By Lyn Bronson

Chris Brubeck

Although it wasn’t a “pops” concert, it sure was a crowd pleaser! On Sunday afternoon the Monterey Symphony treated us to multi-media presentation of photographic images by Ansel Adams projected on a screen above the orchestra to the accompaniment of a commissioned work by Dave Brubeck and his son Chris. Chris Brubeck was on hand to greet the audience and to explain certain aspects of the score. A charming and articulate man, he alluded to the oft-quoted Ansel Adams remark that a musical score has much in common with a photographic negative — one has to be manipulated into a print and the other has to be realized in a performance by musicians, for otherwise they are lifeless and abstract.

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