“Our hearts are full of joy, anticipation, and optimism to return to making incredible music together again in Santa Cruz, and to finally reuniting with Festival audiences.” —Cristi Măcelaru, Music Director/ Conductor
Updated Open Rehearsal Schedule
Thursday, August 4
2:30pm-5:00pm
Shchedrin— Carmen Suite
Heggie— INTONATIONS: Songs from the Violins of Hope
7:00pm-9:30pm
Danielpour— Apparitions
Puts— Moonlight
Reinkemeyer— #@&%!* (expletive deleted)
Rouse— Ogoun Badagris
Friday, August 5
2:30pm- 5:00pm
Puts— Moonlight
Silvestrov— Silent Music
Danielpour— Apparitions
Rouse— Ogoun Badagris
7:00pm- 9:30pm
Heggie— INTONATIONS: Songs from the Violins of Hope
Shchedrin— Carmen Suite
WELCOME BACK TO LIVE!
WEEK TWO— PIVOT! PROGRAM CHANGES ANNOUNCED: Due to Covid concerns within the orchestra, programming for the closing weekend of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music has shifted. Details are below:
Saturday, August 6, 7pm, Moonlight
Andrea Reinkemeyer: #@&%!* (expletive deleted)
Valentin Silvestrov: Silent Music
Kevin Puts: Moonlight: Second Conerto for Oboe & Strings (Katherine Needleman, oboe)
Christopher Rouse: Ogoun Badagris
Richard Danielpour: Apparitions
This evening’s program features composer Kevin Puts’ Moonlight, a concerto for oboe and string orchestra inspired by the film and its themes of resilience and compassion. Moonlight features the virtuosic oboe soloist Katherine Needleman, for whom the work is written. Richard Danielpour’s Apparitions for string orchestra and percussion is a collection of pieces inspired by fantasies, dream, and stories of the supernatural. Valentin Silvestrov’s Silent Music for string orchestra is a beautiful work by Ukraine’s most famous living composer, who recently fled the war in Ukraine. The Festival’s superstar percussionists take centerstage in Christopher Rouse’s exhilarating Ogoun Badagris, a work deriving its inspiration from Haitian drumming pattern; and Andrea Reinkemeyer’s percussion quartet entitled #@&%!* (expletive deleted).
Sunday, August 7, 7pm, Violins of Hope
Jake Heggie: INTONATIONS: Songs from the Violins of Hope
Text by Gene Scheer
(Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano; Benjamin Beilman, violin; Thais Chernyavsky, youth violin)
Rodion Shchedrin: Carmen Suite
The 2022 Festival comes to a moving close with Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s INTONATIONS: Songs from the Violins of Hope, arranged for string orchestra and percussion. This work features brilliant mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and riveting violinist Benjamin Beilman, and commemorates the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the remarkable dedication of Israeli violin restorers Amnon and Avshalom Weinstein to restore Holocaust era instruments. The program concludes with Rodion Shchedrin’s popular Carmen Suite for string orchestra.
The Festival will follow Covid-19 public health and safety guidelines, including requiring proof of full vaccination for all audiences, staff, and artists. Masking will be required indoors at all times. Read our full Covid Policy here.