Different Strokes
A Very Unusual Jazz Duo
Continue readingJeff Sanford’s Cartoon Jazz Band
Dick Mathias, Scott Petersen, Harvey Robb, Jeff Sanford, horns; John Capobianco, John Hunt, Rolf Johnson, Rick Walsh, Eric Wayne, brass; Randy Johnson, banjo, guitar, vocals, doombeck, xylophone; Marianne Addington, piano; Don Bennett, bass; Mark Rosengarden, drumsIf you grew up watching Looney Tunes cartoons, you were, noted the Chronicle’s Jesse Hamlin, “weaned on the fun-house music […]
Continue readingMelody of China with the Del Sol String Quartet
Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter by Kui Dong; Impromptu by Duo HuangFacing army tanks in Tiananmen Square in 1989 in defiance of the People’s Republic of China, student composer Kui Dong never dreamed she would, 15 years later, be a PhD in music composition and professor at Dartmouth. Tonight she and her composer husband Duo […]
Continue readingSan Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra with special guests Schola Cantorum
Augmented by the considerable vocal talents of the Schola Cantorum of San Francisco under the direction of John Renke, the SFCCO celebrates its Season Finale with a presentation of new and original works for chorus and orchestra by Mark Alburger, Alexis Alrich, John Beeman, Michael Cooke, Lisa Scola Prosek, Erling Wold and others. This powerful […]
Continue readingStephen Framil, ‘cello
THE COMMEMORATIVE JOHN BODO ‘CELLO CONCERT
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