On Thursday, Jan 15, we achieved a major benchmark for the Rebuild Libbey Bowl project. The background on the project and a proposed concept design was presented to an unprecedented meeting of all four of the City of Ojai’s commissions (Planning, Parks & Recreation, Historic, and Arts), as well as the City Council. Upon the conclusion of the presentation, the 30 attending commissioners and City Council members, as well as the 40+ audience members, erupted in applause and proceeded to congratulate the architect, David Bury, on a doing such a great job of balancing the importance of preserving the feel of the current Bowl with the need to improve its functionality for the future. You can take a look at the designs at www.LibbeyBowl.org.
The next step will require a lot of work to turn the concept into a reality with final design, more feedback, and a more escalated fundraising effort. To ensure that this project can actually move forward this summer (with demolition beginning in August 2009 and completion by June 1, 2010), we need to secure the last $1 million from the community in gifts and pledges in the next 3-6 months to ensure that we have sufficient funds to proceed.
Check back here for more information. To make a donation, please call (805) 646 2094.
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( 3 / 955 )Recently, Pitchfork TV added this video of an interview at the South By Southwest Festival in Austin TX or Steve Reich. The video features So Percussion and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore. Learn more about your Festival favorites here!
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( 3 / 1006 )Ojai Festival favorite Gloria Cheng has been nominated for a Grammy for her album, Piano Music Of Salonen, Stucky, And Lutoslawski. The Festival wishes her good luck. We'll be watching anxioiusly for the results!
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( 2.9 / 956 )Taken from an on-line news source:
"You Tube announces a new marketing project by Google to bolster the organized presence of classical music on YouTube and promote the idea of online communities. The project, called the YouTube Symphony Orchestra (www.youtube.com/symphony), was announced on Monday in London and New York. Boiled down, it has two essential parts. The composer Tan Dun has written a four-minute piece for orchestra. YouTube users are invited to download the individual parts for their instruments from the score, record themselves performing the music, then upload their renditions. After the entrants are judged, a mash-up of all the winning parts will be created for a final YouTube version of the piece. In the project’s other prong, musicians will upload auditions from a prescribed list—for trumpeters, for example, an excerpt from the Haydn Concerto—for judging by a jury that Google says will include musicians from major orchestras like the Berlin Philharmonic and the London Symphony. Entrants have until Jan. 28 to upload their videos. The panel picks a short list of finalists, and YouTube users, ‘American Idol’-style, choose the winners, who are flown to Carnegie Hall in April for a concert conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, the music director of the San Francisco Symphony.”
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