Our program features two Czech masterworks for piano quartet. A little over fifty years and two world wars separate Dvořák’s Piano Quartet in E-flat, Op. 87 (1889), and Bohuslav Martinů’s only Piano Quartet (1942), but they share a Czech spirit. Closing out our year of celebrating Gabriel Fauré will be a performance of one of the composer’s last works, the Second Cello Sonata, Op. 117 (1921).
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Orphic Percussion is a Bay Area based quartet with a passion for commissioning new music, whose musical selections will leave you electrified, taking you on the journey of bringing a new piece from ink on paper to life on the stage.
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Award-winning new music chamber group Ensemble for These Times performs In Motion, a music conversation around motion, including the World Premieres of three newly commissioned works by Ursula Kwong-Brown, Darian Donovan Thomas, and Mary Bianco, alongsde works by Benjamin Britten, York Bowen, Lisa Bielawa, Vivian Fung, Sage Shurman, and Zhou Tian.
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The Voice of the Piano presents six diverse works by American women composers from the lush early 20th century sounds of Amy Beach’s Improvisations and the angular modern Sonata by Louise Talma, to Miriam Gideon’s Impressionistic and atonal Sonata and the showcase toccata by Joan Tower, Ivory and Ebony. Frances Brouwer’s two pieces, Flight and Fear of the Deep, are short expressive works by a young composer still in college, and The Caryatids is a lyric and powerful work by renowned California composer Alexis Alrich.
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Soprano Heidi Moss Erickson and pianist John Parr perform a multi-faceted program of Ravel, Fauré and Heidi’s trademark Strauss, culminating in soprano excerpts of Kurt Erickson’s Each Moment Radiant in its West Coast Première.
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