First, this:
Steve Reich, the 2008 featured composer at the Ojai Music Festival described by New Yorker magazine as “the most original musical thinker of our time,” has won a Pulitzer Prize for Double Sextet, which was commissioned and premiered in 2007 by eighth blackbird, the music director of the 2009 Ojai Music Festival. The 22-minute work can be performed either by a sextet playing against a prerecording of the work or as an ensemble of 12 instrumentalists.
On Sunday, June 14, the closing day of the four-day Ojai Music Festival, eighth blackbird will be joined by six ‘live’ musicians in a performance of Steve Reich’s Double Sextet, to open the Festival’s four-hour Marathon Finale.
And after the jump, a bunch of photos from the 2009 Ojai Music Festival Preview, which was held up at Meditation Mount this weekend. (photo credits: Lynn Malone)
(above) Board president Christine Drucker chats with Roger Kellaway
(above) Jeff Haydon and Festival producer Susan Anderson
(above) Pam Melone and friends
(above) Seasons Catering spread
(above) Steve and Liz Grumette
(above) Tom Morris presenting
