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Unknown: The Cabrillo Music Festival is off to a great start with that performance of William Schumann's American festival Overture performed by the Festival Orchestra conducted by Marin alsa. Next up is

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first light by Richard Daniel poor. Born in 1956. First Light was commissioned and first performed by the Seattle Symphony under the direction of music director, Gerald Schwartz. its composition was made possible by a Jerome Foundation

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grant. And there are actually two versions of First Light for Chamber Orchestra. And for large orchestra. The Seattle Symphony gave the public premiere of the chamber orchestra see the version. And they have recorded large orchestra version, which

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is the one we're going to hear tonight. This 99 1988 work is based on the text of a poem by Robert Duncan for pictures of the real universe. And Richard Daniel poor quotes these lines, and does not the spirit attend

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secretly the music that is hidden away from me, chords that hold the stars in their courses, out foldings of sound from the seed of First Light, were it not for the orders of music hidden, we should be claimed by the preponderant void. What a lovely

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sentiment. And I always loved music that comes from poetry, something that brings it along with the music, that extra texture always helps. So let us be prepared to listen

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to first live by Richard Daniel pours there and also comes back on stage. Thank you very much. It's great to be back in Santa Cruz. During the other 11 months, in two weeks, I think about the sea.

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And I think about the restaurants and the roller coaster. And most of all, I think about having an audience like you, that not only embraces but encourages us to take risks with our programming, a unique situation for all of us. And

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we're very appreciative to be here and have you here listening to us. The next piece on the program is by a young American composer named Richard Daniel poor. This piece was inspired by a poem by Robert Duncan, which talks a lot about hidden inner

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private spirituality, and the conflict it has to face when confronted with the real world. And as a reflection of the poem, Daniel poor kind of hides the material upon which the piece is built until the very end of the piece. And to reflect this

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spirituality actually, very literally, he bases the piece on several small Ollie Lewis from the Catholic liturgy, which we finally hear near the end of the peace. Now, it's the same material that begins a piece of course, it's

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very disguised, though, and it's as a reflection of this outer world. It's extremely robotic and mechanical at the beginning of the piece. Hard to believe it's the same stuff, isn't it? And then in the

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second part of the piece, you start to get insight into this more emotional, private, lyrical world of his. And of course, then there's a terrible conflict now between this outer sort of robotic world and this inner private world, so

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he has to somehow resolve that. That's not where it gets resolved. It goes through in case you couldn't tell, but eventually it does get resolved and really the spiritual world and the inner world dominates,

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but you still hear sort of this dissipating nervousness of the outer world in the violence. So I hope you enjoy this the first light by Richard Daniel port A very warm reception for Richard Daniel pours first light

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performed in its West Coast premiere by the Cabrillo Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Marin allsup and this is k USP Santa Cruz Monterey Salinas where we are bringing you opening night of the 1995 Cabrillo Music Festival Live

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from the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. Next on the program is Donald urbs, the seventh trumpet of composition dating from 1969. The seventh trumpet is based on a text from the Book of Revelations in the Bible. Marin also spoke with Donald Erb

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on the outdoor stage just before tonight's concert, and she may be telling us a bit more about the piece right now before the orchestra performs as she did during the last piece. Marian loves to talk to

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the audience and give insights into what we're about to hear. Another Cabrillo Music Festival untraditional tradition is that the conductor seldom turns his or her back on the audience without first giving some thoughts and insights into the

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music about to be played the wonderful informality of the Cabrillo Music Festival is one of the things I think it's so appropriately Santa Cruz and something that we cherish so much we've really gotten so that we no longer feel as uptight as

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we sometimes do in the concert hall when everyone's wearing black tie and tails. But us maybe, but not this orchestra. This is not a black tie and tails. Marcus Jones is the casual version of California.

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They're beautiful though, they just start wearing uniforms. Maybe this is a good time to say that this special broadcast of the Cabrillo Music Festival is made possible by a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

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We're looking forward to talking with Marin in the intermission of tonight's program after the performance now of the seventh trumpet will ask Marian what she's been up to in the as she said the 11 months in two weeks since she was here last time.

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We'll hear all about it in the intermission. Here comes Marian now to conduct Donald urbs the seventh trumpet. Of course, our composer of the evening to be my wife sidekick isn't quite the word for this, I guess. But he's going to give

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you a brief refresher course on the Bible. just just just the book of revelations and just a portion of it, you can go home and catch up on the rest. So it's my pleasure to introduce Donald herb who will be reading from the Bible.

