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      • Ben Maas Takes You Behind the Scenes
        05/28/10
        This year’s Ojai Festival has presented a number of challenges that are different from previous festivals. To better understand this year’s Festival, I should probably back up and explain exactly what the job of the sound designer involves.

        The sound designer’s job breaks down into two

      • Donors Remember Past Artists
        05/26/10
        In the new Libbey Bowl, on the comfortable new chairs, patrons and supporters have an opportunity to donate money to name their own seat. More than simply naming a seat for themselves, however, donors are invited to commemorate the Music Director whose work inspired them most. To date, Festival a

      • Going to the Birds
        05/25/10
        Olivier Messaien was obsessed with birds and the songs they sang. He spent much of his career exploring their songs and trying to replicate the sounds in his compositions. So what does that sound like? Here's a priceless video in which he demonstrates (and that's his wife at the piano).
      • Remembering the Muse
        05/20/10
        Vingt Regards is by far the largest scale work in the piano repertoire. Yvonne Loriod’s place in musical history would have been assured by the simple fact that she gave the work’s premiere – in liberated Paris – in March 1945. But she had also directly inspired the work: the already celebrated (tho

      • The Right Notes
        05/03/10
        Writing notes for the Ojai Festival brings new challenges each year because making connections between works and composers, and teasing themes across several days of concerts inevitably involves trying to “suss out” (as they say in Britain) the logic behind the programming choices of the festival’s

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