NEW AND NOVEL SOUNDS
BERKELEY—-With some 100 groups participating, the California Festival: A Celebration of New Music sprang to life with a bang as the San Francisco Symphony visited the Berkeley with all-modern music that was well-attended—a daring concert venture indeed. When it came to the world premiere, the students in the house were vociferous in their enthusiasm, perhaps most responsive to the rock-music blended into the orchestra by the black composer Jens Ibsen with his “Drowned in Light.” In his stimulating quarter-hour two-movement…