_____SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA___

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