sfSound performs György Ligeti's
stunning Chamber Concerto (1969-70) for 13 instruments alongside new short works written for sfSound by ten local composers. Coming from the many diverse bay area scenes, these musicians were commissioned to create new pieces for this concert inspired by and/or contrasting with Ligeti's monumental disquisition on sound and texture.
matthew sperry memorial festival 21grand416 25th oakland the eighth annual celebration of matthew sperry's life and music
with the bay area's creative music community
door donations go to the matthew sperry memorial fund
an evening of acousti-electric music :: FEATURING EKG!!! community music center : 544 capp st : san francisco :: 8p :: $15 [ $8 underemployed ]
PROGRAM Morton Feldman - Oboe and Orchestra (1976) :: EKG's realization of the orchestral score using analog electronics Luigi Nono - ...sofferte onde serene... (1976) piano and tape Mario Davidovsky - Synchronisms #3 (1965) cello and tape Denis Smalley - Clarinet Threads (1985) clarinet and tape Christopher Burns - The mutiny of rivers" (2010) for EKG : WORLD PREMIERE Per Bloland - Quintet (2005) sax and live electronics
PROGRAM Matthew Shlomowitz - Fast Medium Swing (2008) piano, 3 instruments, & auxiliary Beat Furrer - Aer (1991) clarinet, cello, and piano sfSoundGroup - Improvisation (2010)
6:00 p.m. Half-price admission to museum begins ($9 adults, $4.50 students/seniors)
7:00 p.m. Screening of Bussotti's Rara (film), with live piano accompaniment performed by Bussotti
8:45 p.m. Exhibits close
9:00 p.m. Performance of music by Bussotti, featuring Bussotti and sfSoundGroup, curated by Luciano Chessa
An evening with Italian composer and director Sylvano Bussotti, a key innovator in contemporary music since the early 1960s. We begin with the U.S. premiere of a restored print of silent Rara (film), which gathers "filmed portraits" of the Italian avant-garde, including the circle around Pier Paolo Pasolini, the expats of Julian Beck's Living Theater, and Bussotti's muse Cathy Berberian. Tonight we watch the director watch and respond to his film. Following the screening, sfSoundGroup joins the composer to move through Bussotti's music, from the sizzling two-pianos duo Tableaux vivants avant La Passion selon Sade (1964), to the recent Variazione Berio (2007) and Arlequin Poupi (2010). The program also includes Phrase a trois (1960), In Memoriam (Cathy Berberian) (1984), Geographie Francaise (1962), and Autotono (1977).
In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco Cinematheque, and the Progetto Sonora-CEMAT, and inspired by Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870.
