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SAN FRANCISCO<br />
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA<br />
Mark Alburger, Music Director<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Fellow Travelers</span></i><br />
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8pm, Saturday, November 9, 2013<br />
Old First Presbyterian Church, 1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, CA<br />
Mark Alburger and John Kendall Bailey, conducting<br />
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Program<br />
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Davide Verotta<br />
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<i>Invitation</i><br />
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Davide Verotta, Piano<br />
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Philip Freihofner<br />
<i>Filled with Moonlight</i><br />
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Philip Freihofner, Oboe<br />
Davide Verotta, Piano<br />
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David Sprung<br />
<i>Haiku</i> for Tenor, Wind Quintet, and Piano (2013)<br />
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Michael Desnoyers, Tenor<br />
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Lisa Scola Prosek <br />
<i>The Lariat</i><br />
I. El Vaquero <br />
II. Las Otno Ayam<br />
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Desirae Harp, Soprano<br />
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Eduard Prosek <br />
<i>The Curs</i>e (2013)<br />
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Eduard Prosek, Voice and Guitar<br />
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Mark Alburger <br />
<i>Double Piano Concerto ("Fellow Travellers"),</i> Op. 204 (2012)<br />
I. Allegro troppo<br />
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Eytan and Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman, Piano<br />
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<b>SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA</b><br />
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Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor <br />
Erling Wold Associate Music Director<br />
John Kendall Bailey Associate Conductor<br />
Martha Stoddard Associate Conductor<br />
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Flute <br />
Bruce Salvisberg<br />
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Oboe<br />
Phil Freihofner<br />
Peter Lemberg<br />
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Clarinet<br />
Rachel Condry<br />
Michael Kimbell<br />
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Bassoon<br />
Michael Cooke<br />
Michael Garvey<br />
Lori Garvey<br />
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Trumpet<br />
Eduard Prosek<br />
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Horn<br />
Brian Holmes<br />
Jan Pusina<br />
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Soprano<br />
Desirae Harp<br />
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Tenor<br />
Michael Desnoyers<br />
Mark Alburger<br />
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Baritone<br />
Eduard Prosek<br />
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Guitar<br />
Eduard Prosek<br />
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Harp<br />
Samantha Garvey<br />
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Piano<br />
Miles Graber<br />
Davide Verotta<br />
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Percussion<br />
Victor Flaviano<br />
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Violin I<br />
Monika Gruber<br />
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Violin II<br />
Harry Bernstein<br />
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Viola<br />
Nansamba Ssensalo<br />
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Cello<br />
Ariella Hyman<br />
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Bass<br />
John Beeman<br />
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MARK ALBURGER (b. April 2, 1957, Upper Darby, PA) studied with Gerald Levinson and Joan Panetti at Swarthmore College (B.A.), Karl Kohn at Pomona College, Jules Langert at Dominican University (M.A.), Tom Flaherty and Christopher Yavelow at Claremont Graduate University (Ph.D.), and Terry Riley. He is Founder and Music Director of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra and The Opus Project, Conductor of San Francisco Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions, and Instructor in Music Literature and Theory at Diablo Valley College. As Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music Monthly Journal (21st-centurymusic.com and 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com), Alburger has interviewed many composers, including Charles Amirkhanian, Earle Brown, George Crumb, Alan Hovhaness, Steve Mackey, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, and Steve Reich. He has recently updated and expanded the articles on John Adams and Philip Glass for Grove Online and The Grove Dictionary of American Music, Second Edition. Alburger has been the recipient of many honors, awards, and commissions -- including yearly ASCAP Standard Awards; grants from Meet the Composer, the American Composers Forum, MetLife, and Theatre Bay Area; funding from the Marra, Zellerbach, Hewlett, and Getty Foundations; and performances by ensembles and orchestras throughout the United States. Alburger's concert and dramatic compositions combine atonal, collage, neoclassic, pop, and postminimal sensibilities -- often in overall frameworks troped on pre-existent material. His complete works (220 opus numbers to date, including 16 concerti, 23 operas, nine symphonies, the 12-hour opera-oratorio The Bible, and Day 1-3 of The Decameron) are being issued on recordings from New Music. 500+ videos of his music may be found on the DrMarkAlburger YouTube channel, as well as on many other websites.<br />
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DOUBLE PIANO CONCERTO ("FELLOW TRAVELLERS"), Op. 204, was written for and is dedicated to Eytan and Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman in thanks for their wonderful work with the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra over several years. The piece is mapped over Francis Poulenc's Double Piano Concerto, taking in interlopers from Japanese, Hispanic, minimalist, and rock-n-roll traditions. The first movement features a Dorian pentatonic scale (D E F A B).<br />
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PHILIP FREIHOFNER has been a regularly performing member of SFCCO since 2004. He has a Bachelor's degree in Music from UC Berkeley.<br />
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FILLED WITH MOONLIGHT was written to fulfill a commission for a new duet for oboe and piano by the ensemble Dolci. Oboist Ted Rust and pianist Viva Knight premiered the work December, 2012. The music takes inspiration from the novel Blackberries in the Dream House, by San Francisco poet Diane Frank, a romance set in 1850's Japan. In designing the musical world of this piece, the sources included elements of Japanese music and esthetic theory, of Poulenc's fabulous chamber works for winds and piano, and of the Koto work of Jazz pianist McCoy Tyner.<br />
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EDUARD PROSEK is a 22-year-old Californian native now residing in Brighton, UK. His debut EP California (2012) gained him a strong online following, with its title track receiving over 40,000 YouTube views. Following this initial interest, Prosek's cover of Paul Simon's Homeward Bound was chosen as the soundtrack to a major TV advertisement for Cathedral City last year in the UK taking Prosek to a national audience. His latest release, Willow Tree, showcases his impressive abilities as composer and arranger. A full UK tour and album are set for release in 2014.<br />
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THE CURSE is the second track on Prosek's newest EP, Willow Tree, released September, 2013.<br />
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We're all born innocent, it's how you lose it,<br />
that keeps me interested in you<br />
and you speak so softly I don't catch a thing but,<br />
when you take a breath, the angels sing.<br />
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So I'll take it as it comes, win or lose I'd<br />
rather nothing at all, then to choose<br />
between the one I love, or my instincts<br />
so I'll keep my mouth shut, and keep listening.<br />
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She's a blessing but, just like any curse she's<br />
so beautiful it, makes it so much worse.<br />
She's a blessing but, just like anything you<br />
never have enough, and when you do it's all too much<br />
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LISA SCOLA PROSEK is a graduate of Princeton University with a degree in Music Composition, her teachers include Edward Cone, Milton Babbitt, Lukas Foss, Margherita Kalil, and Gaetano Giani- Luporini. Scola Prosek has composed and premiered seven operas with librettos in Italian and English.<br />
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Excerpts from THE LARIAT, a new opera by Scola Prosek, based on Jaime De Angulo’s 1927 novella, with a poetic libretto in Esselen by Louise Miranda Ramirez, Tribal Chair of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation, sung by Desirae Harp. The work will premiere in 2014, at the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York, and in 2015 with the San Francisco International Arts Festival. The piece is made possible by a grant from Theatre Bay Area.<br />
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Bear, you have taken my love Koltala name yukla nish kolo! I cannot live without him, Eni anpapiake cha’a anhuyake huniki! Creator, take me too. Las Otno Ayam yukla nicha. <br />
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Louise Miranda Ramirez is Esselen, Chumash and Yaqui. She is an enrolled member of the Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen Nation, from the Greater Monterey County and the current Tribal Chairwoman. Her goal as a linguist is to work to return the Esselen language, which she says, “Has been sleeping for over 100 years.” Supported by the California Indigenous Language Survival (ACILS), she attended the Breath of Life Program and Language is Life Conference. ACILS supports research, for California Indian Languages with no speakers that is held at the University of Berkeley. In collaboration with linguist David L. Shaul she worked at reviving the Esselen Language and created a dictionary translated from oral stories and prayers. She has subsequently made pamphlets and books in the Esselen language.<br />
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Desirae Harp (Ashi Akxi, The Esselen Girl) is a descendant of the Mishewal Wappo Tribe and Dine Nation and is a multi-talented singer and songwriter. Her songs include themes that focus on decolonization of mind, body and spirit. She sings with numerous groups including Audiopharmacy and is a community activist and mentor for urban youth programs throughout the bay area. She is also a co-founder of the Mishewal Wappo Language Revitalization Project. She is currently attending San Francisco State University.<br />
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DAVID SPRUNG (b. Jersey City, NJ) was raised in New York City. An honors graduate from Queens College, where he studied composition with Vittorio Rieti and Luigi Dallapiccola, Sprung also has a Master’s Degree in Composition from Princeton University, where his mentors were Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt. He has had a dual track career as educator and performer, having served on the faculties of Queens College, City College of New York, Wichita State University, Sonoma State University and California State University, East Bay where he now holds the title of Professor Emeritus of Music. Additionally, Sprung has been a prominent French horn player, having played principal horn with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Wichita Symphony, Chautauqua Symphony, and most recently, the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, and the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. Formerly, he was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Since retiring from active teaching and playing, he has been devoting himself to composing and conducting.<br />
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Composed in 2013 and being performed for the first time, the texts for <i>HAIKU</i> come from the collection Japanese Haiku (1956, Peter Pauper Press). In a prefatory note, translator Peter Beilenson notes: “There are only seventeen syllables in the haiku; the first and third lines contain five, the second seven. There is almost always in it the name of the season, or a key word giving the season by inference ….. But there is also, in a good haiku, more than a statement of feeling or a picture of nature: there is an implied identity between two seemingly different things.” The mood of the music is intended to reflect these ideas, although with elaborations using text repetitions and complementary thematic material. For the entire set, there is a high degree of musical integration; motives and other musical gestures recur throughout, as a means of providing stylistic unity.<br />
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I<br />
IN THESE DARK WATERS<br />
DRAWN UP FROM<br />
MY FROZEN WELL….<br />
GLITTERING OF SPRING<br />
Ringai<br />
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II<br />
STANDING STILL AT DUSK<br />
LISTEN… IN FAR<br />
DISTANCES<br />
THE SONG OF FROGLINGS!<br />
Buson<br />
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III<br />
I DREAMED OF BATTLES<br />
AND WAS SLAIN…<br />
OH SAVAGE SAMURAI!<br />
INSATIABLE FLEAS!<br />
Kikaku<br />
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IV<br />
ARISE FROM SLEEP, OLD CAT,<br />
AND WITH GREAT YAWNS<br />
AND STRETCHINGS…<br />
AMBLE OUT FOR LOVE<br />
Issa<br />
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V<br />
DARTING DRAGON-FLY…<br />
PULL OFF ITS SHINY<br />
WINGS AND LOOK…<br />
BRIGHT RED PEPPER-POD<br />
Kikaku<br />
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VI<br />
[Reply: follows V without pause]<br />
BRIGHT RED PEPPER-POD…<br />
IT NEEDS BUT SHINY<br />
WINGS AND LOOK…<br />
DARTING DRAGON-FLY!<br />
Basho<br />
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VII<br />
A WHITE SWAN SWIMMING…<br />
PARTING WITH HER<br />
UNMOVED BREAST<br />
CHERRY-PETALED POND<br />
Roka<br />
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VIII<br />
ROARING WINTER STORM<br />
RUSHING TO ITS<br />
UTTER END…<br />
EVER-SOUNDING SEA<br />
Gonsui<br />
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IX<br />
AH! I INTENDED<br />
NEVER NEVER<br />
TO GROW OLD…<br />
LISTEN: NEW YEAR’S BELL!<br />
Jokun<br />
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DAVIDE VEROTTA was born in a boring Italian town close to Milano and moved to the much more exciting San Francisco in his late twenties. He studied piano at the Milano and San Francisco Conservatory, and privately with Julian White, and composition at San Francisco State University (MA) and the University of California at Davis (PhD), as well as having a parallel-track academic life in mathematics as a professor at the University of California at San Francisco. He is actively involved in the new music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area (as soloist, chamber player, member of SFCCO, National Composer Association, SF, Irregular Resolutions, co-organizer of the Festival of Contemporary Music). He teaches piano and composition privately and at the Community Music Center in San Francisco. Recent compositions include works for orchestra with the Berkeley Symphony, chamber opera, dance, piano solo, percussion, and various chamber ensembles. Upcoming in Spring 2014 is the "tone poem" Il Ponte, for piano, percussion and strings. For more information, please visit his web site at davideverotta.com.<br />
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INVITATION is a short piece for piano, that is the introduction of a large work for piano, percussion, strings,and voice, Il Ponte -- which will be presented in the Bay Area in the Spring of 2014. As the title indicates the piece represents an invitation to the player and the audience, a luring to enter a different place, leaving behind for a while normal everyday realities.<br />
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<i>Moving Day</i><br />
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8pm, Saturday, May 4, 2013<br />
Lick-Wilmerding High School Auditorium, San Francisco, CA<br />
Mark Alburger, John Kendall Bailey, and Martha Stoddard, conducting<br />
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Harry Bernstein <br />
<i>Sonata for Flute, Oboe, and Piano</i> (2003)<br />
I. Playful, Vigorous<br />
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<i>String Quintet</i> (2013)<br />
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John Beeman <br />
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<i>Sprites</i> (2013)<br />
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Davide Verotta<br />
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<i>Dances for Orchestra </i>(2013)<br />
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I. Lullaby<br />
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II. Paidushko<br />
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III. Pyrrixios<br />
IV. Syxnyse<br />
V. Halay Halaylar<br />
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Intermission<br />
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Michael A. Kimbell<br />
<i>Time Does Not Move</i> (2006) (Keller)<br />
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Michael Cooke <br />
<i>Incomplete Thoughts: A Passacaglia</i> (2013)<br />
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Martha Stoddard <br />
<i>Gait Changes</i> (2013)<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA<br />
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Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor <br />
Erling Wold Associate Music Director<br />
John Kendall Bailey Associate Conductor<br />
Martha Stoddard Associate Conductor<br />
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Flute <br />
Bruce Salvisberg<br />
Harry Bernstein<br />
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Oboe<br />
Phil Freihofner<br />
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Clarinet<br />
Michael Kimbell<br />
Rachel Condry<br />
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Bassoon<br />
Michael Cooke<br />
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Trumpet<br />
Cindy Collins<br />
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Horn<br />
Priscilla Nunn<br />
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Trombone<br />
Alex Bond<br />
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Narrator<br />
Emmanuel Williams<br />
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Piano<br />
Allan Crossman<br />
Davide Verotta<br />
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Percussion<br />
Victor Flaviano<br />
Anne Szabla<br />
Mark Alburger<br />
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Violin I<br />
Monika Gruber<br />
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Violin II<br />
Alise Ewan<br />
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Viola<br />
Raphael Gold<br />
Harry Bernstein<br />
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Cello<br />
Ariella Hyman<br />
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Bass<br />
John Beeman<br />
