| Dec 7, 2008 4:00pm - 6:00pm | San Francisco Contemporary Music Players: Contemporary Insights | San Francisco CA | Contemporary Insights: Music and Conversation Each Contemporary Insights event focuses on a single piece from the following Monday’s subscription concert. Composers and musicians talk about the piece, and the musicians demonstrate parts of it. After performing the work in its entirety, the musicians will elicit reactions, answer questions, and dialog with the audience. Share wine and hors d’oeuvres afterwards. Program: Pierre Boulez, Le Marteau sans maître for mezzo-soprano, flute, guitar, viola and three percussion Widely regarded as Boulez’s first masterpiece, this celebrated, rarely performed work uses familiar Western instruments to create Eastern sounds that would have been exotic to Boulez’s first audiences. Music Director David Milnes and the ensemble, along with guest mezzo-soprano Janna Baty, perform and discuss this piece in the beautifully designed and acoustically superb Presidio Interfaith Chapel. Presidio Interfaith Chapel: 130 Fisher Loop, Presidio www.sanfranciscoweddings.org Suggested donation: $10 per event. |
| Dec 8, 2008 8:00pm - 10:00pm | San Francisco Contemporary Music Players: Furious Craft | San Francisco CA | Program: Luca Francesconi, A fuoco (1995) (U.S. premiere) Kaija Saariaho, Sept Papillons (2000) Zhou Long, Wild Grass (2002) Pierre Boulez, Le Marteau sans maître (1955) Featuring: Janna Baty, mezzo-soprano Leighton Fong, cello Stephen Harrison, cello Four works of intensity and craftsmanship warm this winter concert. David Milnes and the players delve into a rarely performed masterpiece by Pierre Boulez and a smoldering work by Luca Francesconi, featuring new ensemble member David Tanenbaum on guitar. Boulez’s unusual composition, for flute, guitar, viola, three percussion and mezzo-soprano, is widely regarded as his first great work. Complementing the ensemble pieces are two cello solos that ponder life’s ephemeral nature. There will be a pre-concert talk before the concert. Guests TBA. $28 general, $23 senior, $10 student Order on our tickets page or call 415-978-ARTS (2787) Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum 701 Mission Street at 3rd Street, San Francisco Pre-concert talk begins at 7:15 pm. |
| Dec 12, 2008 8:00pm - 10:00pm | Monterey Symphony | Carmel, CA |
with the Monterey Symphony at the Carmel Mission. |
| Dec 14, 2008 3:00pm - 5:00pm | Monterey Symphony | Gonzalez, CA |
with the Monterey Symphony at the Blackstone Winery. |
| Feb 23, 2009 8:00pm - 8:00pm | San Francisco Contemporary Music Players: Things Fall From The Sky | San Francisco CA | Program: Roscoe Mitchell, WRC2A, Opus 1 (2008) (world premiere) Roscoe Mitchell, Bells for New Orleans (2006) (world premiere) Terry Riley, Quando cosas malas caen del cielo (2003) Lee Hyla, Polish Folk Songs (2007) Cindy Cox, [new work] (2008) (world premiere) Featuring: Roscoe Mitchell, saxophone David Tanenbaum, guitar William Winant, percussion With three world premieres, including a Roscoe Mitchell/William Winant duet, and a David Tanenbaum guitar solo, this is sure to be a memorable evening. Cindy Cox and Roscoe Mitchell (who made his name as a jazz saxophonist with the Art Ensemble of Chicago before shifting his focus to chamber music composition) bring us three much-anticipated new works. Lee Hyla and Terry Riley take up the populist point of view with a boisterous, unpredictable collage of Polish folk music and an Iraq War protest piece played on the National Steel guitar. $28 general, $23 senior, $10 student Herbst Theatre 401 Van Ness at McAllister Street, San Francisco Pre-concert talk begins at 7:15 pm. |
| Mar 7, 2009 8:00pm - 10:00pm | San Francisco Conservatory of Music: Blueprint Series | San Francisco CA | Program includes: Terry Riley: Y Bolanzero David Tanenbaum conducting the SFCM Guitar Ensemble San Francisco Conservatory of Music 50 Oak Street San Francisco, CA 94102 |