Ojai Music Festival wraps up 65th season
It’s a delicious puzzle to contemplate. Is this year’s Ojai Music Festival music director Dawn Upshaw the luckiest person in the world because she has so many multitalented collaborative friends, or are the friends the luckiest because they have Upshaw to urge them on in rewarding directions?
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Music review: Dawn Upshaw, Peter Sellars and George Crumb in the 2011 Ojai Festival
Concerts at this year’s Ojai Music Festival, the 65th, tended to be preceded with something rare in this magical musical kingdom. Grumbling. Take your choice: the amateurish restoration of Libbey Bowl, the new sound system, the weather (cloudy and cold be it morning, noon or night).
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Australian Chamber Orchestra entertains crowds at Ojai Music Festival
The Australian Chamber Orchestra displayed its considerable wares at Saturday’s Ojai Music Festival events, culminating in a stringent evening concert that demonstrated a serene compatibility with the festival’s honored tradition of featuring at least one rarely heard work.
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