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HARRY BERNSTEIN has been involved in San Francisco Bay Area music for many years as a composer, performer and teacher. He began his musical training on the trumpet, later learning the recorder as well as the Baroque the modern flutes. More recently, his life has been altered by the invasion of a viola. This occurred a few years after Bernstein began his association with City College. Why take up a stringed instrument in one's fifties? In his case, he took on the challenge of learning the viola in order to explore both orchestral and chamber music, and to learn how to write more effectively for strings. Not long after earning a D.M.A. in early music performance from Stanford University, he moved 30 miles north to San Francisco where he has lived ever since. He has studied composition with Jerry Mueller and has written vocal and instrumental music. Bernstein is co-founder of the Golden Age Ensemble, a duo presenting varied programs of instrumental and vocal music around the Bay Area and is a partner in Micro Pro Musica Press, SF, which offers music engraving, arranging and transcription services. He is currently active with the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra (flute), the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony (viola), and that unpredictable composers' circle known as Irregular Resolutions. Bernstein is an instructor in both the Music and Older Adults Departments at City College of San Francisco, and also teaches privately.<br />
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"SONATA FOR FLUTE, OBOE, AND PIANO in 2003 for a concert by Irregular Resolutions. We built a program around a cellist and also multi-instrumentalist Nik Phelps, of the Sprocket Ensemble, who could play flute, oboe, clarinet, and trumpet. The trio is of humorous intent, even though it is hard to play a wind instrument with your tongue in your cheek (not at all chic)! There are short contrasting sections, with the winds sometimes playing 'against' the piano, and occasional quotations of other music, which come to a head with a virtual quotation duel."<br />
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The string quintet movement, PLAN B, was the piece that came up after the original plan to write a quartet, a sextet and another "ette,” as yet unnamed, failed to materialize within the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra time restraints—probably due to a lack of “etiquette” on my part. Plan B arose because of my enjoyment of playing string quintets and sextets in recent years. There are three short sections, each one a little faster than the last. The first section is slow, with a touch of Cole Porter world-weariness; the second has elements of tango and the third takes on something of the mood of swing.<br />
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JOHN BEEMAN studied with Peter Fricker and William Bergsma at the University of Washington where he received his Master’s degree. His first opera, The Great American Dinner Table was produced on National Public Radio. Orchestral works have been performed by the Fremont-Newark Philharmonic, Santa Rosa Symphony, and the Peninsula Symphony. Beeman has attended the Ernest Bloch Composers’ Symposium, the Bard Composer-Conductor program, the Oxford Summer Institutes, and the Oregon Bach Festival, and has received awards through Meet the Composer, the American Music Center and ASCAP. Compositions have been performed by Ensemble Sorelle, the Mission Chamber Orchestra, the Ives Quartet, Fireworks Ensemble, Paul Dresher, the Oregon Repertory Singers and Schola Cantorum of San Francisco.<br />
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Sprites are immense, but brief, flashes of red light that appear above thunderstorms. This unusual weather phenomenon was only first documented in 1989. Blue jets, similar optical phenomenon, are cones of blue light shooting above the clouds. The cause of these flashes, though not yet determined, may be connected with electrical discharges from storms. SPRITES (2013) was inspired by these unusual weather events. <br />
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Multi-instrumentalist MICHAEL COOKE is a composer of jazz and classical music. This two-time Emmy, ASCAPLUS, and Louis Armstrong Jazz Award winner can be heard on soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones, flute, soprano and bass clarinets, bassoon and percussion. A cum laude graduate with a music degree from the University of North Texas, he had many different areas of study; jazz, ethnomusicology, music history, theory and composition. In 1991 Cooke began his professional orchestral career performing in many north Texas area symphonies. He has played in Europe, Mexico, and all over the United States. Cimarron Music Press began published many of Cooke's compositions in 1994. After relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area, he has been exploring new paths in improvised and composed music, mixing a variety of styles and techniques that draw upon the creative energy of a multicultural experience, both in and out of America. In 1999, Cooke started the jazz label Black Hat Records (blackhatrecords.com) and is currently on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra. The San Francisco Beacon describes Cooke's music as "flowing out color and tone with a feeling I haven't heard in quite a while. Michael plays with such dimension and flavor that it sets (his) sound apart from the rest." Uncompromising, fiery, complex, passionate, and cathartic is how the All Music Guide labeled Cooke's playing on Searching, Statements, and The Is. His latest release, An Indefinite Suspension of The Possible, is an unusual mixture of woodwinds, trombone, cello, koto and percussion, creating a distinct synergy in improvised music.<br />
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"INCOMPLETE THOUGHTS: A PASSACAGLIA was born out of the news that the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra would not have our customary three bassoons. I stopped the piece on which I was working, and came up with another: a contempoary passacaglia where the bass line was in one time and the other instruments in others. I was thinking to use either multiple conductors or metronomes with earpieces. Desiring inspiration, I looked though some of my incomplete compositions for a bass line, and found something useable in a draft of an opera from many years ago. The figure went through some modifications and was given a lazy lilt in 7/8. I wanted to layer fragments of music on top, which were inspired by scraps of music not yet finished and other incomplete utterances. As I felt the work should be written in a stream-of-conscious-manner, an interruption motif came into being as a way to switch thoughts. While I eventually decided that the original idea of multiple times might be hard to pull off, I came up with other ways to have multiple times. In the end, I hope to have created a thought-provoking work that is more than the collection of Incomplete Thoughts that began it."<br />
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MICHAEL A. KIMBELL (b. 1946) studied composition with John Davison, Alfred Swan, Robert Palmer, and Karel Husa, and received his DMA in composition from Cornell University in 1973. Ten of his orchestral compositions have been performed by the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra and San Francisco Sinfonietta. His Arcadian Symphony won the 1998 Southern Arizona Symphony Competition and was also performed by the San Jose Mission Chamber Orchestra. Kimbell's Poème for Violin and Harp has been performed in Austria and Germany and at the 2011 World Harp Congress in Vancouver. Other chamber works as well as songs and the short opera The Hot Iron have received numerous performances.<br />
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TIME DOES NOT MOVE features the poem Die Zeit geht nicht by Gottfried Keller (1819-1890), the greatest German-Swiss writer of the 19th Century. The complete poem (English version by Edith and Michael Kimbell) is spoken in melodrama fashion. The music incorporates an 1821 Swiss folksong melody by Wilhelm Müller, variously titled “Ich stand auf hohem Berge” (“I stood on a high mountain”) and “Im Krug zum grünen Kranze” (“In the Jug and Green Garland”). The melody appears very gradually, first as melodic fragments, then as a fugue based on the second phrase of the melody, and finally in full quotation by the flute.<br />
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MARTHA STODDARD earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at Humboldt State University and her Master of Music degree from San Francisco State University, where she studied flute, conducting and composition. She was named Program Director for the John Adams Young Composers Program at the Crowden Music Center in 2012 and has held the position of Artistic Director of the Oakland Civic Orchestra since1997. She is Associate Conductor of the San Francisco Composers’ Chamber Orchestra and Director of Instrumental Music at Lick-Wilmerding High School. Other activities include operatic engagements as Musical Director for Lisa Scola Prosek's Belfagor and Trap Door, John Bilotta's Trifles, Mark Alburger's Job: A Masque, and the collaborative Dieci Giorni, which premiered in San Francisco in 2010. In August, 2012 she conducted the premiere of Scola Prosek's Daughter of the Red Tsar, featuring tenor John Duykers. A three-time recipient of AscapPlus Awards, her music has been performed in San Francisco through the American Composers Forum, by the Sierra Ensemble, Avenue Winds and in the UK by flutists Carla Rees and Lisa Bost. She has had performances by the San Francisco Choral Artists, Schwungvoll!, the Community Women’s Orchestra, Oakland Civic Orchestra, Womensing, Bakersfield Symphony New Directions Series, in the Trinity Chamber Concert Series and the New Music Forum Festival of Contemporary Music. Recent commissions include Points of Reference, Outbursts: an Homage to Brahms, Orchestral Suite for the Young of all Ages, and Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano. Stoddard is a featured performer on alto flute in John Bilotta’s Shadow Tree (Capstone Records CPS-8787), and as conductor for Janis Mercer’s, Voices (Centaur Recordings, CPS 2951). <br />
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"The idea for GAIT CHANGES (2013) came to me as I was walking the loop around the top of San Bruno Mountain. While walking I imagined different rhythmic patterns associated with my footsteps. To these patterns I infused melodies themselves over undulating rhythms, noting the changes in gait with different interludes and musical character. I specifically crafted a soloistic piano interlude for my friend and mentor, Allan Crossman, whose love of walking is often conveyed in his own compositions which I have been privileged to conduct."<br />
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DAVIDE VEROTTA was born in a boring Italian town close to Milano and moved to the much more exciting San Francisco in his late twenties. He studied piano at the Milano and San Francisco Conservatories, and composition at the San Francisco State University and University of California at Davis. He is actively involved in the new music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area. [Don't miss the 11th Festival of Contemporary Music, of which I am one of the organizers! With more than 30 composers it is coming up in June, July and August http://newmusicforum.com.] He teaches piano and composition privately and at the Community Music Center in San Francisco. Recent compositions include works for orchestra with the Berkeley Symphony, chamber opera, dance, piano solo, percussion quartet, and various chamber ensembles. For more information, please visit davideverotta.com.<br />
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DANCES FOR ORCHESTRA (2013) is the orchestral version of Dances to Mytilini, a quartet inspired by the folkloric traditions of the eastern Balkans and Turkey. The piece, about twice the length of the quartet, is organized in a cycle of five dances that metaphorically depicts a geographical and episodic journey. The geographical journey starts in Rumania and descends to the final destination, Mytilini, through Bulgaria, Thrace, and Attica. The five episodes correspond to early life (a lullaby dance), early adulthood (the quick-paced Paidushko), war (Pyrrixios) followed by confusion and dismay (Syxnyse), and finally by a joyful, exuberant ending, Halay Halaylar.<br />
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<b>SAN FRANCISCO <br />
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA</b><br />
Mark Alburger, Music Director<br />
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<i>Adventures Around the Lake with a Unicorn</i><br />
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8pm, Saturday, October 20, 2012<br />
Old First Church, San Francisco, CA<br />
Mark Alburger and Martha Stoddard, conducting<br />
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Program<br />
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Davide Verotta<br />
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<i> Dances to Mytilini</i> (2011)<br />
Lullaby dance<br />
Paidushko<br />
Pyrrixios<br />
Syxnyse<br />
Halay Halaylar<br />
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Edgar Varese<br />
<i>Octandre</i> (1923)<br />
I. Assez Lent, Lourd et sauvage, Tempo I<br />
II. Tres vif et nerveux<br />
III. Grave, Anime et jubilatoire, Subitement tres vif et nerveux,<br />
Anime et jubilatoire<br />
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Allan Crossman<br />
<i>Two Walks</i> (2012) <br />
I. A Walk at Lake Merced <br />
II. A Walk at Lake Merritt<br />
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Intermission<br />
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John Bilotta<br />
<i>Thurber Country</i> (2012) <br />
Amused by its presumption<br />
Scene with rabbits<br />
A mythical beast <br />
The damp hand of melancholy<br />
Let your mind alone<br />
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Lisa Scola Prosek<br />
<i>Overture to "L'Avventura"</i> (2012)<br />
I. Si, che sono triste, perche' mi mancano le stelle<br />
II. Bocca baciata<br />
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Mark Alburger <br />
<i>Triple Concerto for Bassoon, Contrabassoon, and Harp ("Family")</i>, Op. 201 (2012)<br />
I. Allegro<br />
II. Largo<br />
III. Rondo a la Pole Dance<br />
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<b>SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA</b><br />
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Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor <br />
Erling Wold Associate Music Director<br />
Martha Stoddard Associate Conductor<br />
John Kendall Bailey Associate Conductor<br />
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<b>Flute </b> <br />
Bruce Salvisberg<br />
<i>Piccolo, Alto Flute</i><br />
Harry Bernstein<br />
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<b>Oboe</b><br />
Phil Freihofner<br />
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<b>Clarinet</b><br />
Michael Kimbell<br />
<i>Eb Clarinet</i><br />
Rachel Condry<br />
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<b>Bassoon</b><br />
Michael Garvey <br />
Lori Garvey <br />
Contrabassoon<br />
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<b>Trumpet</b><br />
Cindy Collins<br />
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<b>Horn</b><br />
Monika Warchol<br />
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<b>Trombone</b><br />
Don Howe<br />
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<b>Soprano</b><br />
Maria Mikheyenko<br />
Lisa Scola Prosek<br />
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<b>Harp</b><br />
Samantha Garvey <br />
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<b>Piano</b><br />
Davide Verotta<br />
Lisa Scola Prosek<br />
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<b>Percussion</b><br />
Victor Flaviano<br />
Anne Szabla<br />
Colin Boltz<br />
<i>Vibraphone</i><br />
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<b>Violin I</b><br />
Hande Erdem<br />
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<b>Violin II</b><br />
Christina Wong<br />
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<b>Viola</b><br />
Nansamba Ssensalo<br />
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<b>Cello</b><br />
Ariella Hyman<br />
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<b>Bass</b><br />
John Beeman<br />
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<b>MARK ALBURGER</b> (b. April 2, 1957, Upper Darby, PA) studied with Gerald Levinson and Joan Panetti at Swarthmore College (B.A.), Karl Kohn at Pomona College, Jules Langert at Dominican University (M.A.), Tom Flaherty and Christopher Yavelow at Claremont Graduate University (Ph.D.), and Terry Riley. He is Founder and Music Director of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, Conductor of San Francisco Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions, and Instructor in Music Literature and Theory at Diablo Valley College. As Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music Monthly Journal (21st-centurymusic.com and 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com), Alburger has interviewed many composers, including Charles Amirkhanian, Earle Brown, George Crumb, Alan Hovhaness, Steve Mackey, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, and Steve Reich. He has recently updated and expanded the articles on John Adams and Philip Glass for Grove Online and The Grove Dictionary of American Music, Second Edition. Alburger has been the recipient of many honors, awards, and commissions -- including yearly ASCAP Plus; grants from Meet the Composer, the American Composers Forum, MetLife, and Theatre Bay Area; funding from the Marra, Zellerbach, Hewlett, and Getty Foundations; and performances by ensembles and orchestras throughout the United States. Alburger's concert and dramatic compositions combine atonal, collage, neoclassic, pop, and postminimal sensibilities -- often in overall frameworks troped on pre-existent material. His complete works 204 opus numbers to date (including 16 concerti, 20 operas, nine symphonies, and the 12-hours-and-counting opera-oratorio The Bible) are being issued on recordings from New Music. 500+ videos of his music may be found on the DrMarkAlburger YouTube channel, as well as on many other websites. <br />
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<i>TRIPLE CONCERTO FOR BASSOON, CONTRABASSOON, AND HARP ("FAMILY")</i>, Op. 196, was written for and is dedicated to Michael, Lori, and Samantha Garvey -- in thanks for their wonderful work with the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra and Diablo Valley College Philiharmonic over many years. The work is mapped on Ludwig van Beethoven's Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano, and takes its sensibilities from the likes of Dmitri Shostakovich, John Cage, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. The second movement features a half-step augmented scale of Ab B C Db E# F# G Ab (a2, m2, m2, aa2, m2, m2, m2), and the third a blues-swing of C D Eb E F G A C.<br />
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<b>JOHN G. BILOTTA</b> (b.Waterbury, Connecticut) has spent most his life in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he studied composition with Frederick Saunders. His works have been performed by Rarescale, Earplay, the Talea Ensemble, the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, Chamber Mix, Musica Nova, the Avenue Winds, the Boston String Quartet, the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, the Kiev Philharmonic, the Oakland Civic Orchestra, San Francisco Cabaret Opera, Bluegrass Opera, Boston Metro Opera, and VocalWorks. His music is available on Capstone Records, New Music North, Beauport Classical Recordings, Navonna Records and are distributed by Naxos. His first chamber opera Aria da Capo was a finalist at the New York City Opera. His comic opera Quantum Mechanic won the 2007 Opera-in-a-Month Challenge as well as a 2010 AmericanaFestival Award. His most recent opera Trifles premiered in 2010 as part of the Fresh Voices X Festival of New Works. John co-directs with Brian Bice and Davide Verotta the Festival of Contemporary Music. He is a member of the Society of Composers, Inc., where he serves on the Executive Committee and for which he edits SCION, the Society’s opportunities newsletter; and he is a member of the Board of Directors for Goat Hall Productions.<br />
