The final program in this year’s Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music seemed designed to prove that modernism is not only alive and well, it’s kicking and bawling lustily.
As a way of bidding Rossini adieu, or so she intimates, Kurzak has at last produced an entire disc of the composer’s scenes and arias, many of which are rarely performed.
The title of a Music@Menlo program, “French Connections,” raises the question: May Bach be held a father of French music as he is of trios and of preludes and fugues?
Travel in time and space, nature vs. civilization, and forms of energy generation mark the provocative works featured on Cabrillo Festival’s Saturday program.