sfSound – September 20, 2013

Canonic Suite (1939), ‘Cello Sonata (1948), Canon for Three Equal Instruments “In Memoriam Igor Stravinsky” (1971), Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi (1984), Inner Song (1992), Tempo e Tempi (1998), Hiyoku (2001), Steep Steps (2001), Figment II (2001), Intermittences (2007), Retracing III (2009), Rigmarole (2011) by Elliott CarterOne of the most exciting and fiercely innovative contemporary music organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area, sfSound is a unique collective of composer/performers that performs its own compositions, commissions new work, performs avant-garde repertory and develops highly creative “radical transcriptions” of modern masterpieces. Since 2003, their home concert series (sfSoundSeries) has been presenting programs that explore the continuum between notated composition and free improvisation, theatrical works, works for small and large ensembles, solo performances, conceptual works, live electronic music and acousmatic sound diffusion (most notably with their annual San Francisco Tape Music Festival), and a plethora of new works written and improvised by members of the ensemble. For this concert, sfSoundGroup performs a program dedicated to the memory of Elliott Carter, with selections of solo and chamber works spanning his entire career. sfsound.org