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<i>THURBER COUNTRY</i> is a high-speed road trip through an unexpected landscape—the brilliant and unique world to which James Thurber welcomed us. The music can touch on only a few of the land’s varied sights. It is neither literal nor programmatic, offering instead impressions of things that are likely better seen peripherally than examined too closely. For those familiar with Thurber’s country, teetering as it does on the edge of laughter and terror, the music’s sectional descriptions may offer a few glimpses<br />
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Over the years, <b>ALLAN CROSSMAN</b> has had the special pleasure of collaborating with Bay Area musicians, actors, directors, dancers, librettists, music teachers, students, and technicians, including SFCCO members at occasions other than these Old First Concerts. Recipient of awards and grants, his music has recently been presented in Brazil, Connecticut, Australia, Oakland, and on radio. On November 9th, on this same stage, pianist Jerry Kuderna will perform his Moto Atlantico at a concert of 20th/21st-century music. <br />
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About <i>TWO WALKS,</i> for chamber orchestra, the composer writes: "1. A Walk at Lake Merced: On my first-ever walk there, it was very quiet and beautiful, and found myself talking in a low voice so as not to disturb the peacefulness of the place. This piece is a translation into music of that deeply-felt serenity.<br />
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2. A Walk at Lake Merritt: This was a very different experience from Lake Merced - more about things appearing and happening. No sooner had I arrived at the Lake than a whole barrel of things rolled out, in this order: crowds and lots of kids; the birds; then the eight-oar sculls skimming silently across the water; some smooth runners; a cat (this point in the score is marked felino); and finally Children's Fairyland, which I overheard, since you're not allowed to enter without a child... Then walking back in the opposite direction produced it all in reverse order - very conveniently offering me a symmetrical form for the piece!"<br />
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<b>LISA SCOLA PROSEK</b> was raised in Rome, Italy, and graduated from Princeton University. She studied with Edward Cone and Milton Babbitt, and Gaetano Luporini in Florence, Italy. To date, Scola Prosek has composed seven operas in Italian and English. On August 24, 2012, Daughter of the Red Tzar, commissioned by Thick House Theater, premiered to capacity audiences, in a production starring John Duykers as Winston Churchill.<br />
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<i> L’AVVENTURA</i>, also commissioned by Thick House for 2013, is an operatic tribute to the musical culture of Naples.<br />
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Although his complete surviving works only last about three hours, <b>EDGAR[d Victor Achille Charles] VARESE</b> (December 22, 1883, Paris - November 6, 1965, New York) has been recognized as a major influence in 20th-century music and beyond. He grew up in Le Villars, Burgundy, and Turin, before returning to his birthplace in 1904 to study with Albert Roussel, Vincent d’Indy, and Charles-Marie Widor. From 1907 to 1915 became acquainted with Claude Debussy, Ferruccio Busoni, and Arnold Schoenberg. After moving to New York in December of 1915, virtually all his European compositions were either lost or destroyed in a Berlin warehouse fire. With Carlos Salzedo, he founded the International Composers' Guild, whose 1922 manifesto declared that, "The present day composers refuse to die." Varese composed many of his ensemble pieces under the auspices of the ICG during its six year existence, including Offrandes, Hyperprism, OCTANDRE, and Integrales. He became an American citizen in 1926, and four years later composed Ionisation, the first stand-alone composition to feature only percussion instruments. Le Corbusier was commissioned by Philips to present a pavilion at the 1958 World Fair and insisted (against the sponsors' resistance) on working with Varese, who developed his Poème électronique for the venue, where it was heard by an estimated two million people.<br />
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<i>OCTANDRE</i> (1923) -- for flute (piccolo), oboe, Bb (Eb) clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, horn, trombone, and bass -- references a flower with eight stamens, and is the only multi-movement work (attaccas notwithstanding) by the composer, with each section reflecting a roughly ternary form. It was first heard on January 13, 1924, at New York's Vanderbilt Theater, conducted by E. Robert Schmitz, the work’s dedicatee, and published later that year by J. Curwen, London. The first movement begins with an oboe phrase evoking a bassoonian-Stravinskian Rite of Spring, where most of the intervals have been transformed into seconds, sevenths, and ninths. After bundles of repeated notes and brass pulsations, the section ends a tritone away as it began: "a little anxious." A second part begins as a scherzo-glorification the piccolo’s repetitive impulses, with a call-and-response of asymmetrical brass-and-woodwind outbursts, and a fierce crescendo. The final section opens as a solemn bass solo, leading to "jubilant" fugato (seemingly singular in Varese's output), broken into component parts and subjected to rhythmic transformations, at times perhaps inspired by the Rite's Glorification of the Chosen One. The original contrapuntal subject returns at the very end, only to be overpowered by another signature Varesian sound mass.<br />
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<b>DAVIDE VEROTTA</b> was born in a boring Italian town close to Milano and moved to the very much more exciting San Francisco in his late twenties. He studied piano at the Milano Conservatory and piano and composition in California at the San Francisco Conservatory and State University, and at the University of California at Davis. He is an active solo and ensemble piano recitalist, and he is actively involved in the new music composition scene in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information please visit his web site at http://www.davideverotta.com.<br />
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<i>DANCES TO MYTILINI</i> is a quartet inspired by the folkloric traditions of the eastern Balkans and Turkey. The piece is organized in a cycle of five dances that metaphorically depicts a geographical and episodic journey. The geographical journey starts in Romania and descends to the final destination, Mytilini, through Bulgaria, Thrace, and Attica. The five episodes correspond to early life (a lullaby dance), early adulthood (the quick-paced Paidushko), war (Pyrrixios) followed by confusion and dismay (Syxnyse), and finally by a joyful, exuberant ending, Halay Halaylar.<br />
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<br />San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732600041937113394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350662456957609761.post-34446342988574332332012-06-09T20:00:00.000-07:002013-11-17T14:09:22.550-08:00June 9, 2012 - 10th-Anniversary Gala!<br />
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Mark Alburger, Music Director<br />
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Tenth Anniversary Gala<br />
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8pm, Saturday, June 9, 2012<br />
Old First Church, San Francisco, CA<br />
Mark Alburger and Martha Stoddard, conducting<br />
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Program<br />
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John Beeman<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<i>Collage</i> (2011) (Carla Brooke)<br />
Garden<br />
Fire Ribbon<br />
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Sheli Nan<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<i>"Saga" Overture</i> (2012)<br />
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Michael A. Kimbell<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<i>Concertino for C Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra</i> (2012)<br />
Moderato lirico<br />
Andante un poco adagio<br />
Allegretto grazioso<br />
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Intermission<br />
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William Severson<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<i>The Mystic Trumpeter</i> (2009) (Walt Whitman)<br />
II.<br />
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Martha Stoddard<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<i>Points of Reference</i> (2012)<br />
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Samuel Ostroff<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<i>Academy</i> (2012)<br />
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John Cage<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<i>4'33"</i> (1952)<br />
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Igor Stravinsky<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<i>Greeting Prelude</i> (1955)<br />
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Mark Alburger<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<i>Triple Concerto for Bassoon, Contrabassoon, and Harp </i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<i>("Family")</i>, Op. 201 (2012) <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
I. Allegro<br />
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Davide Verotta<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<i>Solar Wind II </i> (2011)<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA<br />
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Mark Alburger<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> - Music Director and Conductor<br />
Erling Wold - Associate Music Director<br />
John Kendall Bailey - Associate Conductor<br />
Martha Stoddard - Associate Conductor<br />
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Flute<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Bruce Salvisberg<br />
Harry Bernstein<br />
<i>Piccolo, Alto Flute</i><br />
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Oboe<br />
Philip Freihofner<br />
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Clarinet<br />
Michael Kimbell<br />
Ron Kerst<br />
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Bassoon<br />
Michael Garvey<br />
Lori Garvey<br />
<i>Contrabassoon</i><br />
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Horn<br />
Brian Holmes<br />
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Trombone<br />
Don Howe<br />
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Tuba<br />
Nathan Riebli<br />
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Soprano<br />
Maria Mikheyenko<br />
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Mezzo-Soprano<br />
Megan Stetson<br />
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Harp<br />
Samantha Garvey<br />
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Piano<br />
Davide Verotta<br />
Sheli Nan<br />
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Percussion<br />
Victor Flaviano<br />
Anne Szabla<br />
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Violin<br />
Monika Gruber<br />
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Violin II<br />
Hande Erdem<br />
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Viola<br />
Nansamba Ssensalo<br />
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Cello<br />
Ariella Hyman<br />
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Bass<br />
John Beeman<br />
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MARK ALBURGER (b. April 2, 1957, Upper Darby, PA) studied with Gerald Levinson and Joan Panetti at Swarthmore College (B.A.), Karl Kohn at Pomona College, Jules Langert at Dominican University (M.A.), Tom Flaherty and Christopher Yavelow at Claremont Graduate University (Ph.D.), and Terry Riley. He is Founder and Music Director of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, Conductor of San Francisco Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions, and Instructor in Music Literature and Theory at Diablo Valley College. As Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music Monthly Journal (21st-centurymusic.com and 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com), Alburger has interviewed many composers, including Charles Amirkhanian, Earle Brown, George Crumb, Alan Hovhaness, Steve Mackey, Meredith Monk, and Pauline Oliveros. He has recently updated and expanded the articles on John Adams and Philip Glass for Grove Online and The Grove Dictionary of American Music, Second Edition. Alburger has been the recipient of many honors, awards, and commissions -- including yearly ASCAP Awards; grants from Meet the Composer, the American Composers Forum, MetLife, and Theatre Bay Area; funding from the Marra, Zellerbach, Hewlett, and Getty Foundations; and performances by ensembles and orchestras throughout the United States. Alburger's concert and dramatic compositions combine atonal, collage, neoclassic, pop, and postminimal sensibilities -- often in overall frameworks troped on pre-existent material. His complete works (203 opus numbers to date, including 16 concerti, 20 operas, nine symphonies, 12-hours-and-counting opera-oratorio The Bible, and Boccaccio's The Decameron) are being issued on recordings from New Music. 500+ videos of his work may be found on the DrMarkAlburger YouTube channel, as well as on many other websites. <br />
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TRIPLE CONCERTO FOR BASSOON, CONTRABASSOON, AND HARP ("FAMILY"), Op. 201 (2012), was written for and is dedicated to Michael, Lori, and Samantha Garvey -- in thanks for their wonderful work with San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra and the Diablo Valley College Philharmonic over many years. The work is modally mapped over Ludwig van Beethoven's Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano, and takes its angular and contrapuntal sensibilities from Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Steve Reich.<br />
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JOHN BEEMAN studied with Peter Fricker and William Bergsma at the University of Washington where he received his Master’s degree. His first opera, The Great American Dinner Table was produced on National Public Radio. Orchestral works have been performed by the Fremont-Newark Philharmonic, Santa Rosa Symphony, and the Peninsula Symphony. Mr. Beeman has attended the Ernest Bloch Composers’ Symposium, the Bard Composer-Conductor program, the Oxford Summer Institutes, and the Oregon Bach Festival and has received awards through Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, and ASCAP. Compositions have been performed by Ensemble Sorelle, the Mission Chamber Orchestra, the Ives Quartet, Fireworks Ensemble, Paul Dresher, the Oregon Repertory Singers and Schola Cantorum of San Francisco.<br />
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COLLAGE is a set of poems written by Carla Brooke that has been transformed into a song cycle for soprano, clarinet, violin, and cello. In 2011 the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra premiered the first two songs, Phoenix and The Other Side. Brooke notes, "Poems often come to me through visual images that I cut and paste into collage artwork. The two poems performed tonight embrace elements of air and fire. GARDEN offers a delicate floating perspective from a butterfly or bird’s eye view. Finally, a full circle reunion with creation’s fiery origins is expressed in FIRE RIBBON.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>GARDEN<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I float with silver wings<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>glistening each time a flower opens.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>One and another cradled inside fallen petals<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>reaching out, no longer alone.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Leaves become rose petals,<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>cocoons grow wings,<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>all of us joined in a seamless sky full of freedom.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Moon-sized flowers grow from teardrops<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>no longer held back.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Fear dissolves with my first step<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>along this well lit path<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nothing left to do but open<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>wide as the sun<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>above my bowed head.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>FIRE RIBBON<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I trace a steamy map with my fingertips,<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>so long ago before there were names for life.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Just one fiery ribbon,<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>we felt or way through.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>From clouds to rain, to flowers<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>that grew from snow melt.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>So long ago there was no me,<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>there was no you between the spaces,<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>only nature’s endless melody.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Heartache comes when I pretend<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I am anything more than this.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Just one fiery ribbon of life<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>dissolves into the next.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>One more teardrop fades<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>into the endless tide of creation.<br />
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JOHN [MILTON] CAGE [JR.] (September 5, 1912 - August 12, 1992) was an American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century. He was also instrumental in the development of modern dance, mostly through his association with choreographer Merce Cunningham, who was Cage's partner for most of their lives.<br />
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Cage is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition 4′33″, which is performed in the absence of deliberate sound; musicians who present the work do nothing aside from being present for the duration specified by the title. The content of the composition is not "four minutes and 33 seconds of silence," as is sometimes assumed, but rather the sounds of the environment heard by the audience during performance. The work's challenge to assumed definitions about musicianship and musical experience made it a popular and controversial topic both in musicology and the broader aesthetics of art and performance... San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra presents the first movement of 4'33'' in this the centenary year of the Cage's birth.<br />
