Cabrillo Festival broadcast 9/4

Cabrillo Festival Broadcast of their recent concert, “Moonlight” on KALW, 91.7 FM. Free.

Due to Covid concerns within the orchestra, programming for the closing weekend of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music shifted. Details are below:

Andrea Reinkemeyer: #@&%!* (expletive deleted)
Valentin Silvestrov: Silent Music
Kevin Puts: Second Oboe Concerto: Moonlight (Katherine Needleman, oboe) (WCP)
Christopher Rouse: Ogoun Badagris
Richard Danielpour: Apparitions

This evening’s program features composer Kevin Puts’ Moonlight, a concerto for oboe and string orchestra inspired by the film and its themes of resilience and compassion. Moonlight features the virtuosic oboe soloist Katherine Needleman, for whom the work was written. Richard Danielpour’s Apparitions for string orchestra and percussion is a collection of pieces inspired by fantasies, dreams, and stories of the supernatural. Valentin Silvestrov’s Silent Music for string orchestra is a beautiful work by Ukraine’s most famous living composer, who recently fled the war in Ukraine. The Festival’s superstar percussionists take centerstage in Christopher Rouse’s exhilarating Ogoun Badagris, a work deriving its inspiration from Haitian drumming pattern; and in Andrea Reinkemeyer’s percussion quartet entitled #@&%!* (expletive deleted).