Vijay Iyer is music director of Ojai Festival 2017

[medjuck]

http://www.ojaifestival.org/vijay-iyer-2017-music-director/

Vijay Iyer is music director of the nearby Ojai Festival 2017.  Should I get excited?    (I don't know his work but I did go there to see Maria Schneider a couple of years ago and it's a nice location.) 

[jlhoots]

I like him.

[optatio]

He was here in 2008 with Rudresh Mahanthappa. One of the highlights of our annual festival http://www.jazzfestival-goettingen.de/index2.php/ 

[JSngry]

15 hours ago, medjuck said:

 Should I get excited?    

I would allow for the possibility.

http://www.ojaifestival.org/vijay-iyer-shares-2017-programming/

2017 Festival programming will feature the world premiere of a commissioned violin concerto by Vijay Iyer for violinist Jennifer Koh; the West Coast premiere of George Lewis’ Afterword: The AACM (as) Opera, based on his award-winning book A Power Stronger than Itself; Stravinsky’s Le Sacré du Printemps in a new arrangement for ICE by Cliff Colnot; and Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi – film by Prashant Bhargava with music by Vijay Iyer, performed with ICE. Additional programming will be announced in the fall.

 

 

 

[medjuck]

Just got a program:  participants will include Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith and Muhal Richard Abrams. 

[BFrank]

2 hours ago, medjuck said:

Just got a program:  participants will include Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith and Muhal Richard Abrams. 

MORE good reasons to go!

[Hoppy T. Frog]

 

 

Just now, Hoppy T. Frog said:

So almost all of this festival is on You Tube-- an absolutely incredible lineup, including George Lewis' opera Afterword, performances by Wadada Leo Smith and by the Muhal Abrams/Roscoe Mitchell/Geroge Lewis Trio, a whole evening of Nicole Mitchell's notated works, and more Tyshawn Sorey than you can shake a stick at. Ckick on the top right link for the whole playlist.  I am listening to Inner Spectrum right now, so great.  

 

 

Edited April 12, 2021 by Hoppy T. Frog
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