Photos: Ojai Music Festival 2012
The Ojai Music Festival began Thursday afternoon with a come one, come all public performance of John Luther Adams’ “Inuksuit,” performed by 48 percussion and piccolo players scattered through Libbey Park. (Michael Robinson-Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
The 66th Ojai Music Festival
It’s not every day you happen upon a drum kit among the trees of Libbey Park. But Thursday was the day, as four dozen musicians, scattered through the park, performed John Luther Adams’ “Inuksuit” at the beginning of the 66th Ojai Music Festival. (Michael Robinson-Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
Strollers pass one of the four-dozen musicians performing John Luther Adams’ “Inuksuit” at the start of the 2012 Ojai Music Festival. (Michael Robinson-Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
One of four dozen musicians, scattered through Libbey Park, performs John Luther Adams’ “Inuksuit.” (Michael Robinson-Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
You call them tin cans. They call them maracas. The 2012 Ojai Music Festival begins with four-dozen musicians performing John Luther Adams’ “Inuksuit.” The public, walk-through musical environment transformed Libby Park. (Michael Robinson-Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
The 2012 Ojai Music Festival’s official opening-night concert included Shostakovich’s “Six Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva” with this year’s music director, Leif Ove Andsnes, at the piano and mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn soloing. (Michael Robinson-Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
As part of Thursday evening’s opening program, pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin performs John Luther Adams’ “Red Arc/Blue Veil.” (Michael Robinson-Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin, left, and percussionist Steven Schick acknowledge the audience at the conclusion of John Luther Adams’ “Red Arc/Blue Veil.” The 2012 Ojai Music Festival continues through Sunday. (Michael Robinson-Chavez / Los Angeles Times)