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When I am when I get all through the pianist is going to play a choruses of just as I am and you all can come forward alright. This is from the King James Version instead of the Bible was no hard words. And and I'm going to read a sort of an abbreviated

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version of comic book version. And the seven angels which have had seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. The first angel sounded in there followed hail and fire mingled with blood. And they were cast upon the earth and the third part of

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the trees was burned up, and all the green grass was burned up. And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea. And the third part of the sea became blood. And the third part of the creatures were

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turning the stream and the half life died. And the third part of the ships were destroyed. And then the third angel sounded in their cat fell for a great star from heaven, burnings that were a lamp and it fell upon a third part of the rivers and upon the

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fountains of waters, the name of the star is called Wormwood. And the third part of the waters became word with and many men died of the waters because they were made better, better. Hey, guys, your little background noise from my act here Come on.

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And the fourth angel sounded, the third part of the sun was smitten, and a third part of the moon, a third part of the stars. So the third part of them was darkened, and the day shown not for a third part of it night likewise. Then the fifth angel

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sounded and I saw a star fall from heaven onto the earth, and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit and he opened the bottomless pit. And there arose smoke out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air were

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darkened by the reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth and upon them was given power as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass, the earth or

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any green thing. So on and it was Skip on a little farther ahead. And then it says, there's an important part here it says, and to them it was given that they should not kill them, but they should have been re tormented five months. And their

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torment was as a torment of a scorpion, when you strike with a man, and in those days shall men seek death, is shall not find it is shall desire to die and death shall flee from and, and the sixth age of sound. And I heard a voice from the four horns that

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golden Allah which is before God, saying unto the sixth angel, which has a trumpet, loose the four angels, which are bound in the river Euphrates, and the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour a day, in a month in a year to

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slay a third of the part of men. And the number of them army, the horsemen were 200,000, and I heard the number of them, I saw the horses in Division, and that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, of jasson, of brimstone, and the heads of the

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horses, whereas the heads of lions and out of their mouth issued fire and smoke and brimstone, and so on. scary stuff. And the rest of the men, which were not killed by these plagues, yet repressed did not have the works of their hands,

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that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver and brass and stone, and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. Neither they repetitive, a, they have their murders, nor of their sorceries, or of their foreign locations,

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nor of their thefts. And then the last thing I'd like to read, but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, we shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he has declared to his servants, the prophets, and God pulls the

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chain on the whole thing. There we are. Well, when I wrote this, I had no idea about doing anything literal about these things. But actually, some things have kind of turned up like that. And people have mentioned them to me, so I'm

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going to show you a few of them. Because the first one let's see where's my number one here? Oh, page turned on me. So here we go. Number One has to do with I think at to them was given that they should not kill them that should be tormented five months

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and it goes on from there. And to me at the time, it seemed to me that in this you can interpret level of revelation many ways, but it seemed to me to refer to mental torment, insanity, if you will. So here's some funny music.

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Yes, yes. And I think I don't have to read this because there was a reference in here, too, to lock us in. And here come the locus and I didn't do this intentionally at the time but they sure do sound like them.

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I tell you what, I'm having trouble here. Man with my what's the third one had all the end of the end of the world is next year. So over here is very. So we'll get just a short introduction to the end of the world. All right, okay. She says

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we're gonna leave you with the end of the world. You get the idea. There. We are. That performance of Donald herbs the seventh trumpet brings to a close the first half of the opening night of the 1995

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Cabrillo Music Festival. This is k USP Santa Cruz Monterey Salinas. We are alive at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium bringing you this broadcast of the Cabrillo Music Festival opening night concert sponsored by

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k USP celebrating 20 years of broadcasting the Cabrillo Music Festival. Coming up in the second half will be a major work by Terry Riley, the sands composed in 1991 on the eve of the Persian

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Gulf War. This is a work for orchestra with a string quartet, the string quartet who will be appearing with the Cabrillo Music Festival orchestra happens to be Kronos, probably one of the if not the premier quartet in the world for being

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innovative. Brilliant, and virtuosic, with no holds barred when it comes to the repertoire they play. The audience has certainly appreciated this performance was now the seventh trumpet and mariners have will be joining us

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here in a few minutes during intermission to talk about what she's been doing in the last while and a little bit about the rest of the performances coming up for the Cabrillo Music Festival. This special broadcast of the Cabrillo Music Festival

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is made possible by a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The airwaves have been full of music lately on k USP and