SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRAand Old First Concerts Present:
"THE PLUTO MEMORIAL CONCERT"
$15 General, $12 Seniors (65 and older), $12 Full Time Students
Tickets are available through the Old First Concerts Box Office at (415) 474-1608, online at
http://oldfirstconcerts.org and at the door. For more information, please call Old First Concerts box office or visit SFCCO at
http://www.sfcco.org.
Program:
Mark Alburger................Pluto and Comets from Sol[ar] Suite
Allan Crossman..............Flyer featuring Nina Flyer, cello
Philip Freihofner.............In my craft or sullen art and The Thing Itself
David Graves.................Yearnings of a Middle Aged Composer About to Be Drowned
Beeri Moalem.................Avinu
Martha Stoddard............Parodies
In Mark Alburger’s Pluto and Comets from his Sol[ar] Suite, Pluto takes a lonely road in sinuous contrapuntal curves arching through the Kuiper Belt, perhaps mourning its demotion to “dwarf planet”.. Allan Crossman’s Flyer features acclaimed cellist Nina Flyer in a concerto that pulls loop-the-loops in commemoration of the Wright Brothers and the spirit of adventure. The oboe in Philip Freihofner‘s two pieces for Baritone, piano, oboe and electronics, In my craft or sullen art set to the poem by Dylan Thomas and The Thing Itself -- will guide us through the cosmos in search of answer to primal questions about fire and loss . David Graves ' Yearnings of a Middle Aged Composer About to Be Drowned features two real-time electro-acoustic sound sources to create a dizzying world. Violist-composer Beeri Moalem's Avinu will be presented with this composer's usual excellence and Martha Stoddard's Parodies is a light-hearted, flighty work, giving all members of the orchestra (woodwind quartet, brass trio, piano, percussion, and strings) a workout. In reverence and in honor of our most recent celestial loss, the “Pluto Memorial Concert” will be presented by America's only composer-run orchestra, The San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Music Director Mark Alburger, Associate Conductor John Kendall Bailey.
UPCOMING SFCCO CONCERTS: Saturday December 2, 2006 at Old First Church
Cost: $12-15
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Open Ended by Michael Cooke is a very versatile work that is composed live before your eyes and ears. 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. The ability to compose with what happens in the moment, in real time, is what is required to produce this piece. This similar to the “Soundpainting” language was created by Walter Thompson in Woodstock, New York in 1974. Open Ended 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.