This Saturday, 08/06/16, Marin Alsop and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra perform the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music INSPIRATION & IMPACT concert, with pieces by Adams, Kropf, and Puts. I popped in to have a listen and made a few recordings. Listen to one below.
Go to this festival, it's a local gem.
I visited The Kingdom of Boomeria, the unusual home of Preston Q. Boomer. On his property is a castle, a chapel with a home-built pipe organ, catacombs that lie beneath the structures, a guillotine, and a world of other surprises. The SC Baroque festival was putting on a benefit that featured various performances and demonstrations throughout the day.
This is a recording I made (with permission). It's unusual to hear a pipe organ in such a small, dry space. Usually pipe organs are heard in great cathedrals and are swimming in reverberation. The organ is constructed in such a way that you can crawl "into" the organ to sit and listen. It took 20 years to build with the help of his science students.
A departure from previous Old Soul Music Mixtapes, this set focuses on 1960s & 1970s "Library" music; production music made for film, radio and television.
