The Bay Area debut of the Dresher Ensemble’s newest chamber music grouping—the Double Duo—features a program of challenging and exciting contemporary acoustic, electro-acoustic and invented instrument compositions by Paul Dresher, Sam Adams, and Martin Bresnick. The Double Duo features Dresher performing on electric guitar and his remarkable 15 foot-long invented stringed instrument, the Quadrachord, long-time […]
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The Paul Dresher Ensemble Double Duo
The Bay Area debut of the Dresher Ensemble’s newest chamber music grouping—the Double Duo—features a program of challenging and exciting contemporary acoustic, electro-acoustic and invented instrument compositions by Paul Dresher, Sam Adams, and Martin Bresnick. The Double Duo features Dresher performing on electric guitar and his remarkable 15 foot-long invented stringed instrument, the Quadrachord, long-time […]
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The guitarist and composer Andrew McKenna Lee makes his San Francisco debut, performing original compositions for guitar in addition to works by Leo Brouwer, Lennox Berkeley, and others. Praised in TimeOut New York for his “awe-inspiring displays of agility†and The New York Times for his “energetic playing,†Mr. Lee has been described by eMusic […]
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San Francisco Choral Artists will perform new American choral music in a program May 18 presented by Composers, Inc. Magen Solomon directs the 24-voice semi-profession choir, now celebrating their 25th anniversary, in a program that includes Frank La Roccas 2005 Meistersings Choral Competition winning Miserere, an a cappella setting of Psalm 51 in Latin. Pianist […]
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