Saturday, November 8, 2008

November 8, 2008 - Moving Targets



SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director

Moving Targets

Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 8 pm
Old First Presbyterian Church
1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109

Martha Stoddard,  conducting

Program

Gary Friedman
     Octet for Winds    
          Meanderings
          On The Go

Davide Verotta
     Sinfonia Per Orchestra da Camera  

Lisa Scola Prosek
     Badessa
          I. La Badessa
          II. Little Fast Ones  

Intermission

Sheli Nan
     Signatures in Time and Place  
          I. Romanesque
          II. The Corinthian Order

Clare Twohy
     untitled  

Martha Stoddard
     In Search of Planet X  

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Flute
Bruce Salvisberg
Harry Bernstein

Oboe
Phil Freihofner
Gary Friedman

Clarinet
Rachel Condry
David Treganowen

Bassoon
Michael Cooke
Michael Garvey
Lori Garvey

French Horn
Cathleen Torres
Frank Lahorgue

Trumpet
Pierce Yamaoka

Piano
Davide Verotta

Percussion
Victor Flaviani
Anne Szabla
Davide Verotta
Alexis Alrich

Violin I
Monika Gruber

Violin II
Hande Erdem

Viola
Clare Twohy

Cello
Dan Reiter
Moses Sedler

Bass
Ellen Lin

Saturday, June 7, 2008

June 7, 2008 - Variations on the Ghost of Sousa...


SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 1, 2008

CONTACT:
SFCCO (707) 451-0714
mus21stc@aol.com

SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PRESENTS

VARIATIONS ON THE GHOST OF SOUSA DANCING

8:00PM, SATURDAY, JUNE 7,
OLD FIRST CHURCH,
1725 SACRAMENTO STREET (AT VAN NESS), SAN FRANCISCO

SAN FRANCISCO AND WORLD PREMIERES OF WORKS BY

ALLAN CROSSMAN,
GARY FRIEDMAN,
LOREN JONES, AND

A COLLABORATIVE COMPOSITION BY

MARK ALBURGER,
ALEXIS ALRICH,
JOHN BEEMAN,
HARRY BERNSTEIN,
MICHAEL COOKE,
DAVID GRAVES,
LOREN JONES, AND
ERLING WOLD

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1, 2008 -- Democrats against Republicans; Democrats against Democrats -- perhaps the best thing we can do in these contentious times is agree to disagree, and that's what the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra does best, as its members present, at 8pm on June 7 in Old First Church (1725 Sacramento Street, SF), Variations on the Ghost of Sousa Dancing, an evening of cheeky variance and the state of our unions.

The centerpiece will be an eight-composer collaboration, The Sousa Variations, based on John Philip Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever, which will be given a topsy-turvy treatment -- literally turned upside-down -- in Michael Cooke's Stripes and Stars. "I like it better inverted," notes the composer, and you may, too. Meanwhile, Loren Jones brings the march to Iraq with the addition of Middle Eastern modes and doumbek drum, in a work that he maintains was informed by a co-collaborator named John Philip Sousa Khan.

The conspiracy continues in David Graves's sepulchral Sousa Variance, a darkly meditative turn in tandem with Erling Wold's freshly-inspired On the Death of David Blakely. If some honor and tweak the music, others obliterate it, as Mark Alburger's double-homage to the March King and Charles Ives in Variations on Americana. And, for true mystery, marching orders by Alexis Alrich, John Beeman, and Harry Bernstein will sure to inspire.

America. Gotta love it. Or march out and leave it -- for Canada in the spirit of Coastal Ghost, where Allan Crossman provides northern chills and thrills on a Nova Scotian legend -- or even farther afield for China, in Gary Friedman's Olympian Concerto for Erhu and Orchestra.

As for those who stay, there's never a time to be satisfied with received norms, as Jones will remind us further in Haight-Ashberry and The Castro, two movements of his historic Dancing on the Brink of the World.

Maybe music can change the state of the universe... Can't we all... just... get along?

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TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's Variations on the Ghost of Sousa Dancing on June 7, 8.00 p.m. at Old First Church, 1725 Sacramento Street (at Van Ness), San Francisco, are $15 general, $12 students and seniors. Tickets are available through the Old First Church Box Office at (415) 474-1608 and at the door. For more information, please call Old First Church Box Office, or the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra at (707) 451-0714, or visit the organizations' respective websites at www.oldfirstconcerts.org and www.sfcco.org. Tickets are also available at www.ticketweb.com. Other links to the show may be found at myspace.com/sfcco, myspace.com/blackhatrecords, myspace.com/erlingwold, myspace.com/markalburger, and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com.

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CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE:

OLD FIRST CONCERTS PRESENTS

Saturday, June 7, at 8:00 p.m.

