SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2008 AT 4:00PM
Ron McFarland & Friends
80th Birthday Celebration
Donna Bruno, mezzo-soprano; Kelly Leo-Pearce, violin; June Choi Oh, piano; Belle Bulwinkle, piano; Sarah Ganz, soprano; Ava Soifer, piano; Philip Santos, violin; Mack McCray, piano; Mike Greensill, piano; Ron McFarland, piano; Emil Miland, 'cello; Bob Calonico, clarinet; Wesla Whitfield, soprano; David Goldblatt, 'cello
A group of the Bay Area's finest musicians, both classical and jazz, will salute Ron McFarland on his 80th birthday, with performances of his rich and expressive music. Works include The Audition of Molly Bloom, Les Hommages, Dreams, Four Songs in Blue, Sonata for Violin & Piano and Serenade for Piano, Violin and ‘Cello.
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Ron McFarland & Friends
80th Birthday Celebration
Donna Bruno, mezzo-soprano; Kelly Leo-Pearce, violin; June Choi Oh, piano; Belle Bulwinkle, piano; Sarah Ganz, soprano; Ava Soifer, piano; Philip Santos, violin; Mack McCray, piano; Mike Greensill, piano; Ron McFarland, piano; Emil Miland, 'cello; Bob Calonico, clarinet; Wesla Whitfield, soprano; David Goldblatt, 'cello
A group of the Bay Area's finest musicians, both classical and jazz, will salute Ron McFarland on his 80th birthday, with performances of his rich and expressive music. Works include The Audition of Molly Bloom, Les Hommages, Dreams, Four Songs in Blue, Sonata for Violin & Piano and Serenade for Piano, Violin and ‘Cello.
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FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2008 AT 8:00PM
Primavera Italiana: the spring festival of Italian new music
Fabrizio Ottaviucci
Fabrizio Ottaviucci, piano
Fabrizio Ottaviucci is well known for his involvement in contemporary and experimental music, and since 1986 has collaborated intensively with Markus Stockhausen. For this concert, he presents a program of works by Ivan Vandor, Alberto Caprioli, Gilberto Cappelli, Tonino Tesei, Fernando Mencherini and Nicola Sani.
This concert is co-presented with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of San Francisco
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Primavera Italiana: the spring festival of Italian new music
Fabrizio Ottaviucci
Fabrizio Ottaviucci, piano
Fabrizio Ottaviucci is well known for his involvement in contemporary and experimental music, and since 1986 has collaborated intensively with Markus Stockhausen. For this concert, he presents a program of works by Ivan Vandor, Alberto Caprioli, Gilberto Cappelli, Tonino Tesei, Fernando Mencherini and Nicola Sani.
This concert is co-presented with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of San Francisco
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SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2008 AT 4:00PM
Primavera Italiana: the spring festival of Italian new music
Stefano Scodanibbio & sfSound: Labore navigacionis
Stefano Scodanibbio, composer & doublebass
Composer and contrabassist Stefano Scodanibbio is prominently linked to the renaissance of the double bass, with works written for him by composers such as Ferneyhough, Frith, Sciarrino and Xenakis. Today he is joined by sfSound for a concert of his works, including the Bay Area premieres of Mas lugares (on Monteverdi’s Madrigali) for String Quartet and Labore navigacionis for two pianos, along with other works.
This concert is co-presented with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of San Francisco.
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Primavera Italiana: the spring festival of Italian new music
Stefano Scodanibbio & sfSound: Labore navigacionis
Stefano Scodanibbio, composer & doublebass
Composer and contrabassist Stefano Scodanibbio is prominently linked to the renaissance of the double bass, with works written for him by composers such as Ferneyhough, Frith, Sciarrino and Xenakis. Today he is joined by sfSound for a concert of his works, including the Bay Area premieres of Mas lugares (on Monteverdi’s Madrigali) for String Quartet and Labore navigacionis for two pianos, along with other works.
This concert is co-presented with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of San Francisco.
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FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2008 AT 8:00PM
Edmund Welles: the bass clarinet quartet
Cornelius Boots; Aaron Novik; Jeff Anderle; Jonathan Russell, bass clarinets
Drawing virtuosic precision from the classical realm; innovation and texture from jazz; and power, rhythm and overall perspective from rock and metal, Edmund Welles has the distinction of being the world’s only original, composing band of four bass clarinetists. Their program features Apicultural Excursion Parts I & II by Cornelius Boots and other heavy chamber music.
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Edmund Welles: the bass clarinet quartet
Cornelius Boots; Aaron Novik; Jeff Anderle; Jonathan Russell, bass clarinets
Drawing virtuosic precision from the classical realm; innovation and texture from jazz; and power, rhythm and overall perspective from rock and metal, Edmund Welles has the distinction of being the world’s only original, composing band of four bass clarinetists. Their program features Apicultural Excursion Parts I & II by Cornelius Boots and other heavy chamber music.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 2008 AT 8:00PM
Far Out Friends: Poetry & Music
Gary Snyder & the Galax Quartet
Gary Snyder, poet; Karen Clark, contralto; David Wilson, violin; Cynthia Freivogel, violin; Roy Wheldon, viola da gamba; David Morris, 'cello
Join this celebration of new song premieres with Gary Snyder and composers Fred Frith, Allaudin Mathieu, Robert Morris and Roy Whelden, all on hand to honor the half-century of Snyder’s publishing career. Karen Clark’s evocative contralto with the rich baroque strings of the Galax Quartet bring the Beat renaissance into the 21st century.
