Music at the Mission: Harvest

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

Sunday, August 12, 4pm & 7pm

Mission San Juan Bautista

Michael Ippolito: Nocturne [West Coast Premiere]

John Mackey: Harvest: Concerto for Trombone (Joseph Alessi, trombone)

Behzad Ranjbaran: Seven Passages

Thomas Adès: Polaris

 

The 50th anniversary season of the Cabrillo Festival culminates with two Grand Finale performances in the magnificent sanctuary of Mission San Juan Bautista. The Festival Orchestra presents Michael Ippolito’s Nocturne, a work inspired by Joan Miró’s 1940 painting by the same name. Next is composer John Mackey’s Harvest, a work dedicated to and featuring principal trombone of the New York Philharmonic, Joseph Alessi. Harvest is based on the myths and mystery rituals of the Greek god Dionysus, and Classical Review described it as “a cycloramic feast of shifting moods and instrumental hues.” Behzad Ranjbaran writes music that is lushly tonal and draws on the music and culture of his native Iran. Ranjbaran’s Seven Passages takes its inspiration from an episode in the Shahnameh, Iran’s national epic. The concert closes with British composer Thomas Adès’ Polaris. The piece is named for the North Star or Pole Star, around which the other stars appear to rotate as if it were itself a magnetic pole. Of this work, Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, “there’s a rapturous sheen to the score that makes it impossible to resist.” Irresistible, too, is this Grand Finale performance of the Cabrillo Festival’s historic 50th anniversary season!
In the San Juan Day tradition, audience members are invited to enjoy between-concert picnicking in the Olive Grove adjoining the Mission, and a post-concert reception at Jardines de San Juan Restaurant following the evening performance.
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