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What Six Blackbirds Hatched
Over the years, this valley of olive trees and art galleries
some 90 miles northwest of Los Angeles has played host to
such distinguished visitors as Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland
and Pierre Boulez, with many other prodigiously talented,
if less famous, musicians among the mix. And all of them --
since the mid-1950s, anyway -- have performed in a small,
municipal-park band shell grandly named the Libbey Bowl, the
primary venue of the Ojai Music Festival, which celebrated
its 63rd iteration earlier this month.
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Oh, the Highs of Ojai
Although we never really know where music is headed, sometimes
we think we do. This is one of those times. The Chicago-based
new music sextet eighth blackbird took over this year’s
Ojai Music Festival in Libbey Bowl for four days and packed
it full with more and more varied music (and music theater)
than ever before in the quirky, famous festival’s 63-year
history.
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eighth blackbird and other new music at Ojai Music Festival
Although we never really know where music is headed, sometimes
we think we do. This is one of those times. The Chicago-based
new music sextet eighth blackbird took over this year’s
Ojai Music Festival in Libbey Bowl for four days and packed
it full with more and more varied music (and music theater)
than ever before in the quirky, famous festival’s 63-year
history.
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Ojai
2009: The Kids Are All Right
For 63 years, the Ojai Music Festival has been a West Coast
beacon of new music. Its system of changing music directors
-- Stravinsky one year, Copland another, Boulez, Adams and,
this year’s genre-busting choice, eighth blackbird [sic]
– continues to provide a kind of built-in guarantee of
self-renewal, from season to season. Read
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Ojai
Music Festival's 'Slide' has both wit and complexity
Shifting in and out of focus like the photographic images
at its core, Steve Mackey and Rinde Eckert’s “Slide”
held the Ojai Music Festival audience’s attention for
more than an hour Friday night. The world premiere of the
rocking and ruminative concoction, co-commissioned by the
festival, brought to the stage eighth blackbird, the new music
ensemble serving as the festival’s music director this
year, along with Mackey and his electric guitar and librettist
Eckert as actor and singer.
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Shock,
shake of the new: The weekend's 63rd annual Ojai
Music Festival offering made for a fresh fest
As the last clanging of Dutch composer Louis Andriessen's
"Workers Union" rang out Sunday night at Ojai's
Libby Bowl -- the climax of a five-hour marathon finale to
this year's 63rd annual Ojai Music Festival -- a certain dualistic
impression settled over the dedicated festgoer. This year's
four-day festival, organized by heroic contemporary chamber
ensemble eighth blackbird, was somehow perfectly fresh and
in keeping with the fest's celebrated history. Brazen youth
and respectful tradition got along, and famously. Read
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