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Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music records
Creator:
Cabrillo Music Festival
Identifier/Call Number: MS.064
Physical Description:
82.75 Linear Feet
57 records cartons, 6 flat boxes, 4 oversize folders
Physical Description:
166.53 GB
8,508 digital files
Date (inclusive): 1962-2019
Abstract: The Cabrillo
Festival of Contemporary Music (previously Cabrillo Music Festival), is an annual music
festival in Santa Cruz, California that features symphonic works by contemporary composers.
This collection contains administrative records of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary
Music organization, as well as audio recordings of most Festival performances from
1964-2019.
Physical Location: Collection stored, in part, off-site at
NRLF: Advance notice is required for access. Boxes 29-62 are stored offsite.
Language of Material:
English .
Collection open for research. Audiovisual media is unavailable until reformatted. Digital
files are available in the UCSC Special Collections and Archives reading room. Some files
may require reformatting before they can be accessed. Technical limitations may hinder the
Library's ability to provide access to some digital files. Access to digital files on
original carriers is prohibited; users must request to view access copies. Contact Special
Collections and Archives in advance to request access to audiovisual media and digital
files.
Property rights for this collection reside with the University of California. Literary
rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. The publication
or use of any work protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use for research or
educational purposes requires written permission from the copyright owner. Responsibility
for obtaining permissions, and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music records. MS 64. Special Collections and Archives,
University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, 1997, 2019.
Audio recordings of Festival performances from 1964-1990 are available online via
UC Santa Cruz
University Library Digital Media Collections.
Audio recordings from 1991-2003
have been digitized and are available upon request.
The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (previously Cabrillo Music Festival), is an
annual music festival in Santa Cruz, California that features symphonic works by
contemporary composers. The origins of the Festival begin with a 1961 concert series held at
the Sticky Wicket coffeehouse in Aptos, California. Lou Harrison, Robert Hughes, Alyce
Vestal, Bud Kretschmer, Ted Toews, and Sticky Wicket owners Vic and Sidney Jowers were among
the early figures who shaped the Festival. In 1963, the series was moved to the Cabrillo
College Theater and officially became the Cabrillo Music Festival. In the late 1970s, the
Festival broke affiliation with Cabrillo College and was held at various locations
throughout Santa Cruz county during the 1980s. It has been held primarily at the Santa Cruz
Civic Auditorium since 1991, with frequent performances at Mission San Juan Bautista in San
Juan Bautista, California. Musical directors of the Festival include Gerhard Samuel
(1963-1968), Richard Williams (1969), Carlos Chávez (1970-1973), Dennis Russell Davies
(1974-1990), John Adams (1991), Marin Alsop (1992-2016), and Cristian Macelaru (2017- ).
This collection contains administrative records of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary
Music organization, as well as audio recordings of most Festival performances from
1967-2019. Administrative records reflect the planning, execution, and funding of the yearly
festival season and other events, as well as the functioning of the Festival Board,
Executive Committee, and Festival staff. The collection also includes photographs and video
recordings of the Festival events and participants, season posters, and scores commissioned
by the Festival. Collection materials consist of a mix of paper, photographic, audiovisual,
and digital formats. Digital file formats include .aif, .cr2, .db, .doc, .dox, .jpg, .m4v,
.mkv, .mov, .mp3, .mp4, .pdf, .tiff, .wav, and .xlsx.
The collection is arranged into the following nine series:
Series 1: Season Files
Series 2: Special Events and Programs
Subseries 2.1: Paper Files
Subseries 2.2: Digital Files
Series 3: Granting Foundations
Series 4: Board Minutes and Financials
Subseries 4.1: Paper Minutes and Financial Reports
Subseries 4.2: Digital Financial Reports and Organizational Documents
Series 5: Photographs
Subseries 5.1: Prints, Slides, Negatives
Subseries 5.2: Digital Photographs
Series 6: Scores
Subseries 6.1 Commissioned Scores
Subseries 6.2 Collected Scores
Series 7: Posters
Series 8: Audio
Subseries 8.1: Audio Tapes
Subseries 8.2: Digital Audio Files
Series 9: Video
Subseries 9.1: Video Tapes
Subseries 9.2: Digital Video Files
This collection was processed by Kate Dundon in 2019-2020 with assistance from student
assistants Klytie Xu and Michael Conlee. Original order of paper files was retained where
possible. Many folders and folder labels are original to the creator. Special Collections
staff transferred the digital portion of the collection from the Festival office server and
98 CDs and 13 DVDs (carrier media). The carrier media were not retained in the physical
collection. Special Collections staff interfiled content from the Festival's server and
carrier media into one file directory. Digital file names are original to the creator. Some
digital audiovisual files were selectively reformatted for easier access. Dates of digital
audio and video files were altered due to technology used to transfer files and do not
reflect their original creation date. Selected audio tapes of Festival performances from
1977-2003 were digitized in 2017 and 2019 with grant funding support from the Council on
Library and Information Resources.
To search a database of information on artists featured and musical works performed at the
Festival from 1963-2019, see the Festival's
Live Program History Database.
For an inventory of the digital files in this collection, see
MS64
Digital Files Directory
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Music festivals -- California -- Santa Cruz
County
Cabrillo Music Festival