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MICHAEL A. KIMBELL studied clarinet with Donald Montanaro of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He took composition with John Davison, Alfred Swan, Robert Palmer and Karel Husa and received his DMA in the subject from Cornell University in 1973. Ten of his orchestral works have been performed by San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra and the San Francisco Sinfonietta. His Arcadian Symphony won the 1998 Southern Arizona Symphony Competition and was also performed by the San Jose Mission Chamber Orchestra. Poème for violin and harp has been performed in Austria and Germany and at the 2011 World Harp Congress in Vancouver. Other chamber compositions as well as songs and the short opera The Hot Iron have received numerous performances.<br />
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CONCERTINO FOR C CLARINET AND CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, based on the composer's Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano, explores classical forms and means of expression with a modern sensibility. The three movements of the original version have been combined into a continuous whole with additional material. Although equally performable on the standard Bb instrument, the work was written to exploit the youthful and lyrical character of the slightly smaller C clarinet, which is rarely encountered today and has a very limited solo repertory.<br />
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SHELI NAN is a Berkeley composer, musician, arts educator, and performer whose life’s work focuses on the creation, performance, distribution, and teaching of music. She has been professionally involved in the musical landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area for more than three decades. The Music Studio is an umbrella for her various musicals enterprises, including composition, performance, recording and teaching, privately and in school programs, as well as written publications. Sheli is the author of two books, many articles on music and has had 20 editions of music published and performed including her symphony, Signatures in Time and Place. Her latest large scale musical work is Saga: Portrait of a 21st Century Child, an opera for our time, with a libretto by the composer. She is a member of ASCAP and the consistent recipient of the Standard Awards Panel. She is also a member of the New York Composers Circle, The Western Early Keyboard Society, Early Music America, The San Francisco Early Music Society, The Society of Composers International, and the American Composers Forum.<br />
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In the spirit of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, SAGA: PORTRAIT OF A 21ST-CENTURY CHILD, is social commentary through a musical lens. In this tragedy our heroine becomes the sacrifice that society demands. No-one needs her, wants her, has time for her. As a result, she is energy run wild, with no moral compass, bereft of compassion except for herself. The music is achingly beautiful and allows the listener to digest the harsh truth of the underbelly of the very greedy who pursue their own ends to the detriment of their offspring and society. She sings,... "How did I find myself alone, so full of toys without a home..." and we travel with her on her tortuous journey toward self definition and violence both coming toward her and emanating from her. The OVERTURE is a combination of themes from the opera that at once disarm and place the listener on guard. For reviews and more information please visit www.shelinan.com and click on Saga.<br />
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SAMUEL OSTROFF is a Bay Area composer. His debut work Before You Read, was performed last year by the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra. His ventures into other forms of music include his role as singer songwriter in The Lysdexics, and attending Stanford Jazz Workshop. Ostroff currently studies classical piano and composition with Lisa Scola Prosek.<br />
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ACADEMY was originally written at the piano with the intention of creating a piece that could be related to by many. It is meant to describe the emotion that we as humans feel during our moments of malaise. To a child, it might be reminiscent of the dark: not an evil thing, but strange and unlikable. To a teenager, it might represent the feeling that school often evokes, hence the name.<br />
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WILLIAM SEVERSON is a Bay Area composer who has been featured with San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra and Irregular Resolutions.<br />
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Severson writes, "I've been working on setting Walt Whitman's THE MYSTIC TRUMPETER for several years, having completed five sections of the eight-section 87-line poem. The text for the second movement is the third section, as the initial two were combined in the first setting, which was premiered on October 3, 2009, at San Francisco Community Music Center. While the forces required for the complete work are clarinet, piano, and a solo quartet (SATB), the second movement is an alto solo. I use a clarinet as a mystic trumpet, and this is the world premiere."<br />
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Blow trumpeter free and clear, I follow thee,<br />
While at thy liquid prelude, glad, serene,<br />
The fretting world, the streets, the noisy hours of day withdraw,<br />
A holy calm descends like dew upon me,<br />
I walk in cool refreshing night the walks of Paradise,<br />
I scent the grass, the moist air and the roses;<br />
Thy song expands my numb'd imbonded spirit, thou freest, launchest me,<br />
Floating and basking upon heaven's lake.<br />
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MARTHA STODDARD earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at Humboldt State University and Master of Music from San Francisco State University, where she studied flute, conducting, and composition. She was recently named Program Director of the John Adams Young Composers Program at the Crowden Music Center and has held the position of Artistic Director of the Oakland Civic Orchestra since 1997. Stoddard is Associate Conductor of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra and Director of Instrumental Music at Lick-Wilmerding High School. Other activities include engagements as Musical Director for Lisa Scola Prosek's Belfagor and Trap Door, John Bilotta's Trifles, Mark Alburger's Job: A Masque, and the Erling Wold / Davide Verotta / Scola Prosek / Stoddard Dieci Giorni, premiered in San Francisco in 2010. In October 2012, she will conduct the premiere of Scola Prosek's The Daughter o the Red Tsar, featuring tenor John Duykers. A 2009 and 2010 recipient of AscapPlus Awards, her music has been performed in San Francisco through the American Composer’s Forum, by the Sierra Ensemble, Avenue Winds and in the UK by flutists Carla Rees and Lisa Bost. She has had performances by the San Francisco Choral Artists, Schwungvoll!, the Community Women’s Orchestra, Oakland Civic Orchestra, Womensing, Bakersfield Symphony New Directions Series, in the Trinity Chamber Concert Series and the New Music Forum Festival of Contemporary Music. Recent commissions include Points of Reference, Outbursts: an Homage to Brahms, Orchestral Suite for the Young of all Ages, and the Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano.<br />
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POINTS OF REFERENCE was commissioned by violist Ayako English for members of the Oakland Civic Orchestra and premiered on June 3, 2012. The work focuses on the development and variation of motific material in a series of melodic episodes derived from a simple chorale. At the heart of the work is the conversational interplay between instruments and the spinning out of thematic material. Scant musical references may suggest strains of Debussy and Copland, the irony of Shostakovich, the wit of Stravinsky and jazz harmony. The composer would like to thank Allan Crossman for his remarkable insights on multiple drafts of the work.<br />
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IGOR [FYODORVICH] STRAVINSKY (June 17 [O.S. June 5] 1882 - April 6, 1971) was a Russian, and later French and American composer, pianist, and conductor. He is acknowledged by many as one of [and by some as] the most important and influential composer[s] of the 20th Century.<br />
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Stravinsky relates, "I gave the downbeat to begin a rehearsal of Tchaikovsky's Second Symphony in Aspen one day in the summer of 1950, when instead of the doleful opening chord, out came this ridiculously gay little tune. I was very surprised, of course, and quite failed to 'get it,' as Americans say -- the 'it' being that one of the orchestra players had just become a father. I confess that the shock of the substituted music and the change of emotions piqued me, and that for some time I considered myself the victim of a practical joke." Pursuing the jest, however, the composer worked out a series of canons on Mildred J. Hill's Happy Birthday to You in 1951, then laid the tune aside as he began experimenting with serialism in the Cantata (1952), Septet (1953), and Three Songs from Shakespeare (1953). By the time he returned to the melody in 1955, the first of his truly serial (In Memoriam Dylan Thomas, 1954) and 12-tone works (a movement from Canticum Sacrum) had appeared. With this background, GREETING PRELUDE bursts forth, as an ingenious little energetic trope for the 80th birthday of Pierre Monteux, who conducted The Rite of Spring premiere in 1913. The theme is subjected to offbeat accentuation, octave displacements, contrary articulations (simultaneous staccatos and legatos, a Stravinskian decades-old technique), free counterpoint, augmentation, diminution, inversion, and retrograde. And through 1991 (assuming death in 1916 + 75), the estate of Mildred Hill received a royalty cut for each performance... San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra performs this work on the occasion of its tenth anniversary, and Stravinsky's 130th. If the reader has perused these notes during the performance, the brevity of the piece (c. 52'') is such that it is now over.<br />
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DAVIDE VEROTTA was born in a boring Italian town close to Milano and moved to the very much more exciting San Francisco in his late 20's. He studied piano at Milano Conservatory and piano and composition at the San Francisco Conservatory and State University, and at the University of California at Davis. He holds a MA in composition, is an active solo and ensemble piano player, actively involved in the new-music composition scene in the Bay Area. Recent performances of his compositions have included works for orchestra, chamber opera, string quartet, and piano solo. For more information please visit www.davideverotta.com.<br />
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SOLAR WIND II is an orchestral version of Solar Wind I (a quintet) and Solar Wind (a trio originally written as a dance piece). The composition takes inspiration from a YouTube video of the Sichuan Dance Academy and the movie Sunshine. The YouTube video provides the theme of the piece, and Sunshine the idea of the solar wind, an overwhelming force of nature that wipes you away. These elements are put together in a dream like narrative, where we wake up into an alternate reality and proceed to an encounter with the Sun. This is necessarily more imagined than real, and we re-enter ordinary reality at the end of the piece by falling back asleep. Compositionally the piece is inspired by Igor Stravinsky, with an oblique reference to The Rite of Spring, and the consistent use of a compositional technique (rotational sequencing of a series of pitches, in this case the pitches making up the theme of the piece) that can be found in his late works. Different from Solar Wind and Solar Wind I, orchestral harmonies are derived using a number of spectral techniques. In addition Solar Wind II has grown in length due to the presence of the full orchestra.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">SAN FRANCISCO</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA</span><br />
Mark Alburger, Music Director<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dark Serenade </span><br />
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8pm, Saturday, October 15, 2011, Old First Church, San Francisco, CA<br />
8pm, Sunday, October 16, 2011, Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, CA<br />
Mark Alburger, John Kendall Bailey, and Martha Stoddard, conducting<br />
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Program<br />
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Phil Freihofner - <i>Carmilla</i><br />
Lisa Scola Prosek, Soprano<br />
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Lisa Scola Prosek - <i>The Goldfish Pond</i><br />
John Duykers, Tenor<br />
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Davide Verotta - <i>Facing Chaos</i><br />
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David Graves - <i>Amaranthine Silence</i><br />
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Mark Alburger - <i>Regime Change (Solomon Suite)</i><br />
Lisa Scola Prosek, Soprano<br />
Olivia Flanigan, Contralto<br />
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Loren Jones - <i>Graveyard </i><br />
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SAN FRANCISCO<br />
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA<br />
Mark Alburger, Music Director<br />
<br />
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br />
September 15, 2010<br />
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CONTACT: <br />
SFCCO (707) 474-7273<br />
mus21stc@gmail.com<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PRESENTS<br />
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"THE DARK SERENADE"<br />
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8:00PM, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15,<br />
OLD FIRST CHURCH, <br />
1725 SACRAMENTO STREET (AT VAN NESS), SAN FRANCISCO, CA<br />
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AND<br />
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8:00PM, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16,<br />
CHAPEL OF THE CHIMES<br />
4499 PIEDMONT AVENUE, OAKLAND, CA<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO, OAKLAND, AND WORLD PREMIERES OF WORKS BY <br />
PHILIP FREIHOFNER, DAVID GRAVES, LOREN JONES, LISA SCOLA PROSEK, DAVIDE VEROTTA, AND MARK ALBURGER<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 15, 2011 -- The days are growing shorter, the economy is not improving, and it's time for The Dark Serenade. Join the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, on either side of the Bay -- at 8pm, October 15 (Old First Church, San Francisco) or 16 (Chapel of the Chimes) -- in a haunted landscape of works by Philip Freihofner, David Graves, Loren Jones, Lisa Scola Prosek, Davide Verotta, and Mark Alburger.<br />
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Freihofner sets the mood in <i>Carmilla</i>, a beautiful post-minimalist setting of Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu's short story of vampires and women, featuring Lisa Scola Prosek. This talented soprano-composer will then showcase her own luminous Night at the Kremlin excerpt entitled <i>The Goldfish Pond</i>, where world-renowned tenor John Duykers will hold forth as Winston Churchill on Stalinesque situations.<br />
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Keeping to matters historically ominous, Verotta's <i>Facing Chaos</i> illuminates a passage from Seneca the Younger's <i>Thyestes</i> ("Trembling are our hearts, lest all things fall shattered in fatal ruin . . .") in a juxtaposition of aggressive Indian talas with plangent basal melodies. Such contrasts are perhaps even more extreme in the grave Graves <i>Amaranthine Silence</i>, where animated contrapuntal complexities are counterpoised with various pre-recorded "silences" from gardens, restaurants, and parking garages.<br />
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Alburger's <i>Regime Change</i> takes the terror of Ancient and Contemporary civilizations through a kaleidoscope of found musics, sung by Scola Prosek and contralto Olivia Flanigan, as a prelude to Jones's signature over-the-top outpourings in <i>Graveyard</i>, where the orchestra will be augmented by bouzouki and tombstones. In the spirit of Erling Wold's <i>In the Stomachs of Fleas</i>, resoundingly presented a few concerts back, be prepared for Haloweenic smoke-and-mirrors. Fog. Strobe lights. Maybe even a small explosion....<br />
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Be afraid. Be amazed. And prepare for <i>The Dark Serenade</i>.<br />
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TICKET INFORMATION<br />
Tickets for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's <i>The Dark Serenade</i> -- on Saturday, October 15, 8:00 p.m., at Old First Church (1725 Sacramento Street @ Van Ness), San Francisco; and on Sunday, October 16, 8;00 p.m., at Chapel of the Chimes (4499 Piedmont Avenue), Oakland -- are $17 general, $14 students and seniors. Tickets for 10/15 are available through the OFC Box Office at (415) 474-1608 and for both concerts at the door. For more information, please call Old First Church Box Office, the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra (707- 474-7273), 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, sfcco.blogspot.com, and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com.<br />
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CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE:<br />
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OLD FIRST CONCERTS AND CHAPEL OF THE CHIMES PRESENT<br />
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Saturday, October 15, at 8:00 p.m.<br />
Old First Church<br />
1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness<br />
San Francisco, CA<br />
(415) 474-1608<br />
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Sunday, October 16, at 8:00 p.m.<br />
Chapel of the Chimes<br />
4499 Piedmont Avenue<br />
Oakland, CA<br />
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THE DARK SERENADE<br />
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra,<br />
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Program:<br />
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Mark Alburger - <i>Regime Change</i><br />
Philip Freihofner - <i>Carmilla</i><br />
David Graves - <i>The Amaranthine Silence</i><br />
Loren Jones - <i>Graveyard </i><br />
Lisa Scola Prosek - <i>The Goldfish Pond</i> from <i>Night at the Kremlin</i><br />
Davide Verotta - <i>Facing Chaos</i><br />
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Tickets: $17 general, $14 students and seniors, available for October 15 through the Old First Church Box Office at (415) 474-1608, for both concerts at the door, and at www.ticketweb.com.<br />
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More information at sfcco.org, sfcco.blogspot.com, and markalburgerevents.blogspot.comSan Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732600041937113394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350662456957609761.post-63955124076770124242011-06-25T20:00:00.000-07:002013-11-17T13:51:31.315-08:00June 25, 2011 - Lost Things Found<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVJiMHgfS3NYzM24Whu-PsW4KXS0t7UkYjfEfNZlld07Bpo4th-W4Rg1xc8pxuV5nwinE9EIp_wcC7fr-WB_PPmvV45MKQVtNAZIGL6E3cjKjBWwc7S26suwB6Up_EhxMMPtksJpyrSCE/s1600/2002SFCCO110625Postcard.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622206159146124050" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVJiMHgfS3NYzM24Whu-PsW4KXS0t7UkYjfEfNZlld07Bpo4th-W4Rg1xc8pxuV5nwinE9EIp_wcC7fr-WB_PPmvV45MKQVtNAZIGL6E3cjKjBWwc7S26suwB6Up_EhxMMPtksJpyrSCE/s400/2002SFCCO110625Postcard.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 262px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">SAN FRANCISCO</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;">Mark Alburger, Music Director</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><br />Lost Things Found </span><br />
