West Santa
Clara Valley): 90.3
- Hollister/San Juan Bautista/Gilroy:
89.1
- Downtown Santa Cruz: 89.3
On regional cable systems:
- Santa Cruz County: 88.7
- Monterey Peninsula: 91.3
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