Hidden World of Girls: Stories for Orchestra July 28, 2012

Saturday, July 28, 8pm and Sunday, July 29, 1pm & 8pm

Cabrillo Festival's 50th anniversary season opens with the world premiere of Hidden World of Girls: Stories for Orchestra, an evening-length work based on stories developed by Peabody Award-winning radio producers The Kitchen Sisters (a.k.a. Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson) for their series on National Public Radio. This groundbreaking new work uses the power of the symphonic form and contemporary multimedia to explore the diverse lives of girls and the women they become-stories of coming of age, rituals and rites of passage, secret identities-women who crossed a line, blazed a trail, changed the tide. Women and girls' stories and secrets emerge from the dunes of the Sahara, the prisons of Louisiana, a racetrack in Ramallah, a reservation in South Dakota, a horse fair in Cork, a slumber party in New York City, the planet Venus, and beyond. Four remarkably talented women composers add their own distinctive voices and personal interpretations to these stirring and culturally diverse stories.

Hidden World of Girls: Stories for Orchestra is the collaboration between The Kitchen Sisters as lead concept artists; four-time Emmy award-winning composer Laura Karpman as lead composer and creative director; three distinguished emerging female composers-Clarice Assad, Alexandra du Bois, and Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum; the world renowned media design group Obscura Digital; and Cabrillo Festival's esteemed music director and conductor Marin Alsop; and it features two local teenage girl soloists including Jacklyn Partida (a.k.a. Jackie Rocks) on electric guitar, and percussionist Emily Liu.

The 2012 season begins on July 28 with an outdoor Pre-Concert Talk by Marin Alsop and a special ticketed dinner prepared by Feast for a King and served alfresco at the Civic Auditorium. Reservations required.

The two evening performances of Hidden World of Girls include Post-Concert Talkback Sessions with Marin Alsop and the creative team.

Official Website: http://cabrillomusic.org/2012-season/performances/hidden-world-of-girls-stories-for-orchestra.html