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8pm, Saturday, June 25, 2011, Old First Church, San Francisco, CA<br />
Mark Alburger, John Kendall Bailey, and Martha Stoddard, conducting<br />
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Program<br />
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Loren Jones<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Mt. Eytan Gabriel Caves</span><br />
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Eytan and Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman, Piano<br />
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<br />
Bill Severson <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">A Simple Trifle</span><br />
I. A Trifle Crazy<br />
II. A Trifle Sad and Wistful<br />
III. A Trifle Dancey <br />
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John Beeman <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Collage</span><br />
I. Phoenix<br />
II. Other Side<br />
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Maria Mikheyenko, Soprano<br />
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Bernard Herrmann <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">The Twilight Zone: Little Girl Lost</span><br />
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Roland Kato, Viola d'Amore<br />
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Intermission<br />
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<br />
Davide Verotta <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Imaginations</span><br />
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<br />
Samuel Ostroff <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Before You Read </span><br />
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Martha Stoddard <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Orchestral Suite for the Young of All Ages</span><br />
Windsong Variations<br />
Hop-Skip-Jump<br />
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Lisa Scola Prosek <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Churchill in the Bath </span><br />
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John Duykers, Tenor<br />
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Allan Crossman <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Arriving at Loch Lomond </span>San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732600041937113394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350662456957609761.post-89529298050881828862010-09-25T20:00:00.000-07:002013-11-17T13:47:14.865-08:00September 25, 2010 - Animal, Vegetable, Mineral<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMAYy7lWU1gUXhZ4xYALpE8ijLqwAUbmnTwbDObzUaxWWKEzfGsP7CW1yx0RSsyXct_Cz15DjxdRNUmsmIlfd5YR2gxgJpqpES-_94CQDaY2Jdc3jRynbGL4DfEz3UuiPa_ltoXoET3fk/s1600/2002SFCCO100925Postcard01Front.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520963257443722418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMAYy7lWU1gUXhZ4xYALpE8ijLqwAUbmnTwbDObzUaxWWKEzfGsP7CW1yx0RSsyXct_Cz15DjxdRNUmsmIlfd5YR2gxgJpqpES-_94CQDaY2Jdc3jRynbGL4DfEz3UuiPa_ltoXoET3fk/s400/2002SFCCO100925Postcard01Front.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 270px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
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SAN FRANCISCO<br />
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA<br />
Mark Alburger, Music Director<br />
<br />
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br />
August 15, 2010 <br />
<br />
CONTACT:<br />
<br />
SFCCO (707) 474-7273 <br />
mus21stc@gmail.com<br />
<br />
SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PRESENTS<br />
"ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL"<br />
8:00PM, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, OLD FIRST CHURCH,<br />
1725 SACRAMENTO STREET (AT VAN NESS), SAN FRANCISCO, CA<br />
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OLD FIRST, SAN FRANCISCO, AND WORLD PREMIERES OF WORKS BY<br />
MICHAEL COOKE, LOREN JONES, JORGE LIDERMAN, TERRY RILEY,<br />
LISA SCOLA PROSEK, ERLING WOLD, AND MARK ALBURGER<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO, August 15, 2010 -- What is reality? Sentient beings clamoring for existence, the wind whistling through leafy vegetation, the silence and noise of this stony planet. Come along on musical safari with the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra (8pm, Saturday, September 25, Old First Church, SF) in Animal, Vegetable, Mineral -- a tour of the Earth's scenic and sonic wonders, in compositions by Michael Cooke, Loren Jones, Jorge Liderman, Terry Riley, Lisa Scola Prosek, Erling Wold, and Mark Alburger<br />
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The latter's Animal Farm: Grand Zoological Fantasy-Variations is a dark, Orwellian spin on creatures great and small, including a visual presentation of surrealistically-altered YouTube videos. In biological distinction, Jones will offer Banyan: an aural giving-tree of multicultural musical delights. Answering this will be a revival of Riley's celebrated minimalist-improvisatory anthem In C, in all of its crystalline and granitic splendor.<br />
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Also along for the journey are Michael Cooke's deeply-felt Love Letters; Lisa Scola Prosek's vibrant Piano Sonata; a retrospective work of the late, great Jorge Liderman; and an exciting new work by Erling Wold. John Kendall Bailey will join Alburger in the zoomusicological tour-guiding responsibilities.<br />
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TICKET INFORMATION:<br />
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Tickets for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral" -- on Saturday, September 25, 8:00 p.m., at Old First Church (1725 Sacramento Street @ Van Ness), San Francisco, are $17 general, $14 students and seniors. Tickets are available through the OFC Box Office at (415) 474-1608 and at the door. For more information, please call Old First Church Box Office, the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra (707) 474-7273, 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, and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com.<br />
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CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE:<br />
<br />
OLD FIRST CONCERTS PRESENTS<br />
Saturday, September 25, at 8:00 p.m. Old First Church<br />
1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness<br />
San Francisco, CA<br />
(415) 474-1608<br />
<br />
ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL<br />
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra,<br />
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Program:<br />
<br />
Mark Alburger - Animal Farm: Grand Zoological Fantasy-Variations (Part I)<br />
Michael Cooke - Love Letters<br />
Loren Jones - The Banyan<br />
Jorge Liderman - Flautando<br />
Terry Riley - In C<br />
Lisa Scola Prosek - Piano Sonata<br />
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Tickets: $17 general, $14 students and seniors, available through the Old First Church Box Office at (415) 474-1608, at the door, and at www.ticketweb.com.<br />
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More information at sfcco.org and markalburgerevents.blogspot.comSan Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732600041937113394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350662456957609761.post-40144982864004594872010-06-11T20:00:00.000-07:002013-11-17T15:41:21.702-08:00June 11, 2010 - Silence of the Wolves<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfYj5C4Cd6HzUcdwkYQn4wOSjCwV1-xiCCA3USmWtiKcnvNbpsAKphjlAg-VhEpg9MReSq8eGNewdzts_q83steGn_ZBA4Qoh0N8hqXAMNeE_vu_g0OvurIvuqhhn3uGbMRROHslg7GMc/s1600/2002SFCCO100611Postcard01Front.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481612283042584034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfYj5C4Cd6HzUcdwkYQn4wOSjCwV1-xiCCA3USmWtiKcnvNbpsAKphjlAg-VhEpg9MReSq8eGNewdzts_q83steGn_ZBA4Qoh0N8hqXAMNeE_vu_g0OvurIvuqhhn3uGbMRROHslg7GMc/s400/2002SFCCO100611Postcard01Front.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 272px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
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SAN FRANCISCO<br />
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA<br />
Mark Alburger, Music Director<br />
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br />
May 10, 2010 <br />
<br />
CONTACT:<br />
SFCCO (707) 474-7273 <br />
mus21stc@gmail.com<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PRESENTS<br />
"SILENCE OF THE WOLVES"<br />
8:00PM, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, OLD FIRST CHURCH,<br />
1725 SACRAMENTO STREET (AT VAN NESS), SAN FRANCISCO, CA<br />
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OLD FIRST, SAN FRANCISCO, AND WORLD PREMIERES OF WORKS BY<br />
JOHN BEEMAN, CINDY COLLINS, LOREN JONES, DARIUS MILHAUD,<br />
LISA SCOLA PROSEK, MARTHA STODDARD, AND DAVIDE VEROTTA<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, 2010 -- Listen carefully. The slightest sound may be of the greatest import. That wolf howling in the distance, just at the edge of consciousness, may change your life. For the better. At least, we sure hope so, as San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra presents Silence of the Wolves -- an evening celebration of sounds great and small, at Old First Church on June 11, 2010, in music of John Beeman, Cindy Collins, Loren Jones, Darius Milhaud, Lisa Scola Prosek, Martha Stoddard, and Davide Verotta.<br />
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Verotta's An Enticement of Silence and Jones's Wolf Wood manifest the head and tail of the concert in musics gentle and disturbing -- sentiments also mirrored in Beeman's Bernsteinianly-appelated Fancy Free. Scola Prosek provides the requisite bark and bite in three selections from the opera Ten Days (Dieci Giorni, after The Decameron of Boccaccio) with songs tragic, romantic, and comic. Rounding out the pack are the colorful Collins Synesthesia (directed by Mark Alburger) and the wolf-whistle Cowgirl Rondo of Stoddard (conducted by the composer), with a special howl-out going for the revival of Les Six / Mills College associate Milhaud's Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1-3, led by John Kendall Bailey.<br />
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TICKET INFORMATION<br />
Tickets for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's "Silence of the Wolves" -- on Friday, June 11, 8:00 p.m., at 1725 Sacramento Street (@ Van Ness), San Francisco, are $17 general, $14 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 (707) 474-7273, 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, and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com.<br />
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CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE:<br />
OLD FIRST CONCERTS PRESENTS<br />
Friday, June 11, at 8:00 p.m. Old First Church<br />
1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness<br />
San Francisco, CA<br />
(415) 474-1608<br />
<br />
<br />
SILENCE OF THE WOLVES<br />
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra,<br />
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Program:<br />
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John Beeman - Fancy Free<br />
Cindy Collins - Synesthesia<br />
Loren Jones - Wolf Wood<br />
Darius Milhaud - Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1-3<br />
Lisa Scola Prosek - Three Songs from 10 Days<br />
Martha Stoddard - Cowgirl Rondo <br />
Davide Verotta - An Enticement of Silence<br />
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Tickets: $17 general, $14 students and seniors, available through the Old First Church Box Office at (415) 474-1608, at the door, and at www.ticketweb.com.<br />
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More information at sfcco.org and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com</div>
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San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732600041937113394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350662456957609761.post-37464568583384409912010-02-20T20:00:00.000-08:002013-11-17T13:44:00.545-08:00February 20, 2010 - Return to Return to Sorrento<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl6iuuEE-BboumrBTbdguXBrgFOtdD_nwyBpEzu6bwuC9wcrfmKNzg5b8OyGCPakQMe_kE7RgRRE_Z5qgYS1GUZeUn5MRJcNFomFwQaxTXzaXAChB6risUUzQ6QvsVnWfb6QQDEtJfwBc/s1600-h/000009ItalySorrentoHarbor.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440435286556089522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl6iuuEE-BboumrBTbdguXBrgFOtdD_nwyBpEzu6bwuC9wcrfmKNzg5b8OyGCPakQMe_kE7RgRRE_Z5qgYS1GUZeUn5MRJcNFomFwQaxTXzaXAChB6risUUzQ6QvsVnWfb6QQDEtJfwBc/s400/000009ItalySorrentoHarbor.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
SAN FRANCISCO<br />
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA<br />
Mark Alburger, Music Director<br />
<br />
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br />
January 20, 2010 <br />
<br />
CONTACT:<br />
<br />
SFCCO (707) 474-7273 <br />
mus21stc@gmail.com<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PRESENTS<br />
"RETURN TO RETURN TO SORRENTO"<br />
8:00PM, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, OLD FIRST CHURCH,<br />
1725 SACRAMENTO STREET (AT VAN NESS), SAN FRANCISCO, CA<br />
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OLD FIRST, SAN FRANCISCO, AND WORLD PREMIERES OF WORKS BY<br />
JOHN BILOTTA, PHILIP FREIHOFNER, DAVID GRAVES, LOREN JONES,<br />
PHIL LOCKWOOD, LISA SCOLA PROSEK, KIT RUSCOE, MARTHA STODDARD, DAVIDE VEROTTA, ERLING WOLD, AND MARK ALBURGER<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO, January 20, 2010 -- Ever have a tune you couldn't get out of your head? The composers of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra find themselves returning to Ernesto de Curtis's Return to Sorrento (1902) in Return to Return to Sorrento -- on Saturday, February 20, at Old First Church -- evoking a sunny, post-El-Nino world of musical fact and fantasy from John Bilotta, Philip Freihofner, David Graves, Loren Jones, Phil Lockwood, Lisa Scola Prosek, Kit Ruscoe, Martha Stoddard, Davide Verotta, Erling Wold, and Mark Alburger.<br />
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The Return pieces -- a series of variations by Jones, Scola Prosek, Ruscoe, Verotta, Wold, and Alburger -- will be interwoven into a mix that will also feature Bilotta's back-to-the-future Quantum Mechanic (semi-staged in co-operation with Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera); David Graves's relatedly-apocalyptic Tickertape; Philip Freihofner and Phil Lockwood's evocative Vista and Blade of Grass; Martha Stoddard's enchanting Duo Concertante for Flute, Marimba, and Chamber Orchestra (featuring Bruce Salvisberg and Anne Szabla); Jones's adventurous Lost Plateau; and Alburger's frenetic-erotic-violent Salome Suite.<br />
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TICKET INFORMATION<br />
Tickets for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's "Return to Return to Sorrento" -- on Saturday, February 20, 8:00 p.m., at 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) 474-7273, 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, and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com.<br />
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CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE:<br />
OLD FIRST CONCERTS PRESENTS<br />
Saturday, February 20, at 8:00 p.m. <br />
Old First Church<br />
1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness<br />
San Francisco, CA<br />
(415) 474-1608<br />
<br />
<br />
RETURN TO RETURN TO SORRENTO<br />
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra<br />
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Program:<br />
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Mark Alburger - Salome Suite and Pini di Surriento<br />
John Bilotta - Quantum Mechanic<br />
Philip Freihofner - Vista<br />
David Graves - Tickertape<br />
Loren Jones - The Lost Plateau and Arrivederci Sorrento<br />
Phil Lockwood - A Blade of Grass<br />
Lisa Scola Prosek - Sorrento Canzonetta<br />
Kit Ruscoe - Sorrento<br />
Martha Stoddard - Duo Concertante for Flute, Marimba, and Chamber Orchestra <br />
Davide Verotta - Come back but where!? (Torna ma dove?!)<br />
Erling Wold - per Margherita Eugenia<br />
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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.<br />
<br />
More information at sfcco.org and markalburgerevents.blogspot.comSan Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732600041937113394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350662456957609761.post-83549504226216738302009-11-07T20:00:00.000-08:002013-11-17T14:54:39.611-08:00November 7, 2009 - Haunted House Science Fiction...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjONV5KJGCIwuk-tmStC2QS1CkX7TJxWt9fvrEmkw7NQSE7ecp8Ij_hJciJCsnW8nU0dK-0b_lkEuoUj6CXMFBUX-yilxyjNLaqsRQCD8He61JZab9mqpRCOgvdc4fjThFUh-2elKbgoeA/s1600-h/2002SFCCO091107HauntedHouseScienceFictionQuizShowPostcard.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401464742637856050" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjONV5KJGCIwuk-tmStC2QS1CkX7TJxWt9fvrEmkw7NQSE7ecp8Ij_hJciJCsnW8nU0dK-0b_lkEuoUj6CXMFBUX-yilxyjNLaqsRQCD8He61JZab9mqpRCOgvdc4fjThFUh-2elKbgoeA/s400/2002SFCCO091107HauntedHouseScienceFictionQuizShowPostcard.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
SAN FRANCISCO<br />
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA<br />
Mark Alburger, Music Director<br />
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<br />
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:<br />
October 7, 2009 SFCCO (707) 474-7273 mus21stc@gmail.com<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PRESENTS<br />
"HAUNTED HOUSE SCIENCE FICTION QUIZ SHOW"<br />
8:00PM, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, CHAPEL OF THE CHIMES,<br />
4499 PIEDMONT AVENUE, OAKLAND, CA<br />
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OAKLAND AND WORLD PREMIERES OF WORKS BY<br />
MICHAEL COOKE, PHILIP FREIHOFNER, LOREN JONES, LISA SCOLA PROSEK, GERHARD SAMUEL, DAVIDE VEROTTA, ERLING WOLD, AND<br />
MARK ALBURGER<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 5, 2009 -- Be afraid. Be very afraid, when San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra presents Haunted House Science Fiction Quiz Show, an evening of electro-acoustic fantasy, nightmares, and whimsy. In its premiere performance in Oakland (a short atomic-powered broomstick ride across the Bay) on Saturday, November 7 -- emcee Music Director Mark Alburger, glamorous Associate Conductor Martha Stoddard, and compositional contestants Michael Cooke, Philip Freihofner, Loren Jones, Lisa Scola Prosek, Gerhard Samuel, Davide Verotta, and Erling Wold will conjure up works sounding particularly haunting and resonant in the Julia-Morgan-designed crematory / columbarium / mausoleum Chapel of the Chimes (4499 Piedmont Avenue).<br />
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The séance begins in Freihofner's Electroacoustic Music for Oboe, which provides a door into The Secret Door, where Jones will invoke a fantasy alternative-universe San Francisco for piano four-hands.<br />
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Cooke calls forth another magic world "...with the Sprit of the Desert," an evocative work for violin, bassoon, and piano -- inspired by Big Bend National Park in West Texas, and conjuring up in the movements the ghosts of Paul Hindemith, Igor Stravinsky, and Native American Music. Across the great divide, poet Michael McDonough reanimates the genius of Samuel (1924-2008), who set McDonough's spare minimalist "3", as night and trees (for clarinet, soprano, and bongos), before departing himself into that good night.<br />
