Garden of Memory
"I walked in and the place was like an enchanted fairyland," Sarah Cahill recalls. "There were indoor gardens with skylights, like something out of 'Where the Wild Things Are.' There was one room that was taken over by a giant banana palm, and another with a cage with two lovebirds. There were fountains and staircases going off in all directions."
"Garden of Memory," the annual new-music event that grew out of that flash of inspiration, marks its 10th anniversary on Thursday amid a welter of sound ranging from the stentorian to the practically subliminal.
The concert, which takes place on the summer solstice to capture as much of the late daylight as possible, is a walk-through fun house of musical and visual splendor. Each year, Cahill signs up dozens of ensembles, duos, solo performers and sound installation artists, and in a process she likens to solving a jigsaw puzzle, disperses them throughout the countless chapels, hallways and rooms of the facility.
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Join us for our annual summer solstice celebration
Garden of Memory: a Columbarium Walk-Through Concert
to Celebrate the Solstice at Chapel of the Chimes,
a labyrinthine Julia Morgan-designed columbarium and mausoleum replete with gardens, fountains, and stained-glass skylights.
June 21 from 5pm to 9 pm
Chapel of the Chimes
4499 Piedmont Ave.
Oakland, CA 94611
You can find Laura Inserra at The Garden of Eternal Wisdom.