Old First Church
1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness
San Francisco, CA
(415) 474-1608

VARIATIONS ON THE GHOST OF SOUSA DANCING
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra

Program:

Coastal Ghost (Allan Crossman)
Theme and Variations for Erhu and Orchestra (Gary Friedman)
Dancing on the Brink of the World: Haight Ashberry and The Castro (Loren Jones)

and

The Sousa Variations

an eight-movement collaboration consisting of

Variations on Americana (Mark Alburger)
Stripes and Stars (Michael Cooke)
Sousa Variance (David Graves)
Stars and Stripes for Desert (Loren Jones)
On the Death of David Blakely (Erling Wold)
and music of Alexis Alrich,
John Beeman, and
Harry Bernstein

Tickets:$15 general, $12 students and seniors, available through the Old First Church Box Office at (415) 474-1608, at the door, and at www.ticketweb.com.

More information and pictures at sfcco.org and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com

Saturday, March 8, 2008

March 8, 2008 - March Madness


SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director
March Madness
8pm, March 8, Old First Church, 1725 Sacramento Street (at Van Ness), San Francisco, CA
Mark Alburger, John Kendall Bailey, and Martha Stoddard, conducting


Program

Philip Freihofner - The Bell Field

Martha Stoddard - A Little Trip to Outer Space

Lisa Scola Prosek - Chain Saw

Alexis Alrich - Fragile Forests: II Cambodia

Intermission

Dan Reiter - Toccata and Fugue

Michael Cooke - Sun and Moon

Erling Wold - Mordake

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SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:
February 10, 2008 SFCCO (707) 451-0714 mus21stc@aol.com

SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PRESENTS
"MARCH MADNESS"
8:00PM, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, OLD FIRST CHURCH,
1725 SACRAMENTO STREET (AT VAN NESS), SAN FRANCISCO

SAN FRANCISCO AND WORLD PREMIERES OF WORKS BY
ALEXIS ALRICH, MICHAEL COOKE, PHILIP FREIHOFNER,
MARTHA STODDARD, DAN REITER, AND ERLING WOLD


SAN FRANCISCO, February 8, 2007 -- Lunacy. Spaciness. Taking 20 years to write a piece. Thinking that music will save the planet. Having a face in the back of one's head. Suicidal thoughts.
Why do we do what we do? Because we can't do otherwise?
One thing's for sure: it's a crazy world. So come celebrate the craziness with Alexis Alrich, Michael Cooke, Philip Freihofner, Dan Reiter, Martha Stoddard, Erling Wold, and the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra as they present March Madness -- 8pm, Saturday, March 8, at Old First Church, 1725 Sacramento Street, in San Francisco.

Michael Cooke's Sun and Moon is a dizzying take on time and place, with members of the orchestra performing spacilly and spatially at the point-and-click discretion of Music Director Mark Alburger. Martha Stoddard, as Guest Conductor, will take the ensemble even farther out in A Little Trip to Outer Space where reality has lost its bearings.

The entire orchestra will evaporate in the clangor of metal as Philip Freihofner re-invents sanity in The Bell Field, while Dan Reiter's Toccata and Fugue will send minds reeling under the direction of Associate Conductor John Kendall Bailey toward a reckoning with Johann Sebastian Bach.

Farthest afield on earth will be Alexis Alrich's Fragile Forests: II Cambodia, where East and West consciousnesses collide in the loveliest possible manner. And, as a final coup-de-grace Erling Wold will evoke the diabolical in Mordake Suite No. 2, in hint of his mad opera to be premiered later in the year.

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TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's "March Madness" on March 8, at 8.00 p.m. at Old First Church, 1725 Sacramento Street (at Van Ness), San Francisco are $15 general, $12 students and seniors. Tickets are available through the Old First Church Box Office at (415) 474-1608 and at the door. For more information, please call Old First Church Box Office, or the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra at (707) 451-0714, or visit the organizations' respective websites at www.sfcco.org and www.oldfirstconcerts.org. Tickets are also available at www.ticketweb.com. Other links to the show may be found at myspace.com/sfcco, myspace.com/blackhatrecords, myspace.com/erlingwold, myspace.com/markalburger, and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com
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CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE:
OLD FIRST CONCERTS PRESENTS
Saturday, March 8, at 8:00 p.m. Old First Church
1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness
San Francisco, CA
(415) 474-1608

MARCH MADNESS
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra

Program:

Alexis Alrich - Fragile Forests: II Cambodia
Michael Cooke - Sun and Moon
Philip Freihofner - The Bell Field
Dan Reiter - Toccata and Fugue
Martha Stoddard - A Little Trip to Outer Space
Erling Wold - Mordake

Tickets:$15 general, $12 students and seniors, available through the Old First Church Box Office at (415) 474-1608, at the door, and at www.ticketweb.com.

