Continuing with my series of lists covering the 2010 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary music, I have compiled this list of favorite photos that I took while at the festival.  There are certainly other photos (taken by others) that deserve to be in this list, but I don’t have the original files for those.  If  some of you CabFest musicians have photos to share with me, then I can make a separate list for those.

You will, no doubt, notice that many of the photos have nothing to do with music or the festival directly. IMHO, that is a defining characteristic of a successful festival: a setting that will attract the best musicians and give them a reprieve from their daily lives and whatever music they happen to be playing at the time. All the pics of the California Coast (below) were taken on our day off, and believe me — amidst the insanity of the music we play (and, as Daniel Barenboim used to say, “I mean that in the nicest possible way”) — we needed these peaceful surroundings to be able to recharge our batteries before tackling the programs for the second week of the festival. I hope you enjoy the pics as much as I enjoyed taking them.

10. Soif! -- One of THE places to be after a show. Great Wine. Great Food. What’s not to like? I think this is the only time I saw it during the day…

9. Santa Cruz Boardwalk – The Essence of Santa Cruz

8. California Coast – Where else would you find this scenery?

7. Up on a Rock — Taken from atop a lone rock, 30 meters in the air. Only in California…

6. The Cross at Mission San Juan Bautista — Sunset at the mission is stunning. Fantastic light.

5. Grey Day — Feeding my inner Ansel Adams.

4. San Juan Bautista Bells — The Bell Tower at the Beautiful Mission San Juan Bautista

3. John and Me — John Adams and me after the performance of City Noir at the Cabrillo Festival 8/14/2010

2. Jutting Rocks — Does it get any more dramatic than the California Coast?  Love my Leica D-Lux4

1. The soloists. The composer. — The true value of any festival comes in the people you work with. When I look at the quality of the musicians in this picture, I know that the value of the Cabrillo Festival is as high as they come. (L to R: Craig Morris [tpt], Ava Ordman[trb], John Adams, Tim Mcallister[sax])

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