As the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music gears up for its 50th anniversary season, maestra Marin Alsop talks about the festival’s reputation for embracing “the weird and the wonderful” and explains why, despite being insanely busy, she’s “completely satisfied.”
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Laura Karpman, Chief ‘Girl’
Laura Karpman’s resumé looks like the result of a life without downtime. The genre-bending lead composer for Hidden World of Girls has won four Emmys for her sci-fi television scores and written music for video games, film, opera, string quartets and world premiere commissions. “I definitely do collaboration,” Karpman says. “All of these concert music pieces I’ve done lately so profoundly draw from my work as a film composer. Even the really technical stuff came directly from the TV work.”
Hidden World of Girls
What does it mean to grow up female? An ambitious multimedia collaboration between NPR’s Kitchen Sisters and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music explores a dynamic question through sound, light, story and music. Hidden World of Girls</i has its world premiere Saturday, July 28 in Santa Cruz.
