Bid on one of our amazing auction items at the “To Ojai with Love” Gala & Concert to support the Festival!

Saturday, February 11, 2012
Ojai Valley Inn & Spa

If you can’t attend the Gala but are interested in one of these auction items, place a proxy bid in advance and we’ll bid for you! Contact Anna Wagner at 805 646 2094 ext 105 or email [email protected].

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LA PHIL WITH GUSTAVO DUDAMEL

Step into your suite at the luxurious Omni Los Angeles Hotel and relax into a wonderful weekend of exquisite music and fabulous food.  Your LA getaway will bring stars to your eyes as you glide up to your seats in the phenomenal Disney Hall for a performance by music director Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2012. You can pick which date and which program you would like to enjoy.

Before the concert, you will wine and dine at Disney Hall’s flagship restaurant Patina. No need to rush… you can easily stroll from dinner to your seats. During intermission, you will enjoy dessert, or a glass of wine in the exclusive Founder’s Room, where other music lovers gather to discuss the evening’s performance.

A wonderful weekend — a getaway that will soothe your senses, feed your body, and entrance your soul.

Dates: Your Choice

Generously donated by Michael Gorfaine

CHICAGO’S RAVINIA FESTIVAL AND LICHTENSTEIN EXHIBIT

“Chicago, Chicago, a musical town…” Join the excitement of attending the oldest outdoor music festival in the United States as you revel in a Ravinia VIP Package. “You’ll have the time, the time of your life” enjoying great music and outdoor performances at the famous Ravinia Festival, home to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1936.

You will enjoy a pair of VIP tickets with President Welz Kaufman for concerts on both July 6 and 7. The first evening’s concert will feature the Emerson String Quartet, who were Music Directors of the Ojai Music Festival in 2002. Then, on Saturday night, you will be treated to Jaap Van Zweden making his Ravinia debut conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Sixth. Both evenings you will enjoy an elegant dinner at one of the white tablecloth restaurants in the award winning Dining Pavilion.

In addition to your VIP Ravinia package, you’ll enjoy free admission to the upcoming Lichtenstein retrospective exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibit opens in Chicago, and then travels to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Tate Modern in London, and the Centre de Pompidou in Paris. Great music, fabulous art, wonderful dinners, and fine accommodations assure you of a terrific time…. “We bet our bottom dollar you’ll lose your blues in Chicago!”

Dates: July 6-8, 2012

Generously donated by Welz Kaufmann | Ravinia Festival | Art Institute of Chicago

NEW YORK, NEW YORK!

“Start spreading the news… You’ll be leaving in May… You’ll be a part of it, New York, New York!“

Celebrate New York with a concert featuring the Nashville Symphony and two New York premieres in Carnegie Hall where you will be treated like the “king of the hill” during Tom Morris’ Spring for Music Festival. You’ll feel like “A-number one” as you are escorted backstage to meet the artists and be “top of the list” when you dine with Artistic Director Tom Morris. “Your vagabond shoes will be longing to stray”

as you visit the 2013 Music Director Mark Morris Dance Group studio in Brooklyn. And to cap your week, “those little town blues will start melting away” as you settle into your seats at the Metropolitan Opera for a fabulous performance of Britten’s Billy Budd. So make a “brand new start of it in old New York!”

Dates: May 11-13, 2012

Generously donated by Tom Morris | Spring For Music | the Metropolitan Opera | Mark Morris Dance Group

GLYNDBOURNE

You will feel like the magic of “Cinderella” has brought you to the ball in grand fashion when you enter the mythic Glyndbourne Opera House in Sussex, England, to enjoy Rossini’s La Cenerentola, his retelling of the Cinderella story. Tickets are rare and hard to obtain, but you and your companion will be escorted to the General Director’s box for a fabulous experience in one of the world’s most prestigious musical venues.

For 75 years, Glyndbourne has been the gold standard of top tier operatic performances and is known for its passion for artistic excellence. That, plus a setting in the Sussex countryside, makes this trip a fete you will never forget… even after the clock strikes midnight.

And like the most beloved fairy tales, your trip too has a “happily ever after” as you add another magical destination to your journey: the Hotel for Two on the stunning Isle of Mull in Scotland. Explore the extraordinary landscape by day and enjoy the lovingly decorated accommodations at night… your very own enchanted castle. Travel across the pond… your British Isles journey awaits!

Dates: between May 25 and June 29, 2012

Generously donated by Tom Morris | Glydnebourne | Julia Watson-Hotel for Two

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