Along with much Bach, including the Mass in B minor and Cantatas Nos. Janos Starker and music director Dennis Russell Davies play Beethoven's cello-piano works. A broad exploration of contemporary West Coast composers, including, in residence, Henry Brant, David Cope, Lou Harrison, Gordon Mumma and Chinary Ung. CABRILLO FESTIVAL Santa Cruz and environs, July 20-30. 4 and the ''Choral Fantasy.'' Soloists include Garrick Ohlssohn, who also plays a ''Candlelight Recital'' to help close the series, and Ilana Vered. The opening concert, repeated once, re-creates a famous Beethoven program, including Symphonies Nos. The San Francisco Symphony plays mostly Beethoven under Michael Tilson Thomas. CALIFORNIA BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL San Francisco, Berkeley, June 15-July 1. Artists-in-residence include James Greeson and Alvin Chow. Donald Erb directs the new Composer's Forum, June 17-21 Daniel Moe, the Choral Institute, June 22-25. ARKANSAS MUSIC FESTIVAL OF ARKANSAS Fayetteville, June 8-25. The Blair Quartet gives weekend concerts with guest artists Angela Cofer, David Krakauer and Thomas Scheeley. SEDONA CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL June 17-25. The main event, Saturday, in the Posse Grounds outdoor amphitheater, features Cleo Laine and John Dankworth, Bud Shank, the Woody Herman Orchestra under Frank Tiberi, others. Symphonic and pops concerts and chamber-music brunches form part of a multi-arts program on the campus of Northern Arizona University.

ARIZONA FLAGSTAFF FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS July 7-30. This year's most sizable event takes place in Toronto in June - a one-time International Choral Festival that looks extraordinarily attractive. Norrington.Įach summer seems to produce one blockbuster. At the PepsiCo Summerfare in Purchase, N.Y., whose daring schedule - all three of Peter Sellars' stagings of Mozart operas - is overshadowed by the knowledge that this season will be the festival's last, the final event will be a weekend devoted entirely to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, presided over by Mr. The biennial Boston Early Music Festival is back with an impressive array of activities, including a weekend dominated by the conductor Roger Norrington. Whether their taste runs to familiar orchestral chestnuts, gatherings of avant-garde composers, elaborate exercises in early-music performance or traditional jazz, music lovers will find much to savor at the festivals planned in North America this summer.Ī few events seem especially newsworthy.

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