SLOW CURVES AND SUBTLE SWELLS AT CABRILLO
SANTA CRUZ, CA—-The Cabrillo Festival tossed out a few curve-balls in one concert, with good old romantic, programmatic sounds reveling in tone painting, all from composers averaging under 40 years of age. After celebrating the avant-garde, why not a little stylistic retrospection for a change? Among the best of these was “Abstractions” by the English composer turned New Yorker, Anna Clyne, running close to 20 minutes and serving as the grand finale of the Aug. 11 evening. Clyne…