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Dreams and reality collide again in Scola Prosek's Roma, hallucinated (on Tylenol PM) at 20,000 feet in a high-tech jet of engine roars, footsteps, lyricism (graced by sopranos Maria Mikheyenko and the composer), and the chariots of the entire orchestra and Rome's fiery Vittorio Emanuele Monument. Staying in the surrealist, subalpine, soprani sequence -- Verotta's Verrà la Morte e Avrà i Tuoi Occhi (Death Will Come and Have Your Eyes) reminds us that there is nothing wrong with your ears, but that, for the evening, we are in control.<br />
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Meanwhile, Wold notes in Sweet Encumbrance that bondage-and-discipline can be fun, particularly when the ball-and-chain is the beloved other, in one of his trademark post-minimalist lovelies; while Alburger takes the theme literally for Elijah Ghost, in seven movements drawn from his opera-oratorio Elijah Rock, a twisted techno-take on the scientific fantasies of the Biblical Books of First and Second Kings.<br />
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But yet, as it turns out, fear ye not: this is not a test. This is Haunted House Science Fiction Quiz Show.<br />
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TICKET INFORMATION<br />
Tickets for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's "Haunted House Science Fiction Quiz Show" -- on Saturday, November 7, 8:00 p.m., at Chapel of the Chimes (4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA) -- are $15 general, $12 students and seniors. Tickets are available at the door. For more information, please call the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra at (707) 474-7273, or visit www.sfcco.org. Other links to the show may be found at myspace.com/sfcco, and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com.<br />
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CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE:<br />
CHAPEL OF THE CHIMES PRESENTS<br />
Saturday, November 7, at 8:00 p.m. Chapel of the Chimes<br />
4499 Piedmont Avenue<br />
Oakland, CA<br />
(707) 474-7273<br />
<br />
HAUNTED HOUSE SCIENCE FICTION QUIZ SHOW<br />
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra<br />
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Program:<br />
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Mark Alburger Elijah Ghost<br />
Michael Cooke ...with the Spirit of the Desert<br />
Philip Freihofner Electroacoustic Music for Oboe<br />
Loren Jones The Secret Door<br />
Lisa Scola Prosek Roma<br />
Gerhard Samuel Night and Trees<br />
Davide Verotta Verrà la Morte e Avrà i Tuoi Occhi<br />
Erling Wold Sweet Encumbrance<br />
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Tickets: $15 general, $12 students and seniors, available at (707) 474-7273 and at the door.<br />
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More information at sfcco.org and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO<br />
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA<br />
Mark Alburger, Music Director<br />
<br />
Haunted House Science Fiction Quiz Show<br />
<br />
8pm, Saturday, November 7, Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, CA<br />
Mark Alburger, Martha Stoddard, and Michael Cooke, conducting<br />
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Program<br />
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Philip Freihofner Electroacoustic Music for Oboe<br />
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Loren Jones The Secret Door<br />
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Gerhard Samuel night and trees (Michael McDonagh)<br />
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Lisa Scola Prosek Roma<br />
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Davide Verotta Verrà la Morte e Avrà i Tuoi Occhi<br />
(Death Will Come and Have Your Eyes)<br />
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Intermission<br />
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Erling Wold Sweet Encumbrance<br />
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Michael Cooke Open Ended<br />
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Mark Alburger Elijah Ghost (Suite from "Elijah Rock"), Op. 176 (2009)<br />
I. OUVERTURE (Rehoboam and Jereboam)<br />
II. ARIA - May (Jezebel and Elijah)<br />
III. RECITATIVO - Elijah (God and Elisha)<br />
IV. QUARTETTO - King (Benhadad and Ahab)<br />
V. QUARTETTO - Still<br />
(Ahab and a Member of a Group of Prophets)<br />
VI. DUETTO - Let (Ahab and Naboth)<br />
XII. ARIA - Jehoshaphat (Call and Chronology)<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA<br />
<br />
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor<br />
Erling Wold Associate Music Director<br />
John Kendall Bailey Associate Conductor<br />
Martha Stoddard Associate Conductor<br />
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Flute <br />
Martha Stoddard<br />
Piccolo<br />
Harry Bernstein<br />
Alto Flute<br />
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Oboe<br />
Phil Freihofner<br />
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Clarinet<br />
Rachel Condry<br />
Bass Clarinet<br />
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Bassoon<br />
Michael Cooke<br />
Tenor Sax<br />
Michael Garvey<br />
Lori Garvey<br />
Contrabassoon<br />
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Trumpet <br />
Cindy Collins<br />
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Piano<br />
Davide Verotta<br />
Lisa Scola Prosek<br />
Accordion<br />
Erling Wold<br />
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Percussion<br />
Victor Flaviano<br />
Anne Szalba<br />
Loren Jones<br />
Mark Alburger<br />
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Violin<br />
Mike Russo<br />
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Viola<br />
Clare Twohy<br />
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Cello<br />
Ariella Hyman<br />
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Soprano<br />
Maria Mikheyenko<br />
Lisa Scola Prosek<br />
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Voice<br />
Mark Alburger<br />
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MARK ALBURGER (April 2, 1957, Upper Darby, PA) studied with Gerald Levinson and Joan Panetti at Swarthmore College (B.A.), Karl Kohn at Pomona College, Jules Langert at Dominican University (M.A.), Tom Flaherty and Roland Jackson at Claremont Graduate University (Ph.D.), and Terry Riley. He is Founder and Music Director of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, Conductor of San Francisco Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions, and Instructor in Music Literature and Theory at Diablo Valley College. As Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music Monthly Journal (21st-centurymusic.com and 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com), he has interviewed many composers, including Charles Amirkhanian, Earle Brown, George Crumb, Philip Glass, Alan Hovhaness, Steve Mackey, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, and Steve Reich. Alburger has been the recipient of many honors, awards, and commissions -- including yearly ASCAP Standard Awards; grants from Meet the Composer, the American Composers Forum, MetLife, and Theatre Bay Area; funding from the Marra, Zellerbach, Hewlett, and Getty Foundations; and performances by ensembles and orchestras throughout the United States. Audience enthusiasm, critical response, and acclaim from colleagues have been consistent for Alburger's concert and dramatic works, which combine atonal, collage, neoclassic, pop, and postminimal sensibilities -- often in overall frameworks troped on pre-existent material. His complete works (including 16 concertos, 20 operas, nine symphonies, and the seven-hours-and-counting opera-oratorio The Bible) are being issued on recordings from New Music, available at markalburgerworks.blogspot.com. Alburger's Sex and the Bible: The Opera will be premiered next March at Flux 53 Theatre in Oakland (markalburgerevents.blogspot.com).<br />
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Elijah Ghost, Op. 176, is a suite derived from Elijah Rock, Op. 71, an opera-oratorio on I Kings:12 through II Kings -- pertaining to the establishment and fall of the Divided Kingdom of Israel and Judah. The music is a prophetic re-utterance of Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah, with minor revalations drawn from atonal fugue, swing, Alban Berg's Three Pieces for Orchestra (III) and Wozzeck (Act II:1 and Act III:4), rock'n'roll, minimalism, and 12-bar blues. The characters herein include the rival pretenders to the throne Jeroboam and Rehoboam, Queen Jezebel, Elijah, King Ahab and his nemesis/pseudo-brother Syrian Behadad, a slap-happy Member of a Group of Prophets and another eaten by a lion, the anti-developer Naboth, and a hit-list Reciter of Dead Rulers.<br />
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The multi-instrumentalist MICHAEL COOKE is a composer of jazz and classical music. This two-time Emmy, ASCAPLUS Awards and Louis Armstrong Jazz Award winner plays a variety of instruments: you can hear him on soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones, flute, soprano and bass clarinets, bassoon and percussion. A cum laude graduate with a music degree from the University of North Texas, he had many different areas of study; jazz, ethnomusicology, music history, theory and of course composition. In 1991 Michael began his professional orchestral career performing in many north Texas area symphonies. Michael has played in Europe, Mexico, and all over the United States. Cimarron Music Press began published many of Michael's compositions in 1994. After relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area, he has been exploring new paths in improvised and composed music, mixing a variety of styles and techniques that draw upon the creative energy of a multicultural experience, both in and out of America. In 1999, Michael started a jazz label called Black Hat Records and is currently on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra. The San Francisco Beacon describes Michael's music as "flowing out color and tone with a feeling I haven't heard in quite a while. Michael plays with such dimension and flavor that it sets (his) sound apart from the rest." Uncompromising, fiery, complex, passionate, and cathartic is how the All Music Guide labeled Michael's playing on Searching by Cooke Quartet, Statements by Michael Cooke and The Is by CKW Trio. His latest release, An Indefinite Suspension of The Possible, is an unusual mixture of woodwinds, trombone, cello, koto and percussion, creating a distinct synergy in improvised music that has previously been untapped. www.michaelkcooke.com.<br />
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Open-Ended is a very versatile work that will be composed before your eyes and ears. This work has no set instrumentation and can be played by any number of performers. It also has no set length; the piece could last 5 minutes or 24 hours. Based on Rova's Radar techniques, Open-Ended is less of a composition and more of a color or tool palette. It is an ever-growing collection of rules and games for the performers that are triggered by hand signals by the conductor/composer. The conductor / composer then composes the piece live using these hand signals to guide the performers. Open Ended has been performed several times but every time it is a world première and unique performance that can never be repeated.<br />
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PHILIP FREIHOFNER, oboist, synthesist and composer has been a member of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestrs since 2004.<br />
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"It's Only the Wind, for oboe and electronics, is dedicated to Jared Diamond, in appreciation for his tremendous work: Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. I've been particularly haunted by the story of Easter Island, a lush island when first settled, treeless half a century later. It's Only the Wind is partly an exploration of what could yet happen, here in the United States. The oboe is a grim protagonist, making melodic use of one of the darker modes, the phrygian, and various extended techniques such as multiphonics and combination tones, in a desolate and dangerous sonic landscape."<br />
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LOREN JONES, a native of San Francisco, began composing as a child. He studied with Tom Constantine and Alexis Alrich, and is currently with David Conte at the SF Conservatory of Music. His work has been performed by his own chamber group, by the SFCCO, and by students and teachers from around the Bay Area. He has produced many recordings, worked in radio and film, including creating a sound track for an animated short which won a special Academy Award. He was the recipient of a 2007 Meet the Composer Grant. Selections from Dancing on the Brink of the World, for chamber orchestra and period instruments, based on the history of San Francisco, has been an ongoing part of the repertoire of the past three seasons of Ssn Franisco Composers Chamber Orchestra concerts.<br />
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The Secret Door<br />
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In San Francisco, near a place called Baker Beach, out over the water<br />
about a hundred meters up in the sky, there is a secret door.<br />
It is invisible to humans, and only large enough for a crow or raven to fly through.<br />
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If you are lucky enough to be able to fly and also to make yourself small,<br />
then a friendly bird may show you the exact location.<br />
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This small opening in the fabric of our time leads into another world.<br />
The land and its contours are much the same as San Francisco,<br />
but there is no city, and the plants and animals are different.<br />
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In a small valley near a beach there lives a wise and powerful magician<br />
and his wife, who, being the only humans in this place,<br />
are happy to receive a visitor.......<br />
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LISA SCOLA PROSEK -- composer, librettist, soprano, pianist (“A gifted local composer” San Francisco Bay Guardian) -- was raised in Rome, Italy, and graduated from Princeton University, where she studied with Edward Cone and Milton Babbitt, and privately with Lukas Foss in New York. During this time, Lisa studied singing with Margherita Kalil of the Met. After Princeton, Lisa returned to Italy, where she attended the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini, and studied with composer Gaetano Giani-Luporini. To date, Scola Prosek has composed two oratorios, and five operas, in Italian and English, including Satyricon, reviewed by the San Francisco Observer as a “tour de force” and featured on KRON TV; and Leonardo’s Notebooks, in Italian, both of which premiered to capacity audiences, and were featured on NPR’s West Coast Live. The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly wrotes:” This composer’s work is steeped in the Mediterranean world of gestures, writ both big and small. Her vocal writing references bel canto and the madrigal, and the instrumental writing, with its shadowy inner voices, has character and point," while Sequenza 21 characterized the writing as "Intricate and highly expressive music.” Scola Prosek is the recipient of numerous commissions, grants and awards, including from the Argosy Foundation, for Belfagor, and from the LEF Foundation, Meet The Composer, The Hewlett Foundation, the Argosy Contemporary Music Fund, and the American Composers Forum for her opera Trap Door. Lisa also serves as General Manager of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra. Look for Lisa’s new opera, La Badessa, in 2010 based on Boccaccio's Decameron. Visit Lisa and her work on the web at lisascolaprosek.com, where video excerpts from Belfagor and Trap Door are posted.<br />
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"Flying back from Rome in August, I settled into my seat after taking a Tylenol PM to endure the trip. Soon a bizarre dream-like state overtook me, the low droning bass of the airplane engine became an ostinato, people walking by in the aisle were like woodwinds chattering past incoherently. Suddenly in the middle of this pleasant haze, the image of the chariots on the Vittorio Emanuele monument appeared before me, and I heard the melody and words of this song. Roma, for two sopranos and orchestra, is a loving tribute to the Eternal City."<br />
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German-Jewish composer GERHARD SAMUEL (April 20, 1924, Bonn - March 25, 2008, Seattle, WA) emigrated to the United States in 1939 with his parents and his sister Erika. He attended Eastman School, and Yale where he took composition classes with Paul Hindemith. Samuel studied conducting with Koussevitzky at Tanglewood, and served as violinist and associate conductor, under Minneapolis Symphony head Antal Dorati. He was one of the co-founders of the Cabrillo Festival, serving as its first music director (1962-1968), and revolutionized programming at the Oakland Symphony when he was its conductor from 1959-1971. He then became Zubin Mehta's assistant conductor at the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1970-1973). Samuel headed Cincinatti's College-Conservatory of Music from 1976-1997, where he transformed its orchestra, taking it on international tours and recording several CD's ranging from Schubert to Ives. He composed many striking pieces in all media, including two string quartets (for the La Salle and Essex); Transformations, for solo violin and string orchestra; a large orchestra piece, Requiem for Survivors "and suddenly it's evening..." (in memory of the Oakland Symphony's late conductor, Calvin Simmons); Looking at Orpheus Looking; Nocturne on an Impossible Dream; Auguri (conducted for his friend Lou Harrison, in a birthday tribute at the San Jose Symphony); and a series of chamber works with texts by Los Angeles-based poet Jack Larson.<br />
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Librettist MICHAEL MCDONAGH (b. May 20, 1951, Fresno, California) attended grade school in Fresno, San Jose, Livermore, Concord (CA), Mt Prospect, and Arlington Height (IL). He studied English literature at Loyola University, Chicago, spent a year abroad at its Rome Center, and graduated from Loyola-Marymount University, Los Angeles. McDonagh has written many critical pieces and profiles on the arts for The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Review of Books, The Advocate, Stagebill, In Tune, The Three Penny Review, Keyboard, Antiques and Fine Art, and many other publications. He currently serves as staff arts critic for San Francisco's Bay Area Reporter www.eBAR.com -- and also writes for www.alexnorthmusic.com, www.culturevulture.net, www.sequenza21.com, www.classical-music-review.org, and 21st-Century Music. His poetry has been published in El Playano, Anemone, Mouth of The Dragon, Mirage, and Stanford's poetry journal, Mantis, and he continues to at work on many poems, which have been published singly and as related cycles. McDonagh has done two poem-picture books with San Francisco-based painter Gary Bukovnik -- Before I Forget (1991) and Once (1997), and has written two pieces for the stage -- Touch and Go, for three voices, staged by Zack's Common Cultural Practice at San Francisco's Venue 9, in 1998, and Sight Unseen (1999-2000) -- a theatre pece for performer Jennifer Taggart.<br />
