SEASON 2
Welcome to OJAICast, where we pull back the curtain to take a sneak-peek at the upcoming Ojai Music Festival, June 9 to 12, in beautiful Ojai Valley, California. All are welcome here, from newcomers to long-time music fans. In-depth insights and special guests will help introduce this year’s programming and whet your musical appetites for what’s to come with host Emily Praetorius.
Episode 1
Our first episode introduces us to our 2022 Music Director AMOC, the multidisciplinary collective which incorporates music, dance, poetry, theatre in all their work and their ambitious programming that begins on Thu June 9. Guests: Ara Guzelimian, Zack Winokur, and Keir Gogwilt
Emily Praetorius, producer and host
Louis Ng, sound engineer (lensonproductions.com)
OJAICast theme by Thomas Kotcheff and Louis Weeks
Music Excerpts in Episode 1:
Craigie Hill, by Keir GoGwilt and Celeste Oram
Performed by Keir GoGwilt
Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc, by Julius Eastman
Performed by Julius Eastman
Rebonds B, by Iannis Xenakis
Performed by Steven Schick
Gretchen am spinnrade, by Eric Wubbels
Performed by Eric Wubbels and Mariel Roberts
Episode 2
From early morning sunrise to evening sunset, AMOC dives into the music of icons George Lewis and Roscoe Mitchell, the life and music of Julius Eastman alongside world premieres of works by Anthony Cheung and new staging of Messian’s Harawi. Guests: AMOC member and flutist Emi Ferguson and composer Anthony Cheung.
Emily Praetorius, producer and host
Louis Ng, sound engineer (lensonproductions.com)
OJAICast theme by Thomas Kotcheff and Louis Weeks
Music Excerpts in Episode 2:
Gay Guerilla, by Julius Eastman
Performed by Julius Eastman
Stay on It, by Julius Eastman
Performed by Julius Eastman, Doug Gaston, Amrom Chodos, Dennis Kahle, Benjamin Hudson, Joseph Ford, George Mitkoff, Jan Williams, Peter Kotik
Harawi, mvts. 2, 6, 10, by Olivier Messiaen
Performed by Hetna Regitze Bruun and Kristoffer Hyldig
Episode 3
Let Festival weekend begin! In this episode we look at the Saturday program which is quintessential Ojai Music Festival — music of Bach and Bach re-imagined and three premieres of some of today’s most exciting composers Matthew Aucoin, Carolyn Chen, and Andrew McIntosh. Guests: AMOC co-founder/composer Matthew Aucoin and AMOC member and violinist Miranda Cuckson.
Emily Praetorius, producer and host
Louis Ng, sound engineer (lensonproductions.com)
OJAICast theme by Thomas Kotcheff and Louis Weeks
Music Excerpts in Episode 3:
cross/collapse, by Catherine Lamb
About Bach, by Cassandra Miller
Performed by Quatuor Bozzini
Tanz Tanz, by Reiko Füting
Performed by Olivia de Prato
Prelude in G Minor, by Bach
Performed by Emi Ferguson and Ruckus
Little Jimmy, by Andrew McIntosh
Performed by Yarn/Wire
Episode 4
More music, meditation, and dance plus community events end the four-day Festival starting with Meditation with the music of Julius Eastman, followed by Hans Otte’s The Book of Sounds, and two world premieres Dance in the Park and Rome is Falling. To end this jam-packed Fesrival, the Sunday Finale will display the virtuosity of all 17 AMOC members as a collective. Guests: Ara Guzelimian, Julia Eichten, and Doug Balliett.
Emily Praetorius, producer and host
Louis Ng, sound engineer (lensonproductions.com)
OJAICast theme by Thomas Kotcheff and Louis Weeks
Music Excerpts in Episode 4:
The Book of Sounds, mvts. 1, 10, by Hans Otte
Performed by Ralph van Raat
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OJAICast SEASON 1
ABOUT OUR OJAICAST HOST
Emily Praetorius, former Ojai Music Festival intern and Rothenberg Intern Fellow, is a current Composition DMA candidate at Columbia University. She previously studied composition and clarinet performance at the University of Redlands (BM) and composition at Manhattan School of Music (MM). She has studied with Kathryn Nevin (clarinet), Susan Botti, Georg Friedrich Haas, George Lewis, and Anthony Suter. Emily is from Ojai, CA and lives in New York City where she is a proud co-owner of Kuro Kirin Espresso & Coffee.