June 6-9, 2019
Thomas W. Morris, Artistic Director
Barbara Hannigan, 2019 Music Director
Thursday, June 6
1:00-4:30pm Ojai Presbyterian Church
OJAI TALKS
Led by Ojai Talks Director Ara Guzelimian, these three insightful sessions explore various facets of music-making and ideas featuring Barbara Hannigan and members of EQ, an interview with Thomas W. Morris on his Ojai years, and with members of LUDWIG on their distinctive vision.
5:30-6:00pm Libbey Park Gazebo
FREE COMMUNITY CONCERT
JOHN LUTHER ADAMS/ The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies Part I
Steven Schick, percussion
7:30-10:30pm Libbey Bowl
STRAVINSKY/ The Rake’s Progress (fully-staged)
Equilibrium Artists: Aphrodite Patoulidou, soprano; Yannis Francois, bass; Elgan Llyr Thomas, tenor; Fleur Barron, mezzo-soprano; Antoin Herrera-Lopez Kessel, bass; James Way, tenor
LUDWIG
Los Robles Master Chorale
Edo Frenkel, harpsichord
Linus Fellbom, director
Barbara Hannigan, conductor
Friday, June 7
8:00-9:00am Ojai Art Center
Donor Concert
CLARA IANOTTA/ dead wasps in the jam-jar (iii) US Premiere
TYSHAWN SOREY/ Everything Changes, Nothing Changes West Coast Premiere
JACK Quartet
11:00am-1:00pm Libbey Bowl
Part I 11:00-11:45am
JOHN ZORN/ The Alchemist
JOHN ZORN/ Hexentarot
JOHN ZORN/ Ghosts
JOHN ZORN/ The Aristos
JACK Quartet
Stephen Gosling, piano
Part II 12:15-1:00pm
JOHN ZORN/ Ouroboros
JOHN ZORN/ The Unseen
JOHN ZORN/ Necronomicon
JACK QUARTET
Jay Campbell, cello
Alexa Ciciretti, cello
2:00- 3:00pm Ojai Presbyterian Church
OJAI FILM
Zorn II (2016-2018) a film by Mathieu Amalric
5:30-6:00pm Libbey Park Gazebo
FREE COMMUNITY CONCERT
JOHN LUTHER ADAMS/ The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies Part II
Steven Schick, percussion
7:30-10:00pm Libbey Bowl
Part I 7:30-8:30pmDEBUSSY/ Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut (from Images Book 1)
RAVEL/ Une barque sur l’ocean (from Miroirs)
MESSIAEN/ Un reflet dans le vent (from Preludes)
SCHOENBERG/ String Quartet No. 2
Stephen Gosling, piano
Barbara Hannigan, soprano
JACK Quartet
Part II 9:00 – 10:00pm
DEBUSSY/ Syrinx
SCHOENBERG/ Verklärte Nacht
VIVIER/ Lonely Child
Aphrodite Patoulidou, soprano
LUDWIG
Barbara Hannigan, conductor
10:15-11:30pm Ojai Art Center
DANCING UNDER THE STARS
A late night of ballroom dancing with LUDWIG Ballroom Band and Bill Elliott, master of ceremonies
(donor event)
Saturday, June 8
8:00-9:00am Zalk Theatre
JAMES DILLON/ La Coupure
Steven Schick, percussion
Ross Karre, William Brent, video and sound design
11:00am-1pm Libbey Bowl
Part I 11:00-11:30am
Tribute to Oliver Knussen with music by Oliver Knussen
KNUSSEN/ Masks for flute with wind chimes
KNUSSEN/ Autumnal for violin and piano
KNUSSEN/ Sonja’s Lullaby
KNUSSEN/ Cantata
KNUSSEN/ Eccentric Melody for cello
KNUSSEN/ Ophelia’s Last Dance
KNUSSEN/ Study for Metamorphosis for solo bassoon
LUDWIG
Stephen Gosling, piano
Jay Campbell, cello
Part II 12:00-1:00pm
RACHMANINOFF/ The Isle of the Dead (arranged by Thomas Beijer)
MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE/ Twice Through the Heart
Kate Howden, mezzo-soprano
LUDWIG
Edo Frenkel, conductor
2:00- 3:30pm Ojai Presbyterian Church
OJAI FILM
Music is Music – a film by Mathieu Amalric
C’est presque au bout du monde – a film by Mathieu Amalric
Taking Risks - a documentary film by Accentus Music about Barbara Hannigan’s Equilibrium mentoring initiative US Premiere
5:30-6:00pm Libbey Park Gazebo
FREE COMMUNITY CONCERT
JOHN LUTHER ADAMS/ The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies Part III
Steven Schick, percussion
7:30-10:15pm Libbey Bowl
Part I 7:30-8:00pm
JOHN ZORN/ Jumalattaret
Barbara Hannigan, soprano
Stephen Gosling, piano
Part II 8:15-9:00pm Stephen Gosling, piano
RITES OF PASSAGE: Folk songs from around the world
Equilibrium Artists
Edo Frenkel, piano
Part II 9:30-10:15pm
GRISEY/ Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil (Four Songs Crossing the Threshold)
Barbara Hannigan, soprano
LUDWIG
Steven Schick, conductor
Sunday, June 9
8:00-9:00am Zalk Theatre
CATHERINE LAMB/ String Quartet US Premiere
JACK Quartet
11:00am-1:15pm Libbey Bowl
Part I 11:00-11:45am
WALTON/ Façade: An Entertainment
LUDWIG
Barbara Hannigan, speaker
Part II 12:15-1:15pm
TERRY RILEY/ In C
Festival artists
4:30-6:30pm Libbey Bowl
STRAVINSKY/ Pulcinella (complete)
HAYDN/ Symphony No. 49 “La Passione”
GERSHWIN/ Girl Crazy Suite (arranged by Bill Elliott)
Kate Howden, mezzo-soprano
James Way, tenor
Antoin Herrera-Lopez Kessel, bass
LUDWIG
Barbara Hannigan, conductor and soprano
5 comments:
That is an awesome program, worthy of dispensing with the jujitsu camp in NoCal, although they do bring up about half the Ojai programs to UC Berkeley the next week, so that's what I'm probably going to attend.
Ojai at Berkeley is done. Last year was....the last year.
NOOOO! It was some of their best programming.
I wish it were otherwise, but I don't think that these programs were very well attended, especially when they were doing late-night concerts. I think I went to ONE season, the one that Leif-Ove Andsnes curated. He and Marc-Andre Hamelin did a concert at 9:30 p.m. of the two-piano version of Rite of Spring that was amazing.
I went to a lot of the concerts, and most of them were great. But you're right, they weren't all that well-attended, partly because school is out for the summer and the campus felt empty.
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