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Friday’s Ojai Music Festival concerts delved into the world of loss and despair, beginning in the early afternoon with a program of the music by Russian composer Galina Utvolskaya, first with a two uncompromisingly harsh and spare pieces for violin and piano, followed by six sonatas for piano. Musical director PatKop…
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As a travel writer, essayist and lecturer, and one of the growing number of people living in a country other than where they were born, Pico Iyer is in constant motion much of the time and for most of his life he had a hard time saying where he called…
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The Ojai Music Festival is dedicated to presenting artists who mine a deep vein of tradition and venture beyond the boundaries of “classical” music, to a sphere that is below (or above) the radar of the vast majority of music lovers. Trained in the techniques and aesthetics of the pre-twentieth century…
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Using the proper amount of heat is essential when cooking. And making music. The blues and jazz can be cool, or very hot. In the case of Ensemble Theatre Company’s “Cookin’ at the Cookery: The Music and Times of Alberta Hunter,” Dayna Jarae Dantzler and LaVon Fisher-Wilson, the actor/singers extraordinaire who…
