In 1995, the year of Festival Eighteen, COTA reaches a long-term lease agreement with the National Park Service, which allows organization to make improvements on the land across from main stage. A master plan is developed for the phased development of a natural amphitheater-like festival setting. New Kind of Talk plays this year, plus the Alex Watkins Quartet. The Dave Liebman Group presents Songs for My Daughter. The Bill Mays Trio is on this year's bill, with Tim Horner on the drums. The Absolut Trio plays, as well as the Deb Gaber Group. This year, the Jazz Mass is available on CD, having been recorded in June at Red Rock Studios in Saylorsburg, PA. The 15th anniversary of the COTA Cats is celebrated in the festival program, and the force behind the Cats, director Pat Dorian, is feted in an essay by Phil Woods.
The Music Motiff Show, a juried art exhibit, moves to the Antoine Dutot Museum. COTA loses another great friend this year, when pianist and composer John Scully dies, on January 19th. He's remembered in the festival program for his cantata in honor of Martin Luther King.
The Music Motiff Show, a juried art exhibit, moves to the Antoine Dutot Museum. COTA loses another great friend this year, when pianist and composer John Scully dies, on January 19th. He's remembered in the festival program for his cantata in honor of Martin Luther King.
Higher still and higher
From the earth thou springest
Like a cloud of fire;
The blue deep thou wingest,
And singing still dost soar,
and soaring ever singest.
From the earth thou springest
Like a cloud of fire;
The blue deep thou wingest,
And singing still dost soar,
and soaring ever singest.
...as Shelley once described Hoagy Carmichael's bright skylark, pitched in his inimitable key.
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