OjaiU Launched in May with Great Success

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The Ojai Music Festival was pleased to share that OjaiU, a free three-week online course centered on the 2013 Festival, launched on Wednesday, May 15 with more than 200 registrants and almost 5,000 views since the last week.

These courses were designed to help audiences “listen smarter” and enabled them to gain deeper insight into music. Far from being simply “program notes,” OjaiU is built around the ideas that animate the thinking behind a Festival like Ojai, featuring observations by performers, critics and experts.

Check out the three classes:
Class # 1: Ideas and the Power of Music
Class # 2: Music in its Place
Class #3: Music and Dance

Watch the introduction video below:

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The OjaiU courses are led by Douglas McLennan, editor and founder of ArtsJournal.com and feature guest instructors including Festival Artistic Director Thomas W. Morris and 2013 Music Director Mark Morris. Other instructors are composer John Luther Adams, pianist Jeremy Denk, provost and dean of The Juilliard School Ara Guzelimian, music and dance critic John Rockwell, filmmaker Eva Soltes, and Los Angeles Times classical music critic Mark Swed.

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  • Ideas and the Power of Music: Great art says something about the culture around it. Just how that happens is easy to see in visual art or theatre or dance. But music is largely an abstract art form. So how does music engage ideas? Does music have important things to say about our contemporary culture?
  • Music in its Place: Music is an evocative art. A few bars can set you in the Old West, a busy city or a faraway country. Music can also express identity. But how? Certainly by quoting cultural references we all know. But the relationships between composers, their music, and the places they want to evoke can be much more complicated. The music of composers such as John Cage, Lou Harrison, Charles Ives and John Luther Adams not only works to evoke place and identity, but also to interact and adapt to the places, context and circumstances in which the music is being performed and heard.
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Visit the OjaiU website here >>

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