Summer music festival week at KUSP

August 19 - 27, 2007

KUSP celebrates the Summer Festival Season with a special week of broadcasts of the Cabrillo Music Festival and the Carmel Bach Festival. Many concerts can be heard weekdays at 7:00 pm and Sundays at 11:00 am.

Major music festivals are an annual treat in the Monterey Bay area. KUSP offers exclusive coverage of the Carmal Bach Festival, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, and the Monterey Jazz Festival.

Michael Daugherty playing bongos in America's heartland

Sunday, August 19, 11 am, Cabrillo Festival "Raise the Roof." Marin Alsop and the Festival Orchestra perform three west coast premieres. Michael Daugherty's Raise the Roof features Steve Hearn, timpani, and is followed by the same composer's Ghost Ranch; The concert concludes with John Corigliano's Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan, with soprano Amy Burton. Also on the program: "In the Works," performances of music by composers participating in the student composer project.

Monday, August 20, 7 pm, Bach Festival, The Bach Family. Concertmaster Elizabeth Wallfisch presents a dazzling program of concertos for violin and natural horn, wth a lament for alto voice sung by Sally-Anne Russell.

Tuesday, August 21, 7 pm, Bach Festival, Aha! Bach. Maestro Bruno Weil and David Gordon have a conversation about the majesty and genius of J.S. Bach, illustrated with music from the Festival Orchestra, Chorale and soloists.

Wednesday, August 22, 7 pm, Bach Festival, The Mission Concert, "Tenebrae Responsories." The Festival Chorale presents a program directed by Andrew Megill in a large a cappella work by Gesualdo.

Thursday, August 23, 7 pm, Cabrillo Festival "Behind the Notes" and Birthday Encore Recital. An evening with Marin Alsop and composers/performers including violinist Mark O'Connor, pianist Kevin Puts, flutist Dave Heath, jazz pianist Michael Daugherty and electronica star Mason Bates.

Saturday, August 25, 11 am, Cabrillo Festival Family concert, "Pyramus and Thisbe." The Festival Orchestra performs James MacMillan's Stomp and Daniel Kellogg's Pyramus and Thisbe, with Joseph Ribeiro, narrator/actor.

Sunday, August 26, 11 am, Cabrillo Festival San Juan Day with "Music at the Mission." This grand finale of the season presents two world premieres and one west coast premiere. Kenneth Fuchs, United Artists; Aaron Jay Kernis, Valentines with Susan Narucki, soprano; and Kevin Puts, Symphony No. 4. The Festival Orchestra is conducted by Marin Alsop.

Monday, August 27, 7 pm, Cabrillo Festival "Concentric Paths," with Marin Alsop and the Festival Orchestra performing Mason Bates, Rusty Air in Carolina; Thomas Adès, Concentric Paths; and Philip Glass, Symphony No. 8.


 

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The Cabrillo Festival cello section with conductor Marin Alsop,
paddling downriver in Kevin Puts' "River's Rush"

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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: TCI Cable @ 88.7 Mhz
  • Monterey Peninsula: TCI Cable @ 91.3 Mhz

Updated July 26, 2007 by Roger Emanuels

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