OJAI MUSIC FESTIVAL INVITES YOU TO CHECK OUT THE UCSB PRIMAVERA FESTIVAL

University of California, Santa Barbara College of Letters and Science, Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, College of Creative Studies, CREATE - Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology, Department of Music, Department of Theatre and Dance, and MAT- Media Arts and Technology Program present:

PRIMAVERA
2009 UCSB Festival of Contemporary Arts and
Digital Media "IN THE SPIRIT OF HENRY B."
MONDAY, APRIL 20 - FRIDAY, APRIL 24

This annual festival of contemporary arts and digital media honors the lately departed giant of new music, HENRY BRANT, and is dedicated to his memory.

UCSB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA in The Unanswered Question
with the UCSB JAZZ ENSEMBLE and UCSB PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
MON., APRIL 20, 8 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall,
$15/gen, $7/stu, tickets at the door
RICHARD RINTOUL leads a program exploring The Unanswered Question with the Charles Ives composition, computer transformations thereof, and premieres of new works from UCSB student composers Justin Aftab, Justin Bell and Katherine Saxon. This program is interactively shared with the UCSB Jazz and Percussion Ensembles directed by JON NATHAN.

MUSIC FOR SPACES
TUES., APRIL 21, 8:30 p.m., UCSB Music Bowl, Free Admission
April 21 is the night for RON SEDGWICK'S multimodal musical experiment, Music for Spaces, which honors Henry Brant's spatial music tradition. Visit the Primavera web site to pre-download the music to your cellphone, or your laptop. Then, pick a spot on the night and park there...armed with Sedgwick's pliable music, which you can access anywhere! On cue, be ready to slowly converge on the Great Tree in the UCSB Music Bowl's courtyard, where the ritual will seek final culmination.

UCSB ECM - Ensemble for Contemporary Music
WED., APRIL 22, 8 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall,
$15/gen, $7/stu, tickets at the door
JEREMY HALADYNA directs a program entitled, Redolent of Seasons and of Hours. Here Henry Brant's own A Requiem in Summer is presented in tribute, in the chamber version for eight players. And there are other colorful works on themes reflecting the seasons or times of day, including Thea Musgrave's Primavera and James MacMillan's Three Dawn Rituals. Music of Isang Yun, Pietro Dossena, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and visiting composition faculty Linda Holland rounds out the program; the last selection is played by (and was written for) UCSB faculty flutist Jill Felber.

UCSB CREATE
THURS., APRIL 23, 8 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall,
$15/gen, $7/stu, tickets at the door
UCSB's electroacoustic research lab presents another in its series of concerts with a cult-following: CREATE. The concert will feature visiting composer David Wessel of UC Berkeley; there will also be a premiere of a new work by Curtis Roads, as well as by several of his top students.

UCSB MAT - Media Arts and Technology Program
presents a MEDIA GARDEN
Friday, April 24, 7 p.m., Music Room 1145, Free Admission
SALMAN BAKHT is the brilliant force behind Media Garden, a media art exhibition and performance planned out as site architecture. Regale to installations, live computer music, and audiovisual works. Contributors of new art include Justin Hoffman, Pehr Hovey, Andrès Burbano, Aaron McLeran, Salman Bakht, Anil Camci, as well as forceful output from instructor Matt Wright and his Rhythm Seminar.