Guitarist
GIACOMO FIORE presents a pair of just intonation works: CATHERINE LAMB'S "point/wave" (2015) and LARRY POLANSKY'S "freeHorn" (2004). Both pieces harness electronics to generate novel harmonic spaces for the guitar to inhabit and ornament, weaving cyclical arc-like patterns in Lamb, and freely following a progression between related harmonic series in Polansky.
sfSoundGroup performs two iconic 20th century works of chamber music: GÉRARD GRISEY'S bracing "Talea" (1986) and the premiere of a transcription of BRUNO MADERNA'S rarely performed, beguiling "Serenata N.2" (1956).
P R O G R A M
LARRY POLANSKY (b. 1954) "freeHorn" (2004)
--- for electric guitar and electronics
BRUNO MADERNA (b. 1920) "Serenata N.2" (1956)
--- arranged for quintet
GÉRARD GRISEY (b. 1946) "Talea" (1986)
--- for quintet
CATHERINE LAMB (b. 1982) "point/wave" (2015)
--- for steel string guitar and electronics
Italian-born guitarist and musicologist
GIACOMO FIORE has premiered more than two dozen new works for justly-tuned, electric, and classical guitars, and released several recordings for Populist, Cold Blue, Pinna, Spectropol, Paper Garden Records, and his own impressum. As a scholar his research focuses on U.S. experimental music, intonation, and performance; he has published articles in Music Theory Spectrum, the Journal of the Society for the American Music, and TEMPO, and writes occasionally for Classical Guitar and SFCV. He teaches a wide range of historical and practical music courses at the University of San Francisco and UC Santa Cruz.
The "house band" for the Mosswood Sound Series,
sfSoundGroupMusicians performing on this program:
Sam Weiser, violin
Monica Scott, cello
Hadley McCarroll, piano
Matt Ingalls, clarinet
Diane Grubbe, flute
Cost: $10-$25 sliding scale