“As its name suggests, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music is all about new and recent works,” writes Georgia Rowe in Tuesday’s (8/7) Mercury News (San Jose, CA). “But the highlight of this weekend’s closing performances may be a piece that dates back 50 years. The Aug. 11 concert, titled ‘Notes from a Journey,’ features the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra by John Corigliano, the 80-year-old Grammy-, Oscar-, and Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer best known for his symphonies, chamber works, and the opera The Ghosts of Versailles. Conducted by Cabrillo music director Cristian Macelaru, the concerto is being presented as a tribute to Corigliano; the soloist is English pianist Philip Edward Fisher … The program also includes the U.S. premiere of Liguria, a 10-minute tone poem composed by Sweden’s Andrea Tarrodi,” as well as the West Coast premiere of Sean Shepherd’s Melt, co-commissioned by Cabrillo and the Grand Teton Music Festival; Abstractions by Anna Clyne; and the world premiere of Hypercolor by Korean-American composer Peter Shin, commissioned by the Cabrillo Festival. Concerts are performed by the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra. The 2018 festival concludes on August 12 with works by Pierre Jalbert, Nico Muhly, Missy Mazzoli, and Michael Gandolfi.
Posted August 9, 2018
