Summer Festival at The Huntington: Concert 2 July 24, 2010

The 2010 Southwest Chamber Music Summer Festival at The Huntington resumes on the Loggia of The Huntington Art Gallery. This popular rite of summer will feature a major work on each weekend by prominent women composers Thea Musgrave, Gabriela Ortiz, Anne Le Baron and Alexandra du Bois. New this summer - patrons can bring their own picnic to enjoy on the lawn. Also available are pre-concert full service dinners in The Huntington Tea Room, available when concert tickets are purchased, making our festival a perfect way to spend a summer evening. These regularly sold-out concerts will take place on July 10, 11, 24, 25 and August 7, 8, 21, 22 at The Huntington in San Marino on Saturday and Sunday evenings at 7:30 p.m.

~ Concert 2 ~ The fiery music of Revueltas and an epic 'Rasumovsky' quartet of Beethoven surround the
music of Gabriela Ortiz, one of the fore most composers in Mexico today. A vibrant presence in
the international scene, her musical language achieves a synthesis of tradition and the avantgarde.
Combining high art, folk music and jazz in novel, frequently refined and always personal ways, Ms. Ortiz’s compositions are credited for being entertaining and immediate as well as profound and sophisticated.

Official Website: http://www.swmusic.org/summer_festival/calendar.html