I should have gotten this out last month, when the Ojai Music Festival was live, but I did not - oh, well! The streams are still available. As usually, the programs are fabulous, and I wish Ojai were in almost any month but June, which is always packed in the SF area.
The streams are all free! Here's the list of available concerts and repertory that Ojai circulated some time ago, but note that there might have been updates.
Thursday, June 8
8:00pm | LIQUID BORDERS
Libbey Bowl
Rhiannon Giddens vocals | Kayhan Kalhor kamancheh | Attacca Quartet | Steven Schick percussion/director| red fish blue fish percussion
Gabriela ORTIZ Liquid Borders
Franz Joseph HAYDN String Quartet in F major, Op. 77 No. 2 Hob. III:82
Zakir HUSSAIN Pallavi (arr. Reena Esmail)
Philip GLASS First Movement from String Quartet No. 3 (“Mishima”)
Colin JACOBSEN Beloved do not let me be discouraged
Geeshie WILEY Last Kind Words
Rhiannon GIDDENS Lullaby
David CROSBY/Nathan SCHRAM Where We Are Not (arr. Nathan Schram)
Caroline SHAW Stem and Root from The Evergreen
John ADAMS Judah to Ocean, Rag the Bone from John’s Book of Alleged Dances
SQUAREPUSHER Xetaka 1
Friday, June 9
10:00am | VIS-À-VIS
Libbey Bowl
Gloria Cheng piano | Emi Ferguson flute | Mario Gotoh viola | Leonard Hayes piano | Karen Ouzounian cello Joshua Rubin clarinet | Steven Schick percussion | Michi Wiancko violin | Wu Man pipa
Shawn OKPEBHOLO mi sueño: afro-flamenco
Tyson Gholston DAVIS American Tableau (Tableau XI)
Margaret BONDS Troubled Water (Wade in the Water)
Michael ABELS Iconoclasm
Jessie MONTGOMERY Rhapsody No. 2
Nasim KHORASSANI Growth
Nina BARZEGAR Inexorable Passage
Lei LIANG vis-à-vis
8:00pm | AN EVENING WITH RHIANNON GIDDENS AND FRANCESCO TURRISI
Libbey Bowl
An intimate concert with Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi with music ranging from the Baroque to Appalachian ballads and traditional Black American songs.
Saturday, June 10
10:00am | THE WILLOWS ARE NEW
Libbey Bowl
Gloria Cheng piano | Kayhan Kalhor kamancheh | Karen Ouzounian cello | Nathan Schram viola | Wu Man pipa
Niloufar NOURBAKHSH Veiled
Lei LIANG Mother’s Songs
GE Gan-Ru Gong (from Gu Yue)
CHOU Wen-Chung The Willows are New
Kayhan KALHOR Solo Improvisation
8:00pm | OMAR’S JOURNEY
Libbey Bowl
Limmie Pulliam tenor (Omar) | Rhiannon Giddens soprano (Julie) | Cheryse McLeod Lewis mezzo-soprano (Fatima) | Michael Preacely bass-baritone (Abdul/Abe) | Andy Papas bass-baritone (Owen/Johnson)
Emi Ferguson flute | Joshua Rubin clarinet | Mazz Swift, Michi Wiancko violins | Mario Gotoh viola
Karen Ouzounian cello | Shawn Conley bass | Leonard Hayes piano | Ross Karre, Francesco Turrisi percussion Justin Robinson fiddle | Seckou Keita kora
Music from Senegal and the Carolinas
Music by Rhiannon GIDDENS and Michael ABELS Omar’s Journey World Premiere
Libretto by Rhiannon Giddens
An Ojai-commissioned work for voices and chamber ensemble drawn from the opera Omar, by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, framed by traditional music that traces the journey of the real-life Omar Ibn Said from Senegal to the Carolinas.
Sunday, June 11
10:00am | EARLY MUSIC
Libbey Bowl
Francesco Turrisi curator and keyboards
Attacca Quartet | Rhiannon Giddens vocals | Kayhan Kalhor kamancheh | Karen Ouzounian cello |
Wu Man pipa | Joshua Stauffer theorbo
This concert challenges the idea of late Renaissance and early Baroque music and reinterprets it as a universal language that can connect the 17th century to today through an imagined historical and geographical journey.
5:30pm | STRINGS ATTACHED
Libbey Bowl
Amy Schroeder violin | Kayhan Kalhor kamancheh | Seckou Keita kora | Rhiannon Giddens vocals/multi-instrumentalist Wu Man pipa | Francesco Turrisi multi-instrumentalist | Mazz Swift, Michi Wiancko violins | Mario Gotoh viola | Karen Ouzounian cello | Shawn Conley bass | Joshua Stauffer theorbo
A musical summit of Festival artists and a jam session featuring solos and collaborations bringing together bowed and plucked string instruments from the Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. An exuberant finale celebrating the many musical stories featured at this year’s Festival!
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