Oh-High-Lights II

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The audiences arrived and took their seats in Libby Bowl itself or set up chairs and blankets on the lawn above it, then settled in to enjoy the second day and night of the 73rd edition of the Ojai Music Festival. Friday’s 2 concerts began in a warm afternoon with…

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Oh-High-Lights Pt 1

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The 73rd edition of the Ojai Music Festival had the good fortune of having Barbara Hannigan as Music Director. Ms. Hannigan is a soprano/conductor of vast and varied talent whose performances on stage throughout the four days and three nights of this always eclectic and more often than not “cutting…

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Touching

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Professor of Geophysics Ever Montgomery has Asperger’s Syndrome (now considered part of the Autism Spectrum), and social interactions are a problem for him, with physical contact being the most difficult one of all. Ever is going to receive an award and part of the dinner in his honor includes dancing, but…

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Banging Right Out of the Box

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The 73rd annual Ojai Music Festival began June 6th with their first full-length opera production, Igor Stravinsky’s 1951 comic tragedy “The Rake’s Progress.” Inspired by Hogarth’s series of paintings and engravings of the same name, this is a fable about the downfall of one Tom Rakewell who unknowingly sells his…

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