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"night and trees is a three-stanza poem originally titled 3, which dates from my stripped-down 'minmalist' period when I was concerned with problems of rhythmic structure, and used lots of syncopation and sometimes regular straight-ahead rhythms in place of conventional anecdotal content, which is the common practice in most 'mainstream' American poetry. night and trees is Gerhard Samuel's setting of this short lyric which he chose from among 20 or so poems I sent him as possible candidates. The collaboration was as hands-off as could be, as I think that composers should, in the song form at least, be allowed to follow their own instincts. Poems in particular, and art in general, are, after all, as poet Tristan Tzara once said "a private bell for inexplicable needs." Everyone hears differently and Samuel heard night and trees with acute sensitivity. I owe my encouragement to being 'set' to two people: New York friend of many years, Peter Klein, and pianist Melissa Smith, who suggested I contact The American Music Center, New York, when she worked for Kronos Quartet -- which is how I met Samuel, whose work I'd admired for years. Gerhard dedicated night and trees to his composer friend of many years, Pia Gilbert. I would like to dedicate this performance to Pia Gilbert, as well as to the memory of Gerhard Samuel and his surviving companiion and dear friend Achim Nicklis."<br />
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night and trees<br />
and if there are not trees<br />
then music and breathing in the night the trees<br />
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night and you<br />
and if there is not you<br />
then there is the thought of you<br />
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and you are breathing<br />
as the night is breathing<br />
you<br />
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DAVIDE VEROTTA was born in a boring Italian town close to Milano and moved to the very much more exciting San Francisco in his late 20's. He studied piano and music in Milano with Isabella Zielonka, Ernesto Esposito, and Giacinto Salvetti, and in San Francisco with Renee Witon, Peggy Salkind, Robert Helps, and Julian White. He teaches piano in his home studio and at the Community Music Center in San Francisco, and performs regularly in the BayAarea as a piano soloist, with multiple appearances at the Trinity Chamber, St Timothy, Piedmont Piano, Chapel of the Chimes, and Lakeshore Presbytarian concert series. For the last three years he has been pianist with the San Francisco Composers' Chamber Orchestra. Composition is a more recent endeavor (with graduate studies at San Francisco State University with Richard Festinger, Josh Levine, and at the University of California at Davis with Kurt Rode and Laurie San Martin), but it is little-by-little coming to dominate as his main musical interest. Davide’s music is vaguely intertwined with a lifelong academic occupation in mathematical modeling of biological systems. Although this might generate the familiar reaction ("Ah! Musicians and Math!"), Davide admits that the relationship of music and mathematics still eludes him. For more information, upcoming solo recitals, and premieres of his compositions please visit his web site at http://davide.gpibird.net/<br />
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"Verrà la Morte e Avrà i Tuoi Occhi is a piece for chamber orchestra and two soprani about the acceptance, or awareness, of death, life passing by, and the longing for the beautiful days we must leave behind. The two sopranos sing:<br />
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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi belli,<br />
e le tue labbra<br />
e il cuore.<br />
Verrà la morte<br />
ma ricorda i miei baci<br />
e il mare<br />
il verde<br />
e le giornate nel sole<br />
(Death will come and will have your<br />
beautiful eyes, and your lips,<br />
and the heart.<br />
Death will come<br />
but remember my kisses,<br />
and the sea,<br />
the green,<br />
and the days in the sun.)<br />
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The inspiration for the piece comes from the location for its premiere (the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, a beautiful building by Julia Morgan); a memory: the song La Morte by Fabrizio de André, a popular Italian songwriter active in the 70's-90's; and a recent find (thank you, Google): a rather dark poem with the same title published by the Italian poet Cesare Pavese in 1960. My text tries to deliver a happier overtone: somewhere around the somberly playful de André, and well to the left of the dark poem by Pavese."<br />
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ERLING WOLD is a composer and ex-libertine. Last year saw the premiere of two large works, his Missa Beati Notkeri Balbuli Sancti Galli Monachi in St Gallen, Switzerland, and his solo opera Mordake for tenor John Duykers in the San Francisco International Arts Festival, both of which are slated for CD release this year. He produced an ecstatic noise-music collaboration with fognozzle this year, and is now at work on a couple of new operas as well as a new production of his opera Queer in New York and San Francisco. All his operas so far, including those above as well as Sub Pontio Pilato and A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil, and featured in an upcoming series of DVD releases of experimental operas on MinMax to appear over the next year.<br />
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"Continuing with the treacly investigation of romance and its elations, its euphoric pleasures, begun with Two Orchestral Waltzes for Lynne, the current work, Sweet Encumbrance, makes manifest, in sound, the joyous warmth, the sweet iron fetters and the small panics which flow from hog-tying oneself together with one's chosen helpmeet and companion. In this piece, it is demonstrated in some detail how much one can gain in life simply by giving up one's philandering, and -- while still given license to strut and flirt and still authorized to play the dandy -- one must now, for the foreseeable future, festoon one's costume with the leash and collar and electronic ankle bracelet, sometimes visible but most often invisible, like the line that one might be enticed to cross save for the memories of the previous attempts' resultant truncheoning and electric shocks. But let us not dwell on such past pains, but please to look to that bright future world illumined by the brightest and whitest of most pure light where, joined in glory and set upon one's throne just to the right of the Empress, in a new Sagrada Familia, happily holding court, happily holding the hand of the one most-beloved."<br />
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A native of St. Petersburg, MARIA MIKHEYENKO has sung with the Russian Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Russian Festival, and presents recitals of Russian Romances throughout the Bay Area. Opera credits include Berkeley Opera, Pocket Opera, Capitol Opera Sacramento, Bay Shore Lyric Opera, Opera Lafayette, Oakland Opera Theater, and the Austrian American Mozart Academy of Salzburg. In the world of contemporary music, she is a frequent collaborator with Bay Area composers. She has performed in three world premiere works by Lisa Scola Prosek: Leonardo’s Notebooks, Belfagor, and Trap Door. With San Francisco Cabaret Opera, she has multiple San Francisco and world premiere roles in Mark Alburger's operas (including Lennie Small in Mice and Men, Delilah in Sex and Delilah, and Edward Gibbon in Diocletian: A Pagan Opera), as well as portraying The Prophetess in Henry Purcell’s Dioclesian and a Quark Sister in John Bilotta’s Quantum Mechanic. Ms. Mikheyenko has been a guest artist on the national radio show West Coast Live! and is a member of the award-winning Pacific Mozart Ensemble, collaborating with artists such as Meredith Monk and Dave Brubeck.<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO<br />
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA<br />
Mark Alburger, Music Director<br />
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br />
May 5, 2009 <br />
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CONTACT:<br />
SFCCO (707) 451-0714 <br />
mus21stc@gmail.com<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PRESENTS<br />
"DREAMS OF THE RESTLESS"<br />
8:00PM, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, OLD FIRST CHURCH,<br />
1725 SACRAMENTO STREET (AT VAN NESS), SAN FRANCISCO<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO AND WORLD PREMIERES OF WORKS BY<br />
MICHAEL COOKE, ALLAN CROSSMAN, PHILIP FREIHOFNER, LOREN JONES, LISA SCOLA PROSEK, DAVIDE VEROTTA, ERLING WOLD AND FOGNOZZLE, AND MARK ALBURGER<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 5, 2009 -- To dream, perchance to sleep. Not a chance of the latter, as the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra presents Dreams of the Restless, 8pm, Saturday, June 13, at Old First Church in San Francisco. Composers Michael Cooke, Allan Crossman, Philip Freihofner, Loren Jones, Lisa Scola Prosek, Davide Verotta, Erling Wold, Fognozzle, and Mark Alburger will explore the world of suggestion and dreams, inspired by abstract ponderings, restless fears, and childlike hopes in all new compositions, featuring exotic instruments, tribal rhythms, and a fantastic light show.<br />
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Cooke's <span style="font-style: italic;">A Child Sleeps</span> sets the musical cradle rocking with variations on a Chinese lullaby graced by the addition of sheng and gucheng, as performed by the composer and Gangqin Zhao. Crossman ups the ante in <span style="font-style: italic;">Plasticity</span> by scoring for a unique instrument -- the Sonoglyph, an invention of featured soloist Tom Nunn.<br />
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Not to be outdone in the otherworldly capacity, Jones hallucinates worlds of music in <span style="font-style: italic;">Eagle Bear Woman</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Two Islands</span>, in respective homages to Native American and Indonesian traditions.<br />
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While the nightmare of a natural world gone awry is captured in Scola Prosek's <span style="font-style: italic;">Voodoo Storm</span>, Wold and Fognozzle's<span style="font-style: italic;"> In the Stomach of Fleas</span> takes its malaise from outbreaks of bubonic before and after the great San Francisco Earthquake. Also earthshattering will be Freihofner's monumental<span style="font-style: italic;"> Obelisk</span>, Verotta's enigmatic <span style="font-style: italic;">Verso L'immagine Feroce,</span> and Alburger's <span style="font-style: italic;">King David Suite (The Young and the Restless)</span>, in three portraits of angst-ridden youth (David, Jonathan, and Absalom).<br />
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TICKET INFORMATION<br />
Tickets for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's "Dreams of the Restless" on Saturday, May 13, 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, and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com.<br />
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CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE:<br />
OLD FIRST CONCERTS PRESENTS<br />
Saturday, May 13, at 8:00 p.m. <br />
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Old First Church<br />
1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness<br />
San Francisco, CA<br />
(415) 474-1608<br />
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DREAMS OF THE RESTLESS<br />
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra<br />
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Program:<br />
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Mark Alburger - King David Suite (The Young and the Restless)<br />
Michael Cooke - A Baby Sleeps<br />
Alan Crossman - Plasticity, for Sonoglyph and Chamber Orchestra<br />
Philip Freihofner - Obelisk<br />
Loren Jones - Eagle Bear Woman and Two Islands<br />
Lisa Scola Prosek - Voodoo Storm<br />
Davide Verotta - Verso L'immagine Feroce<br />
Erling Wold and Fognozzle - In the Stomach of Fleas<br />
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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.<br />
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More information at sfcco.org and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO<br />
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA<br />
Mark Alburger, Music Director<br />
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:<br />
January 18, 2009 SFCCO (707) 451-0714 mus21stc@gmail.com<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PRESENTS<br />
"FREE-FOR-ALL (BUT FOR YOU, $15)"<br />
8:00PM, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, OLD FIRST CHURCH,<br />
1725 SACRAMENTO STREET (AT VAN NESS), SAN FRANCISCO<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO AND WORLD PREMIERES OF 11 WORKS, BY<br />
JOHN BEEMAN, MICHAEL COOKE, PHILIP FREIHOFNER, GARY FRIEDMAN, DAVID GRAVES, LOREN JONES, LISA SCOLA PROSEK, DAVID SPRUNG, CLARE TWOHY, DAVIDE VEROTTA, ERLING WOLD, AND MARK ALBURGER<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO, January 18, 2007 -- Hiya friends, Music Director Mark Alburger here, with the largest set of new and pre-owned new-music premieres from the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, here at Old First Church (1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness) at 8pm on February 28.<br />
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Let's just take a look at the extras of this beautiful new program by composers John Beeman, Michael Cooke, Philip Freihofner, Gary Friedman, David Graves, Loren Jones, Lisa Scola Prosek, David Sprung, Clare Twohy, Davide Verotta, Erling Wold, and Mark Alburger.<br />
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In <span style="font-style: italic;">String Theory,</span> Cooke cooks up a drive-in pasta house of quantum mechanics and general relativity, featuring graphical notation and improvisation for the entire 23-piece ensemble. In similarity and contrast, Freihofner's <span style="font-style: italic;">What Are You Going to Dream Tonight</span> is a compact dream-deal of free writing for mixed quartet of oboe, clarinet, electric keyboard, and viola. Continuing in the economical use of forces is the Wind Sextet of Friedman, and John Beeman's <span style="font-style: italic;">Adago</span>, after which David Graves and Clare Twohy team up for a fire sale in the collaborative <span style="font-style: italic;">Fireproof Winds.</span><br />
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In another joint-deal Scola Prosek presents a <span style="font-style: italic;">Serenade for Trumpet</span>, based on a melody by her soloist son Eduard and the drive-in movie side of film noir. Jones takes up related cinematic connections by taking on all customers in <span style="font-style: italic;">February's Children</span>, with added options of electric guitar and bass, harp, synthesizer, and three percussionists.<br />
<br />
Sprung's sprung <span style="font-style: italic;">Serendipities</span> is an ambitious deluxe package for double-dealing large ensemble, followed by the add-on, hallucinogenic <span style="font-style: italic;">Yanitl</span>, from wheeler-dealer Verotta. And to sew up the deal, we take to the back seat (although taking a back seat to none) in Wold's bawdy-improper <span style="font-style: italic;">Two Waltzes for Lynne</span> and Alburger's deliciously inappropriate <span style="font-style: italic;">Sex and the Orchestra.</span><br />
<br />
It's a beautiful program, friends, with chords to match. <span style="font-style: italic;">Free-for-All (But for You, $15)</span>!<br />
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***<br />
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TICKET INFORMATION<br />
<br />
Tickets for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's "Free-for-all (but for you, $15)" on February 28, 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, and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com.<br />
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CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE:<br />
OLD FIRST CONCERTS PRESENTS<br />
Saturday, February 28, at 8:00 p.m. Old First Church<br />
1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness<br />
San Francisco, CA<br />
(415) 474-1608<br />
<br />
FREE-FOR-ALL (BUT FOR YOU, $15)<br />
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra<br />
<br />
Program:<br />
<br />
Mark Alburger <span style="font-style: italic;">Sex and the Orchestra</span><br />
John Beeman <span style="font-style: italic;"> Adagio</span><br />
Michael Cooke String Theory<br />
Philip Freihofner <span style="font-style: italic;"> What Are You Going to Dream Tonight?</span><br />
Gary Friedman <span style="font-style: italic;">Romance for Wind Sextet</span><br />
David Graves / Clare Twohy <span style="font-style: italic;"> Fireproof Winds</span><br />
Loren Jones <span style="font-style: italic;">February's Children</span><br />
Lisa Scola Prosek <span style="font-style: italic;"> Serenade for Trumpet</span><br />
David Sprung<span style="font-style: italic;"> Serendipities </span><br />
Davide Verotta<span style="font-style: italic;"> Yanitl</span><br />
Erling Wold <span style="font-style: italic;">Two Orchestral Waltzes for Lynne</span><br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
More information at <a href="http://sfcco.org/">sfcco.org</a> and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com<br />
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***<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO<br />
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA<br />
Mark Alburger, Music Director<br />
<br />
Free-for-All (But for You, $15)<br />
<br />
8pm, Saturday, February 28, Old First Church, San Francisco, CA<br />
Mark Alburger, David Sprung, Martha Stoddard, and Erling Wold, conducting<br />
<br />
Program<br />
<br />
Phil Freihofner - <span style="font-style: italic;">What Are You Going to Dream Tonight </span><br />
<br />
Davide Verotta - <span style="font-style: italic;">Yanitl </span><br />
<br />
John Beeman - <span style="font-style: italic;">Adagio</span><br />
<br />
Gary Friedman - <span style="font-style: italic;">Romance for Wind Sextet</span><br />
<br />
Lisa Scola Prosek - <span style="font-style: italic;">Serenade for Trumpet</span><br />
<br />
<br />
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David Sprung - <span style="font-style: italic;">Serendipities</span><br />
<br />
Intermission<br />
<br />
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Erling Wold - <span style="font-style: italic;">Two Orchestral Waltzes for Lynne</span><br />
I. Ludmilla Waltz<br />
II. Empress Waltz<br />
<br />
Mark Alburger - <span style="font-style: italic;">Sex and the Orchestra</span>, Op. 171<br />
I. Happy Funeral Music (The Little Death)<br />
II. Downfall (Detumescence)<br />
<br />
Michael Cooke - <span style="font-style: italic;">String Theory</span><br />
<br />
David Graves / Clare Twohy -<span style="font-style: italic;"> Fireproof Winds</span><br />
<br />
Loren Jones - <span style="font-style: italic;">February's Children</span><br />
***<br />
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Rehearsal pictures may be found at<br />
<br />
<a href="http://markalburger2009.blogspot.com/">markalburger2009.blogspot.com</a><br />
<br />
dated February 19, 22, 26, and 27.San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732600041937113394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350662456957609761.post-68927001977977381812008-11-08T20:00:00.000-08:002013-11-17T12:52:44.989-08:00November 8, 2008 - Moving Targets<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA<br />
Mark Alburger, Music Director<br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>Moving Targets</i><br />
