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Camerata Pacifica’s Beethoven Project

Camerata Pacifica began life almost 30 years ago as the Bach Camerata, a tribute to the famed Baroque composer whose music they frequently performed, including multiple concerts of the Brandenburg Concertos. But even before the Santa Barbara-based chamber music organization changed to its current moniker right around the time it marked its first decade, the ensemble had adopted a more modern attitude, playing lots of new music, including commissioning many pieces from cutting-edge composers.

So, why in the world would this forward-thinking innovative organization want to spend the next two seasons delving deep into music of the most famous composer in history – Ludwig Van Beethoven?

It’s simple, said Cam Pac founder Adrian Spence. It’s because large numbers of listeners, including casual classical music fans and devotees of the music alike, really don’t understand Beethoven at all.

“Beethoven is such an icon that most people don’t actually hear his music,” Spence explained. “They’re not aware of everything that Beethoven did, and what he still does to us today – his impact. It’s all too easy just to hear those famous four notes (from the Fifth Symphony), or Ode to Joy, and smile with the recognition of familiarity without realizing

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Camerata Pacifica turns 30 with Auerbach and Beethoven

A nice series of personal connections played out on the opening night of Camerata Pacifica's 30th season. It was an evening in the best traditions of LA new music, with a program of which Lawrence Morton would have been proud. Morton, the Ojai Festival's first artistic director and a vital force in Southern California's new music scene in its formative years, felt not just that music should be written to provoke, to draw attention, but to strive to express something about humanity that might cause is to be remembered.

I was lucky enough to have known Morton through the foul haze of Gauloises cigarettes he chain-smoked. The pairing of Lera Auerbach's 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano with Beethoven's “Archduke” Trio would have also confirmed what he believed: feeding himself and the public parallel streams of old and new music. There was another LA connection as well, and another anniversary; the 24 Preludes being on the verge of occupying a unique position in contemporary violin literature confirms the faith of LA music lovers Herbert and Beverly Gelfand who commissioned the work in

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