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FREE BEYOND THE BOWL EVENT: Afternoon ragas at the Ojai Downtown Arcade courtyard, 4 to 5 pm.
Enjoy master musician Aashish Khan and friends as they perform classical ragas.

NEW! FESTIVAL SYMPOSIUM
Matilija Auditorium
Part I: The 21st Century Musician

ARA GUZELIMIAN, symposium director

Members of ENSEMBLE MODERN
GEORGE BENJAMIN, conductor
HILARY SUMMERS, mezzo soprano
HERMANN KRETZSCHMER, piano

Saed Haddad: Le Contredésir

Steve Potter: Paradigms (U.S. PREMIERE)

I. The Blossoming of the Brain Trees

II. 3-Part Invention

III. More Than

Elliott Carter: Oboe Quartet for oboe and string trio

Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op.16
(chamber version arranged by Schoenberg)

Strauss / Schoenberg: Emperor Waltzes

FESTIVAL SYMPOSIUM
Matilija Auditorium
Part II: Conversation with George Benjamin
Part III: The World of Zappa

Ara Guzelimian

ARA GUZELIMIAN, symposium director
GAIL ZAPPA
IAN UNDERWOOD
STEVE VAI
TODD YVEGA
DIETMAR WIESNER

ENSEMBLE MODERN
BRAD LUBMAN, conductor

Frank Zappa: Music from Greggery Peccary &

Other Persuasions:

What will Rumi do

Frank Zappa: Works from The Yellow Shark:

Dog Breath Variations/Uncle Meat
Outrage at Valdez

The Girl in the Magnesium Dress

Ruth is Sleeping
Get Whitey
Welcome to the United States
G-Spot Tornado

----------------------- INTERMISSION -----------------------

Edgard Varése: Density 21.5

Edgard Varése: Octandre

Frank Zappa: Music from Greggery Peccary &

Other Persuasions:

Night School

Revised Music for Low Budget Orchestra
The Beltway Bandits
A Pig with Wings
Moggio
Put a Motor in Yourself

ERIC HUEBNER, piano

Olivier Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus

(performance will be played without intermission)

ENSEMBLE MODERN
GEORGE BENJAMIN, conductor
ANU KOMSI, soprano
HILARY SUMMERS, contralto

Igor Stravinsky: L’Histoire du Soldat Suite

George Benjamin: Into the Little Hill
(WEST COAST PREMIERE)

WILDCAT VIOLS, viols
AASHISH KHAN, sarode
JAVAD ALI BUTAH, tabla
JOHN STEPHENS, tanpura

Purcell: Fantasias for three and four viols

North Indian Classical Morning Ragas

ENSEMBLE MODERN
GEORGE BENJAMIN, conductor
ANU KOMSI, soprano
UELI WIGET, piano
DIETMAR WIESNER, flute
MEGUMI KASAKAWA, viola
PATRICK JÜEDT, viola

Pierre Boulez: Memoriale

George Benjamin: Viola, Viola

Oliver Knussen: Songs for Sue

George Benjamin: At First Light

Ligeti: Chamber Concerto

Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques

FREE BEYOND THE BOWL EVENT: Afternoon ragas at the Ojai Downtown Arcade courtyard, 4 to 5 pm.
Enjoy master musician Aashish Khan and friends as they perform classical ragas.

FREE CONCERT INSIGHTS with Christopher Hailey and invited artists one hour before the start of each concert, at the Libbey Tennis Courts. Learn more about the composers and pieces that you will enjoy during the performances.

Programs and artists are subject to change. Main concerts are held at Libbey Bowl.
As of February 4, 2010.

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