It’s time for preparing event sheets, laminating, hanging out with friends, amazing beer, mountains, spiders and best of all: stellar music. This year’s program is from all over the globe: we have Ensemble Modern from Germany, Indian ragas performed all weekend… and all sorts of Frank Zappa on Friday. As always, it is an eclectic, wonderful adventure. And it is the last adventure that will be held in the present Libbey Bowl. Later this month, the Bowl will be torn down to make way for a new, sturdier Bowl… one that doesn’t face the tennis courts. : ) The simplistic qualities of Libbey will be preserved but artist ammenities and seating will be drasticly improved. There are 5 or 6 interns that are composers this year and we all joke that they are just getting ready for the 2030 program that we already have prepared.

More to come as the ghosts of Boulez, Stravinsky, Messiaen and Zappa roam the stage as music director George Benjamin leads them on.

Keep listening! (Really, go to the OMF website for previews)

-e