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      • Thank you for sharing four days of music with us!
        06/14/10
        It's hard to believe that four days have come and gone so quickly. We enjoyed seeing returning Festival friends and meeting new enthusiasts. It was great to even pair some of our alumni patrons with Festival first-timers who gave them great tips on Ojai and shared their own favorite memories. W

      • About Working with the Ensemble Modern
        06/09/10
        After Ensemble Modern's arrival to LAX last night, Ojai rehearsals began at 10am this morning and are now in full swing. Ensemble Modern has their own set of assistants, who, together with our crew, execute stage changes efficiently and so far, without siginificant hitches. Today's rehears

      • Learning from a Sarode Master
        06/08/10
        When I was in high school my father took me to a screening of Monterey Pop, the well-known documentary film about the 1967 Monterey Pop Music Festival. Despite historic performances by the Who, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix (in which he famously smashed and burned his guitar on stage), what made th

      • What's special about the Ojai experience?
        06/08/10
        From this week's Los Angeles Times Magazine:

        “You’re in this small town. You’ve just heard a concert. You go into a coffee shop, where you see audience members, or even the artists, and overhear people debating what was just performed...Music should provoke a reaction. It’s perfectl

      • Ojai's Unique Music Director Structure
        06/07/10
        Unlike other music festivals, every year Ojai has a new music director. Why? Tom Morris explains:

      • That Ojai DNA - You know it when you hear it
        06/05/10
        Of course fans of Ojai know that contemporary music is an aphrodesiac. But the conventional wisdom in the orchestra world is that modern music is a box-office killer. But maybe that's just because orchestras were just a little late figuring out how to do it.

        Over at the Atlanta Symp

      • Try before you come
        06/05/10
        Curious about the music and performers featured at Ojai this summer? Naxos has recorded some of it/them, and the enterprising recording label is currently featuring recordings by Messaien, Schoenberg and Varese on its blog. More about them here.

      • Julie Jeffrey on Coming to Ojai with the Wildcat Viols
        06/02/10
        When Tom Morris called me to invite Wildcat Viols to play Purcell Fantasias at Ojai, I thought it was one of those random strokes of fantastic good luck that we all dream of. As performers firmly ensconced in the early music world, we usually operate in a variety of big-fish-in-a-little-pond situat

      • George Benjamin's Ojai Career
        06/02/10
        What exactly defines an Ojai Music Festival experience? What ties together the music and people featured at Ojai? It's lineage, says Tom Morris. This might be the first year composer George Benjamin is the festival's music director, but he has ties to it that go back through his entire car

      • The Ghosts of Greatness Perched on your Shoulder
        06/02/10
        The Ojai Music Festival has a long history of distinguished musicians participating. It's a veritable Who's Who in American contemporary music over the years. So how to approach the task of programming the latest edition? Artistic director Tom Morris talks about what it takes:

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