Home for a change -- the farthest afield was acquiring The New York Times -- almost went much further in a near accident while running some errands...
Preparing Mice and Men Act III B for publication -- a long passage, may take a while....
May 12 - Nearer My God to The Times
Home for a change -- the farthest afield was acquiring The New York Times -- almost went much further in a near accident while running some errands...
Preparing Mice and Men Act III B for publication -- a long passage, may take a while....
May 11 - The Playboy of the West Bay
Produced two more album covers on the laptop -- One-Hour Color Processing and
Lost in Place....
Picked up June 2007 issue of 21st-Century Music from the printer and dropped off the piano-vocal score of The Playboy of the Western World.
Dinner with Harriet at Celia's San Rafael, then Golden Gate Opera at Marin Center, which may prove to be a difficult review....
May 10 - A Rainbow in Curved Space
Produced my first color hard-copy album cover -- for Mice and Men -- then recorded Act III A of same.
Thanks to Tim White, was able to transfer video made of the Duck Pond concert two Thursdays ago to the laptop -- wireless conveniently was down, so we went in via the Emergency Airlock, Hal, via ethernet direct wire.
Look over the film clip during outdoor dinner at Connecticut Yankee with Harriet (SF warm spell definitely over), then off together for SF Symphony of Copland, Mahler, R. Strauss -- report next week....
May 9 - Offering
SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:
May 1, 2007 SFCCO (707) 451-0714 mus21stc@aol.com
SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
"HI, I'LL BE YOUR COMPOSER THIS EVENING"
8:00PM, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, OLD FIRST CHURCH, 1725 SACRAMENTO STREET
(AT VAN NESS), SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO AND WORLD PREMIERES OF WORKS BY
JOHN BEEMAN, HARRY BERNSTEIN, MICHAEL COOKE, ALAN CROSSMAN,
GARY FRIEDMAN, BRIAN HOLMES, LOREN JONES, AND JOHN RUSSELL
SAN FRANCISCO, May 1, 2007 -- Hi, I'll be your composer this evening, with the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, 8pm, Saturday, June 9, at Old First Church (1725 Sacramento Street) in San Francisco.
Would you like to hear our specials? We have a lovely braised fowl, Phoenix Rising, the final section of John Beeman's Fire Suite, which will be brought to the ear crackling and sizzling in a multi-layered crescendo.
Can't make up your mind? You might want to try the delicious One Who Draws Circles (Ha-Me'aggel) by Michael Cooke. This will be sure to wet the appetite in a music that calls forth the story of Onias (Honi) Ha-Me'aggel, a first century Jewish scholar who drew a circle and placed himself in the center of it, praying for rain, and whose prayers were mysteriously and immediately answered.
For our main Concertos we have two offerings -- Gary Friedman's for Trumpet and Jonathan Russell's for Two Bass Clarinets. For comfort food, may I recommend the former, a high adventure for trumpeter Brian Hertz inspired by the music of Joseph Haydn. But, for the more adventurous palette, may I direct your attention to the latter, which is a spicy confection combining seasonings of heavy metal rock with the classical conventions of Carl Maria von Weber, all cooked up by duo basso chefs Russell and Jeff Anderle.
For refreshment, we offer surprising new chamber music by Harry Bernstein, and also Alan Crossman's consciousness-raising Earth March, which is both an energy drink and soothing opportunity for reflection. After a few sonic quaffs, you'll feel ready to take on the world, or at least visit Google Earth.
A meal is also atmosphere, of course, so we're happy to provide you with an aural view of Golden Gate Bridge, the tenth movement of Loren Jones's Dancing on the Brink of the World. This is a tried-and-true 14-part recipe on the history of San Francisco, 1600 to the Present, seven of whose scrumptious bon-bons have been previously performed in SFCCO concerts.
Hopefully, you've saved room for dessert. Here we have a most unusual offering in songs by Brian Holmes. New Cecilia and New Dodo will delight in sweet melody and good humor, but beware of overindulgence. Is that a bit of tonal tummy-rumbling? Could be.
TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's "Hi, I'll Be Your Composer Tonight" on Saturday, March 10, 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/erlingwold, and myspace.com/markalburger.
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CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE:
OLD FIRST CONCERTS PRESENTS
Saturday, June 9, at 8:00 p.m. Old First Presbyterian Church
1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness
San Francisco, CA
(415) 474-1608
HI, I'LL BE YOUR COMPOSER THIS EVENING
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Program:
John Beeman - Phoenix Rising
Harry Bernstein - Chamber Music
Michael Cooke - Ha-Me'aggel (One Who Draws Circles)
Alan Crossman - Earth March
Gary Friedman - Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra
Brian Holmes - Two Grotesque Songs from Death's Jest-Book
Loren Jones - Golden Gate Bridge
John Russell - Concerto for Two Bass Clarinets and Orchestra
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.
May 7 - Thrown for a Curve
Prepared Act III C and D of The Playboy of the Western World for publication, with particular emphasis on text underlay and staging -- essentially finishing the tome for the singer-actors, at least for now...
May 6 - What a Day!
Second staging rehearsal of Act I Waiting for Godot, playing Estragon, as Meghan was unable to attend (we'll catch up Wednesday). Poor Kat as Lucky had to spend a lot of time with a large orange extension chord around her neck, practicing comically/gracefully falling while holding a computer bag and a stool -- what we do for art.... Turns out Lucky's song can pretty much be done at the manic tempo, assuming we're not too fussy about diction (actually, more like downright cavalier)...
Lunch with Harriet at Connecticut Yankee, a cataloguing of music for the next SFCCO concert, then a GH board meeting casual enough that I could follow some of it lying down.
A walk-on-the-beach, just south of San Pedro Mountain, just like in the singles ads, then H and I had to pass up two restaurants before settling on a third
(Aperto, on this the anniversary of our first time out).
Finally, David Conte's America Tropical, with fine conducting from John Kendall Bailey and similar expertise from Keisuke Nakagoshi, who has been our Goat Hall pianist over seven years (including premieres of Henry Miller in Brooklyn, Animal Opera, Camino Real, Pied Piper, plus performances of Little Prince), and Jon, who we hope will have a piece ready for Composers Chamber Orchestra. Report will appear eventually here and in 21st-Century Music....
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