Additional support for this concert provided by the American Composers Forum, the East Bay Fund for the Arts, the Zellerbach Family Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
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Far Out Friends: Poetry & Music
Gary Snyder & the Galax Quartet
Gary Snyder, poet; Karen Clark, contralto; David Wilson, violin; Cynthia Freivogel, violin; Roy Wheldon, viola da gamba; David Morris, 'cello
Join this celebration of new song premieres with Gary Snyder and composers Fred Frith, Allaudin Mathieu, Robert Morris and Roy Whelden, all on hand to honor the half-century of Snyder’s publishing career. Karen Clark’s evocative contralto with the rich baroque strings of the Galax Quartet bring the Beat renaissance into the 21st century.
Additional support for this concert provided by the American Composers Forum, the East Bay Fund for the Arts, the Zellerbach Family Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
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SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2008 AT 8:00PM
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Mark Alburger, Music Director
Music for the people, by the people! SFCCO brings new music by living composers to the public like no one else! Since it's inception in 2002, The Composers Orchestra has premiered more new music than any other ensemble in the Bay Area with a surprising diversity of styles influenced by as much by pop and world as post-modernist and minimalist music.
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San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Mark Alburger, Music Director
Music for the people, by the people! SFCCO brings new music by living composers to the public like no one else! Since it's inception in 2002, The Composers Orchestra has premiered more new music than any other ensemble in the Bay Area with a surprising diversity of styles influenced by as much by pop and world as post-modernist and minimalist music.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2008 AT 7:00PM
The Bay Area Rainbow Symphony
Please Note Special Time
Dr. Jay Pierson, Artistic Director; Karen Thielen, harp; Victor Villareal, flute
The newly formed Bay Area Rainbow Symphony presents its inaugural concert with an exciting program of music by Purcell, Mouret, Schubert and Delibes. The centerpiece of the concert will be the haunting and beautiful Andantino from Mozart’s Concerto for harp and flute.
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The Bay Area Rainbow Symphony
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Dr. Jay Pierson, Artistic Director; Karen Thielen, harp; Victor Villareal, flute
The newly formed Bay Area Rainbow Symphony presents its inaugural concert with an exciting program of music by Purcell, Mouret, Schubert and Delibes. The centerpiece of the concert will be the haunting and beautiful Andantino from Mozart’s Concerto for harp and flute.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2008 AT 8:00PM
REDSHIFT
Emily Popham, violin; Andie Springer, violin/viola; Jeff Anderle, clarinets; Rose Bellini, 'cello; Isabelle O'Connell, piano
REDSHIFT is a young, dynamic ensemble with a commitment to performing contemporary music in distinctive venues. They will draw on vast experience performing all types of classical music—from the traditional to the wildly experimental—in a program featuring works by Belinda Reynolds, Evan Ziporyn, Donnacha Dennehy, James Holt, Marc Mellits and Paul Moravec.
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REDSHIFT
Emily Popham, violin; Andie Springer, violin/viola; Jeff Anderle, clarinets; Rose Bellini, 'cello; Isabelle O'Connell, piano
REDSHIFT is a young, dynamic ensemble with a commitment to performing contemporary music in distinctive venues. They will draw on vast experience performing all types of classical music—from the traditional to the wildly experimental—in a program featuring works by Belinda Reynolds, Evan Ziporyn, Donnacha Dennehy, James Holt, Marc Mellits and Paul Moravec.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2008 AT 8:00PM
Anahata Nad of the West: Solo Violin Works by Bach & Ysaÿe
Paul Yeager, violin
Sonata No. 1, Op. 27 'to Joseph Szigeti' and Sonata No. 3, Op. 27 'to Georges Enesco' by Eugène Ysaÿe; Sonata No. 3 in C major and Partita No. 2 in D major by J. S. Bach
Paul Yeager has been studying the works of Bach and Ysaye since prior to puberty. His unique interpretations are based on radical reappraisals of commonly held musicological notions. These interpretations are influenced first and foremost by what he believes to be the true mystic heart -the Anahada Nad or 'the sound of the heart', which is spiritually imprinted as the True Self of this glorious music, untouched and untainted by the dualistic lenses of history and institutionalized critique. He finds that to embody and transmit this True Self of the music, that one must first be living the spiritual journey, persistently and earnestly seeking to be forever plugged into that same stream of eternally radiant divine consciousness and equipoise in which he finds these composers must have dwelt.
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Anahata Nad of the West: Solo Violin Works by Bach & Ysaÿe
Paul Yeager, violin
Sonata No. 1, Op. 27 'to Joseph Szigeti' and Sonata No. 3, Op. 27 'to Georges Enesco' by Eugène Ysaÿe; Sonata No. 3 in C major and Partita No. 2 in D major by J. S. Bach
Paul Yeager has been studying the works of Bach and Ysaye since prior to puberty. His unique interpretations are based on radical reappraisals of commonly held musicological notions. These interpretations are influenced first and foremost by what he believes to be the true mystic heart -the Anahada Nad or 'the sound of the heart', which is spiritually imprinted as the True Self of this glorious music, untouched and untainted by the dualistic lenses of history and institutionalized critique. He finds that to embody and transmit this True Self of the music, that one must first be living the spiritual journey, persistently and earnestly seeking to be forever plugged into that same stream of eternally radiant divine consciousness and equipoise in which he finds these composers must have dwelt.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 2008 AT 8:00PM
Sandro Russo
Sandro Russo, piano
Acclaimed for his profound sense of poetry and distinctive style, Sandro Russo presents a program including a performance combining both the 1913 and 1931 versions of Rachmaninoff’s Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36, and other works and transcriptions by Bach, Liszt, Chopin and Taneyev.
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Sandro Russo
Sandro Russo, piano
Acclaimed for his profound sense of poetry and distinctive style, Sandro Russo presents a program including a performance combining both the 1913 and 1931 versions of Rachmaninoff’s Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36, and other works and transcriptions by Bach, Liszt, Chopin and Taneyev.
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