<br />
Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 8 pm<br />
Old First Presbyterian Church<br />
1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109<br />
<br />
Martha Stoddard, conducting<br />
<br />
Program<br />
<br />
Gary Friedman<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<i> Octet for Winds </i> <br />
Meanderings<br />
On The Go<br />
<br />
Davide Verotta<br />
<i>Sinfonia Per Orchestra da Camera</i> <br />
<br />
Lisa Scola Prosek<br />
<i>Badessa</i> <br />
I. La Badessa<br />
II. Little Fast Ones <br />
<br />
Intermission<br />
<br />
Sheli Nan<br />
<i> Signatures in Time and Place</i> <br />
I. Romanesque<br />
II. The Corinthian Order<br />
<br />
Clare Twohy<br />
<i> untitled </i><br />
<br />
Martha Stoddard<br />
<i>In Search of Planet X</i> <br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Flute<br />
Bruce Salvisberg<br />
Harry Bernstein<br />
<br />
Oboe<br />
Phil Freihofner<br />
Gary Friedman<br />
<br />
Clarinet<br />
Rachel Condry<br />
David Treganowen<br />
<br />
Bassoon<br />
Michael Cooke<br />
Michael Garvey<br />
Lori Garvey<br />
<br />
French Horn<br />
Cathleen Torres<br />
Frank Lahorgue<br />
<br />
Trumpet<br />
Pierce Yamaoka<br />
<br />
Piano<br />
Davide Verotta<br />
<br />
Percussion<br />
Victor Flaviani<br />
Anne Szabla<br />
Davide Verotta<br />
Alexis Alrich<br />
<br />
Violin I<br />
Monika Gruber<br />
<br />
Violin II<br />
Hande Erdem<br />
<br />
Viola<br />
Clare Twohy<br />
<br />
Cello<br />
Dan Reiter<br />
Moses Sedler<br />
<br />
Bass<br />
Ellen LinSan Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732600041937113394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350662456957609761.post-72731933780427993242008-06-07T20:00:00.000-07:002013-11-17T14:55:38.295-08:00June 7, 2008 - Variations on the Ghost of Sousa...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnpujMJS8pYLj804Mo_H2qLCSVzBI2Cio-8YSkTyhLmpU3VtTBPksUxfS9hHCFNayDvuoGB80OGrMR9EB8eyhI7EUEz-GEIgaytLOxFI9cClOf4Hm5EUMHZst_Bf2T11VVo60v1v-bWIM/s1600-h/1854SousaJohnPhilipSousa-Chickering.LOC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5196193605496600786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnpujMJS8pYLj804Mo_H2qLCSVzBI2Cio-8YSkTyhLmpU3VtTBPksUxfS9hHCFNayDvuoGB80OGrMR9EB8eyhI7EUEz-GEIgaytLOxFI9cClOf4Hm5EUMHZst_Bf2T11VVo60v1v-bWIM/s400/1854SousaJohnPhilipSousa-Chickering.LOC.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />
SAN FRANCISCO<br />
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA<br />
Mark Alburger, Music Director<br />
<br />
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br />
May 1, 2008<br />
<br />
CONTACT: <br />
SFCCO (707) 451-0714<br />
mus21stc@aol.com<br />
<br />
SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PRESENTS<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">VARIATIONS ON THE GHOST OF SOUSA DANCING</span><br />
<br />
8:00PM, SATURDAY, JUNE 7,<br />
OLD FIRST CHURCH,<br />
1725 SACRAMENTO STREET (AT VAN NESS), SAN FRANCISCO<br />
<br />
SAN FRANCISCO AND WORLD PREMIERES OF WORKS BY<br />
<br />
ALLAN CROSSMAN,<br />
GARY FRIEDMAN,<br />
LOREN JONES, AND<br />
<br />
A COLLABORATIVE COMPOSITION BY<br />
<br />
MARK ALBURGER,<br />
ALEXIS ALRICH,<br />
JOHN BEEMAN,<br />
HARRY BERNSTEIN,<br />
MICHAEL COOKE,<br />
DAVID GRAVES,<br />
LOREN JONES, AND<br />
ERLING WOLD<br />
<br />
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), <span style="font-style: italic;">Variations on the Ghost of Sousa Dancing</span>, an evening of cheeky variance and the state of our unions.<br />
<br />
The centerpiece will be an eight-composer collaboration, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Sousa Variations,</span> based on John Philip Sousa's <span style="font-style: italic;">The Stars and Stripes Forever</span>, which will be given a topsy-turvy treatment -- literally turned upside-down -- in Michael Cooke's <span style="font-style: italic;">Stripes and Stars</span>. "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.<br />
<br />
The conspiracy continues in David Graves's sepulchral <span style="font-style: italic;">Sousa Variance</span>, a darkly meditative turn in tandem with Erling Wold's freshly-inspired <span style="font-style: italic;">On the Death of David Blakely</span>. If some honor and tweak the music, others obliterate it, as Mark Alburger's double-homage to the March King and Charles Ives in <span style="font-style: italic;">Variations on Americana</span>. And, for true mystery, marching orders by Alexis Alrich, John Beeman, and Harry Bernstein will sure to inspire.<br />
<br />
America. Gotta love it. Or march out and leave it -- for Canada in the spirit of <span style="font-style: italic;">Coastal Ghost</span>, where Allan Crossman provides northern chills and thrills on a Nova Scotian legend -- or even farther afield for China, in Gary Friedman's Olympian <span style="font-style: italic;">Concerto for Erhu and Orchestra</span>.<br />
<br />
As for those who stay, there's never a time to be satisfied with received norms, as Jones will remind us further in <span style="font-style: italic;">Haight-Ashberry</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Castro</span>, two movements of his historic <span style="font-style: italic;">Dancing on the Brink of the World</span>.<br />
<br />
Maybe music can change the state of the universe... Can't we all... just... get along?<br />
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TICKET INFORMATION<br />
Tickets for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's <span style="font-style: italic;">Variations on the Ghost of Sousa Dancing</span> 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 <a href="http://www.oldfirstconcerts.org/">www.oldfirstconcerts.org</a> and <a href="http://www.sfcco.org/">www.sfcco.org</a>. Tickets are also available at <a href="http://www.ticketweb.com/">www.ticketweb.com</a>. Other links to the show may be found at <a href="http://www.myspace.com/sfcco">myspace.com/sfcco</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/blackhatrecords">myspace.com/blackhatrecords</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/erlingwold">myspace.com/erlingwold</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/markalburger">myspace.com/markalburger</a>, and <a href="http://www.markalburgerevents.blogspot.com/">markalburgerevents.blogspot.com</a>.<br />
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CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE:<br />
<br />
OLD FIRST CONCERTS PRESENTS<br />
<br />
Saturday, June 7, at 8:00 p.m.<br />
<br />
Old First Church<br />
1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness<br />
San Francisco, CA<br />
(415) 474-1608<br />
<br />
VARIATIONS ON THE GHOST OF SOUSA DANCING<br />
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra<br />
<br />
Program:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Coastal Ghost</span> (Allan Crossman)<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Theme and Variations for Erhu and Orchestra</span> (Gary Friedman)<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Dancing on the Brink of the World: Haight Ashberry</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Castro</span> (Loren Jones)<br />
<br />
and<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">The Sousa Variations</span><br />
<br />
an eight-movement collaboration consisting of<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Variations on Americana</span> (Mark Alburger)<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Stripes and Stars</span> (Michael Cooke)<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Sousa Variance</span> (David Graves)<br />
S<span style="font-style: italic;">tars and Stripes for Desert</span> (Loren Jones)<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">On the Death of David Blakely</span> (Erling Wold)<br />
and music of Alexis Alrich,<br />
John Beeman, and<br />
Harry Bernstein<br />
<br />
Tickets:$15 general, $12 students and seniors, available through the Old First Church Box Office at (415) 474-1608, at the door, and at <a href="http://www.ticketweb.com/">www.ticketweb.com</a>.<br />
<br />
More information and pictures at <a href="http://www.sfcco.org/">sfcco.org</a> and <a href="http://www.markalburgerevents.blogspot.com/">markalburgerevents.blogspot.com</a>San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732600041937113394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350662456957609761.post-12674160093908530232008-03-08T20:00:00.000-08:002013-11-17T11:54:45.357-08:00March 8, 2008 - March Madness<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXSC-D41ulXR-mDMRocEaPKw6nACk2FlcHpAD6ZmZ_4KWbQ49UgfJC0sonRegPcHGDUpvtaEpNxz3qSL24SNRWQYbQ8wrYW7AercXMdRjzTJ7vNmUBNPwkbh472nV26RQqwywrNd5MVwQ/s1600-h/2002SFCCO080308MarchMadness.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173074415334818818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXSC-D41ulXR-mDMRocEaPKw6nACk2FlcHpAD6ZmZ_4KWbQ49UgfJC0sonRegPcHGDUpvtaEpNxz3qSL24SNRWQYbQ8wrYW7AercXMdRjzTJ7vNmUBNPwkbh472nV26RQqwywrNd5MVwQ/s400/2002SFCCO080308MarchMadness.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />
SAN FRANCISCO<br />
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA<br />
Mark Alburger, Music Director<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">March Madness</span><br />
8pm, March 8, Old First Church, 1725 Sacramento Street (at Van Ness), San Francisco, CA<br />
Mark Alburger, John Kendall Bailey, and Martha Stoddard, conducting<br />
<br />
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Program<br />
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Philip Freihofner - <span style="font-style: italic;">The Bell Field</span><br />
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Martha Stoddard - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Little Trip to Outer Space</span><br />
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Lisa Scola Prosek - <span style="font-style: italic;">Chain Saw</span><br />
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Alexis Alrich - <span style="font-style: italic;">Fragile Forests</span>: II Cambodia<br />
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Intermission<br />
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Dan Reiter - <span style="font-style: italic;">Toccata and Fugue</span><br />
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Michael Cooke - <span style="font-style: italic;">Sun and Moon</span><br />
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Erling Wold - <span style="font-style: italic;">Mordake</span><br />
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SAN FRANCISCO<br />
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA<br />
Mark Alburger, Music Director<br />
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:<br />
February 10, 2008 SFCCO (707) 451-0714 mus21stc@aol.com<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PRESENTS<br />
"MARCH MADNESS"<br />
8:00PM, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, OLD FIRST CHURCH,<br />
1725 SACRAMENTO STREET (AT VAN NESS), SAN FRANCISCO<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO AND WORLD PREMIERES OF WORKS BY<br />
ALEXIS ALRICH, MICHAEL COOKE, PHILIP FREIHOFNER,<br />
MARTHA STODDARD, DAN REITER, AND ERLING WOLD<br />
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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.<br />
Why do we do what we do? Because we can't do otherwise?<br />
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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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TICKET INFORMATION<br />
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<br />
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CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE:<br />
OLD FIRST CONCERTS PRESENTS<br />
Saturday, March 8, at 8:00 p.m. Old First Church<br />
1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness<br />
San Francisco, CA<br />
(415) 474-1608<br />
<br />
MARCH MADNESS<br />
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra<br />
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Program:<br />
<br />
Alexis Alrich - Fragile Forests: II Cambodia<br />
Michael Cooke - Sun and Moon<br />
Philip Freihofner - The Bell Field<br />
Dan Reiter - Toccata and Fugue<br />
Martha Stoddard - A Little Trip to Outer Space<br />
Erling Wold - Mordake<br />
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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.<br />
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More information at sfcco.org and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com<br />
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Flute<br />
<br />
Bruce Salvisberg<br />
Harry Bernstein<br />
Martha Stoddard<br />
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<br />
Oboe<br />
<br />
Philip Freihofner<br />
Sarah Rathke<br />
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Clarinet<br />
<br />
Rachel Condry<br />
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Bassoon<br />
<br />
Michael Cooke<br />
Michael Garvey<br />
Lori Garvey<br />
Karla Ekholm<br />
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Trumpet<br />
<br />
Josh Silva<br />
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<br />
Horn<br />
<br />
David Sprung<br />
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Vocalist<br />
<br />
Charya Burt<br />
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<br />
Piano<br />
<br />
Alexis Alrich<br />
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<br />
Synthesizer<br />
<br />
Erling Wold<br />
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Percussion<br />
<br />
Victor Flaviani<br />
Anne Szalba<br />
Delphean Quan<br />
Greg Simmons<br />
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<br />
Violin I<br />
<br />
Monika Gruber<br />
Clare Twohy<br />
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Violin II<br />
<br />
Hande Erdem<br />
Mari Morikawa<br />
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<br />
Viola<br />
<br />
Charith Premawardhana<br />
Katrina Wreede<br />
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<br />
Cello<br />
<br />
Dan Reiter<br />
Paul Rhodes<br />
Beth Snellings<br />
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<br />
Bass<br />
<br />
Richard Duke<br />
<br />
<br />
Endowers<br />
<br />
David Graves<br />
Lisa Scola Prosek<br />
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<br />
Recording Engineer<br />
<br />
Karen Stackpole<br />
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Rehearsal 1, February 28, 2008, Potrero Hill Neighborhood House Theatre, SF<br />
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Scola Prosek, Stoddard, Condry, Szalba, Salvisberg, Simmons, Freihofner, Rathke, Sprung, Erdem, Morikawa<br />
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Stoddard, Condry, Salvisberg, Szalba, Freihofner<br />
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Bernstein, Duke<br />
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Simmons, Salvisberg, Freihofner, Rathke, Sprung<br />
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Erdem, Morikawa, Condry, Silva, Wold, Premawardhana<br />
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Ekholm, Cooke, M. Garvey, L. Garvey, Duke<br />
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Sprung, Ekholm, Premawardhana, Cooke, M. Garvey, L. Garvey, Alrich<br />
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L. Garvey, Duke, Reiter<br />
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Sprung, Wold<br />
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L. Garvey, Rhodes, Kendall Bailey, Gruber, Premawardhana, Erdem, M. Garvey, Quan, Silva, Condry, Salvisberg, Cooke<br />
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Szalba, Simmons<br />
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Quan, Szalba, Simmons<br />
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Simmons, Quan, Szalba<br />
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Gruber, Salvisberg, Scola Prosek, Freihofner, Erdem, Morikawa, Simmons<br />
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Erdem, Szalba, Morikawa, Sprung, Silva, Ekholm, Premawardhana, M. Garvey<br />
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Szalba, Premawardhana, Simmons, Ekholm<br />
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Cooke, Wold, Rhodes, M. Garvey, Reiter, Snellings<br />
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Duke, Reiter, Stoddard<br />
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Silva, Alrich<br />
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Scola Prosek, Silva<br />
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Kendall Bailey, Simmons<br />
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Scola Prosek, Szalba, Wold<br />
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Erdem, Duke, Reiter, Stoddard, Rhodes, Gruber<br />
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Freihofner, Sprung, Wold, Condry, Silva, Erdem<br />
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Salvisberg, Freihofner, Simmons, Erdem, Gruber, Morikawa, Ekholm, Premawardhana, Cooke, Kendall Bailey<br />
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Wold, Scola Prosek<br />
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Rehearsal 2, March 2, 2008, Potrero Hill Neighborhood House Theatre, SF<br />
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Freihofner, Rathke, Sprung, Erdem, Twohy, Cooke, Wreede, M. Garvey, Premawardhana, Gruber, L. Garvey, Bailey<br />
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Tom Prosek, Flaviani<br />
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Rehearsal 4 (Dress), Old First Church, SF<br />
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Bernstein, Szalba, Salvisberg, Freihofner<br />
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Bernstein, Gruber, Alrich, Twohy, Flaviani, Erdem, Quan<br />
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Freihofner, Erdem, Rathke, Morikawa, Szalba, Ekholm, Premawardhana, Cooke<br />
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Freihofner, Condry, Sprung, Silver, Cooke, M. Garvey<br />
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Twohy, Alrich, Flaviani, Erdem, Freihofner, Quan, Morikawa, Szalba, Condry<br />
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Erdem, Spurng, Cooke, Morikawa, M. Garvey, Premawardhana<br />
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Alrich, Flaviani<br />
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Reiter, Duke<br />
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Twohy, Bernstein, Morikawa, M. Garvey, L. Garvey, Premawardhana, Rhodes, Snellings, Gruber, Bailey<br />
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M. Garvey, Erdem, Premawardhana, Duke, Reiter, Stoddard, Gruber<br />
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Salvisberg, Freihofner, Ekholm, Sprung, Cooke, Bernstein, Erdem, M. Garvey, Morikawa, Twohy, L. Garvey, Premawardhana, Rhodes, Snellings<br />
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Concert Warm-Up, March 8, 2008<br />
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Szalba, Salvisberg, Freihofner, Condry<br />
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Ekholm, Sprung, Silver<br />
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L. Garvey, Stackpole<br />
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Harriet March Page, Burt, Alrich<br />
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Flaviani, Burt, Salvisberg, Szalba, Freihofner<br />
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Wold, Bailey<br />
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Alrich, Quan<br />
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Alrich, Gruber, Twohy, Szalba, Morikawa, Cooke, Sprung, Premawardhana<br />
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