{"id":2231,"date":"2019-06-10T21:43:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T05:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2019-06-10T23:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T07:23:16","slug":"ojai-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/2019\/06\/10\/ojai-music-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Ojai Music Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year, early June in Ojai, CA, a quiet town half an hour away from Santa Barbara, the Ojai Music Festival<\/a> takes place.<\/p>The festival has a glorious history of convening the cream of the crop of new classical music<\/strong> (Stravinski, Messiaan, Boulez and Copland are among the artistic directors who brought their vision to the festival), and is a wonderful crucible for geniuses in music.<\/p>I went there for the first time in 2016<\/a>, and I was struck by the brilliance of the pieces I saw – a delightful blend of music from all around the world, mixing ICE<\/a> and the Indian vocalist\u00a0Aruna Sairam, under the tutelage of Peter Sellars. I remember being particularly impressed by Leila Adu<\/a>‘s performance (wonder what she’s up to nowadays…)<\/p>In the years since, I could just go to Berkeley’s CalPerformances to see the show (Ojai in Berkeley<\/a>),\u00a0 held a week after the main festival. I fondly recall Vijay Iyer’s take on the Rite of Spring with Radhe Radhe: Rite of Holi<\/a>, and some standout performances by Tyshawn Sorey<\/a>, a regular of the festival who never stops to amaze, though I’m more impressed by him in live settings than by the recordings I’ve heard since.<\/p>Sadly, this year the Berkeley program no longer exists, since since CalPerf’s director Mat\u00edas Tarnopolski left for Philadelphia. Therefore, I had to drive down the California 1 to see what was happening there.<\/p>And boy I wasn’t disappointed! This year’s artistic director Barbara Hannigan prepared wonderful program, going from Stravinski (again!) Berg to Steve Reich. Some of the concerts that really struck a chord were Patoulidou performance on Vivier’s Lonely Child<\/strong><\/a>, Barbara Hannigan rendition of John Zorn’s Jumalattaret<\/strong><\/a>, and Steve Schick leading Terry Riley’s in C<\/strong><\/a> (the latter can be on a viewed video of the festival here<\/a>, at 1h48.)<\/p>\n

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Ojai Music Festival 2019<\/p>\n<\/div>

Not only the artistic content was great, but there is also a sense of passing along the baton (in a way beautifully narrated in\u00a0Maria Stodtmeijer<\/span>‘s Taking Risk<\/a>) to younger artists such as Aphrodite Patoulidou<\/a> and Yanis Francois<\/a>.<\/p>Sure, I’m painting a fawning picture of the festival here, but I’m so drained of creativity that I will leave it to better voices than mine:
\nOutsiders<\/a> (2015 edition)
\nThe Sonic Fury of the Ojai Music Festival<\/a> (2018 edition)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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