The Ojai Music Festival season continues, with 6 spectacular concerts featuring ICE and Steve Schick!
Thursday, June 18th, 2015
Sila, John Luther Adams - Faculty Glade, 6pm
Concert 1: Beyond the Score Zellerbach Hall, 8pm
A Pierre Dream - Pierre Boulez: A Portrait
A Video and Musical Celebration of Pierre Boulez on the occasion of his 90th Birthday
Produced by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Stage set designed by Frank Gehry
ICE
Peabody Southwell, mezzo-soprano
Actors, child pianist
Steven Schick, conductor
Friday, June 19th, 2015
5:00pm Talk with Steven Schick, Claire Chase Hertz Hall patio
audience participation Lei Liang: Trans (for stones)
7:00pm Presenting Steven Schick Hertz Hall
Steven Schick, solo percussion
Iannis Xenakis: Rebonds _
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Zyklus
David Lang: The Anvil Chorus
Vinko Globokar: ?Corporel
Iannis Xenakis: Psappha _
INTERMISSION
Roland Auzet: La Cathédrale de Misère
Staged version of Kurt Schwitters: UrSonata (American Premiere)
Steven Schick, percussion
Roland Auzet, director
Wilfried Wendeling, sound technician
10:00pm LATE NIGHT CONCERT Concert 3 Hertz Hall
Varese: Density 21.5
Pierre Boulez: Dialogue de l’ombre Double
Clarinet, Joshua Rubin (with Miller Tuckette/CNMAT)
Wu Man – solo set
Saturday, June 20th, 2015
11:00am- 12:45pm CONCERT #4 Hertz Hall
Olivier Messiaen: Visions de l’Amen
Gloria Cheng, piano
Vicki Ray, piano
INTERMISSION
Maurice Ravel: Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé: Soupir
(2 flutes, 2 clarinets, string quartet, piano)
Pierre Boulez: Improvisation sur Mallarme I: Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd’hui
(harp, 6 percussion)
Maurice Ravel: Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarme: Placet futile
(2 flutes, 2 clarinets, string quartet, piano)
Pierre Boulez: Improvisation sur Mallarme II: Une dentelle s’abolit
(harp, piano, celeste, 4 percussion)
Maurice Ravel: Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé: Surgi de la croupe et du bond
(2 flutes, 2 clarinets, string quartet, piano)
Peabody Southwell, mezzo-soprano
ICE
red fish blue fish
Steven Schick. conductor
Pierre Boulez: Une page d’éphéméride
tba, piano
2:30 - 4:30pm CONCERT #5: Bartók Boulez I Hertz Hall
Pierre Boulez: Dérive 2 (2011 version)
ICE
Steven Schick, conductor
(English horn/clarinet/bassoon/horn/vibraphone/marimba/piano/harp/violin/viola/cello)
INTERMISSION
Béla Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
Gloria Cheng, piano
Vicki Ray, piano
Joseph Pereira, Percussion
Percussion: Steven Schick
5:00- 7:00pm Talks Community Response Panel Hertz Hall patio
8:00pm CONCERT #6 Hertz Hall
Julia Wolfe: Four Marys
Renga
Steven Schick, conductor
Lou Harrison: Concerto for Pipa
Wu Man, pipa
Renga
Steven Schick, conductor
INTERMISSION
Carlos Chavez: Toccata for Percussion
red fish blue fish
Alberto Ginastera: Cantata para America Magica
Percussion (13 percussion – 9 rfbf, 2 ICE, Pereira, Nissly)
Gloria Cheng and Vicki Ray, pianos
ICE player, celeste
Peabody Southwell, mezzo-soprano
Steven Schick, conductor