More information at sfcco.org and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com


Flute

Bruce Salvisberg
Harry Bernstein
Martha Stoddard


Oboe

Philip Freihofner
Sarah Rathke


Clarinet

Rachel Condry


Bassoon

Michael Cooke
Michael Garvey
Lori Garvey
Karla Ekholm


Trumpet

Josh Silva


Horn

David Sprung


Vocalist

Charya Burt


Piano

Alexis Alrich


Synthesizer

Erling Wold


Percussion

Victor Flaviani
Anne Szalba
Delphean Quan
Greg Simmons


Violin I

Monika Gruber
Clare Twohy


Violin II

Hande Erdem
Mari Morikawa


Viola

Charith Premawardhana
Katrina Wreede


Cello

Dan Reiter
Paul Rhodes
Beth Snellings


Bass

Richard Duke


Endowers

David Graves
Lisa Scola Prosek


Recording Engineer

Karen Stackpole


Rehearsal 1, February 28, 2008, Potrero Hill Neighborhood House Theatre, SF



Scola Prosek, Stoddard, Condry, Szalba, Salvisberg, Simmons, Freihofner, Rathke, Sprung, Erdem, Morikawa


Stoddard, Condry, Salvisberg, Szalba, Freihofner


Bernstein, Duke


Simmons, Salvisberg, Freihofner, Rathke, Sprung


Erdem, Morikawa, Condry, Silva, Wold, Premawardhana


Morikawa, Condry, Graves, Szalba, Ekholm, Sprung, Silva


Ekholm, Cooke, M. Garvey, L. Garvey, Duke


Sprung, Ekholm, Premawardhana, Cooke, M. Garvey, L. Garvey, Alrich


L. Garvey, Duke, Reiter


Sprung, Wold


L. Garvey, Rhodes, Kendall Bailey, Gruber, Premawardhana, Erdem, M. Garvey, Quan, Silva, Condry, Salvisberg, Cooke


Szalba, Simmons


Quan, Szalba, Simmons


Simmons, Quan, Szalba


Gruber, Salvisberg, Scola Prosek, Freihofner, Erdem, Morikawa, Simmons



Erdem, Szalba, Morikawa, Sprung, Silva, Ekholm, Premawardhana, M. Garvey


Szalba, Premawardhana, Simmons, Ekholm


Cooke, Wold, Rhodes, M. Garvey, Reiter, Snellings


Duke, Reiter, Stoddard


Silva, Alrich

Scola Prosek, Silva

Morikawa, M. Garvey, Premawardhana, L. Garvey, Erdem, Bernstein, Rhodes, Duke, Snellings, Reiter, Gruber, Kendall Bailey


Kendall Bailey, Simmons


Scola Prosek, Szalba, Wold


Erdem, Duke, Reiter, Stoddard, Rhodes, Gruber


Freihofner, Sprung, Wold, Condry, Silva, Erdem


Salvisberg, Freihofner, Simmons, Erdem, Gruber, Morikawa, Ekholm, Premawardhana, Cooke, Kendall Bailey


Wold, Scola Prosek

Rehearsal 2, March 2, 2008, Potrero Hill Neighborhood House Theatre, SF


Freihofner, Rathke, Sprung, Erdem, Twohy, Cooke, Wreede, M. Garvey, Premawardhana, Gruber, L. Garvey, Bailey


Tom Prosek, Flaviani

Rehearsal 4 (Dress), Old First Church, SF


Bernstein, Szalba, Salvisberg, Freihofner



Bernstein, Gruber, Alrich, Twohy, Flaviani, Erdem, Quan



Freihofner, Erdem, Rathke, Morikawa, Szalba, Ekholm, Premawardhana, Cooke



Freihofner, Condry, Sprung, Silver, Cooke, M. Garvey


Twohy, Alrich, Flaviani, Erdem, Freihofner, Quan, Morikawa, Szalba, Condry



Erdem, Spurng, Cooke, Morikawa, M. Garvey, Premawardhana



Alrich, Flaviani


Reiter, Duke


Twohy, Bernstein, Morikawa, M. Garvey, L. Garvey, Premawardhana, Rhodes, Snellings, Gruber, Bailey


M. Garvey, Erdem, Premawardhana, Duke, Reiter, Stoddard, Gruber


Salvisberg, Freihofner, Ekholm, Sprung, Cooke, Bernstein, Erdem, M. Garvey, Morikawa, Twohy, L. Garvey, Premawardhana, Rhodes, Snellings

Concert Warm-Up, March 8, 2008


Szalba, Salvisberg, Freihofner, Condry


Ekholm, Sprung, Silver


L. Garvey, Stackpole


Harriet March Page, Burt, Alrich


Flaviani, Burt, Salvisberg, Szalba, Freihofner


Wold, Bailey


Alrich, Quan



Alrich, Gruber, Twohy, Szalba, Morikawa, Cooke, Sprung, Premawardhana


Premawardhana, Reiter, Duke