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ANGELS / $1,000 and more Henrietta and Cole Locklear Sarah Hesse ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Tim Allen Susan Shalit and Mary Logger Agatha Hoff Anna Presler 23 Jonathan Arons and Chris McCrum and Liz Velarde Richard Hutson and Claire Max Ned Moran Kathleen Moran ARTISTIC ADVISOR Carol Christ Robert Richter Barbara Imbrie Kurt Rohde Martin and Kathleen Cohn Bill and Carol Rohde Ben Janken and Paul Hein dare to 2015 Philanthropic Fund Michael Rowe Roy and Frances Johns PRESIDENT Thomas and Judith Dunworth Frances Singer Michael Kamrin and Katie See Martin Cohn listen 2016 Elizabeth Theil and Brian Kincaid Sally Landis Richard Fabian VICE PRESIDENT Denise Filakosky and Mark Theodoropoulos and Pamela Lee and Geoff Kaplan Lena Zentall Richard Bergmann Nancy Hall Richard and Marilyn Lonergan Judith Flynn Anonymous (4) Gerald Mendelsohn TREASURER John and Paula Gambs Harold and Hilary Meltzer Will Schieber Faye Hinze PARTNERS / $125–$249 Joan Murray Bliss Dan Joraanstad and Bob Chikara Abe Bruce C. Tarter and BOARD Hermann Horizons Nick and Maggie Benavides Gabriela Odell Jonathan Arons Foundation Ruth Berins Collier Janet Pelinka Carol Christ Elinor Armer Sacred Forest 6 min Kate Knickerbocker Margaret Dorfman Wayne Peterson Judith Flynn WORLD PREMIERE Thomas Laqueur and Kathleen Henschel Ann and Bill Putnam Kate Knickerbocker Tom Nugent Anna Presler • Ilana Thomas Carla Hesse Margot Golding Ryan Rey Parker Monroe oboe • violin violin David Low and Katherine Holland Carl Schimmel Andrea Plesnarski Phyllis Kamrin • Leighton Fong Dominique Lahaussois Kenneth Johnson Milton and Sondra Schlesinger Marilyn Zivian Therissa McKelvey and Audrey Kamrin Alicia Vaccaro Heli Roiha Robert and Ann Kamrin Mary Wildavsky MANAGING DIRECTOR Anthony Porter five, six, heaven... 4 min Parker Monroe and Victoria Kirby Martha Wise Nick Benavides Anna Presler violin • Phyllis Kamrin viola • Leighton Fong cello Tere Darragh Martin Krasney in memory of Nancy Wright Sam Nichols and Laurie Sarah Krasney Ron Wynn PUBLICITY Manuel De Falla from Siete canciones populares Españolas 10 min San Martin in memory of Katy Lonergan Anonymous Genevieve Antaky Marilyn San Martin Sean Meehan and arr. by Kurt Rohde El Paño Moruno Will and Linda Schieber Richard Freeman ORGANIZATIONS MARKETING, WEBSITE, Asturiana Sean Varah Susan Rosin and Brian Bock Fund for Music AND SOCIAL MEDIA Canción Lena Zentall Randolph and Frances Starn The Network Lena Zentall Nana Anonymous (3) Mark Winges Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Anonymous in honor of Mildred Distinguished Achievement PHOTOGRAPHY Polo Oliva and Marilyn Shaw FRIENDS / up to $124 Award granted to Thomas Jordan Murphy Stacey Pelinka flute • Tom Nugent oboe Jeanette Yu John Abelson and Christine Guthrie Laqueur Anna Presler violin • Leighton Fong cello BENEFACTORS / $500–$999 Tyler Arbour Ann & Gordon Getty Lena Zentall Ayako English Nancy Axelron Foundation Charlotte Gaylord and Cadence Banulis The Bernard Osher Foundation INTERMISSION Barrie Cowan Ross Bauer Fromm Music Foundation Ali Kerim Tore Norman Bookstein and Grants for the Arts; City Elinor Armer Taking the Waters on Oling Island 5 min Olivia Davis Neel and Gillian Kuehner and County of San Stephen Hartzog Charlie Bowen Francisco Phyllis Kamrin viola Louise Shalit John and Mary Caris San Francisco Arts Commission Millicent Tomkins Jamie and Alan Carlson Cultural Equity Quintet for Oboe and , Op.44, F.21 25 min Sean Varah Louise Clubb Grants Program Assai sostenuto - Moderato Anonymous Maggie and David Cooke University of , Davis Philip Crawford Chancellor’s Fellowship Andante con moto SUPPORTING PARTNERS / $250–$499 Beth and Norman Edelstein Zellerbach Family Foundation Vivace Mildred Allen Susanna Elm and Tom Nugent oboe • Anna Presler violin • Ilana Thomas violin Ross Armstrong Recent contributions Karl Nettesheim Phyllis Kamrin Leighton Fong Jeffrey and Katherine H. Barr Jonathan Favero may not yet be reflected. viola • cello Mary Berry Jo Floyd Patricia Brison Elizabeth Fracchia Left Coast gratefully acknowledges the support of San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund Grants for the Arts. Bliss and Gita Carnochan Robert Gayle Andrew Clason and Kay Sprinkel Grace CONTACT US Sherrod Blankner Chris and Patricia Gilbert 1 Topaz Way, San Francisco, CA 94131 Sunday, January 31, 7pm Chris and Diane Davies Paula and Eric Gillett 415.617.LCCE (415.617.5223) Janie Green in honor of Christina and John Gillis www.LeftCoastEnsemble.org 142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley Martin Cohn Krista Gullickson and [email protected] Judith Harding Abhay Ghiara Monday, February 1, 8pm Cindi King Kurt Hauch San Francisco Conservatory of Music GUEST ARTIST notes and biographies notes and biographies iolinist Ilana Thomas has performed throughout Vthe United States and Europe. Highlights include Elinor Armer Anthony Porter Elinor Armer solo appearances with the SF Symphony and the Sacred Forest (2015) five, six, heaven... (2015) Taking the Waters on Oling Island (2003) Albany (NY) Symphony, as well as appearances at the acred Forest opens with a lament from the English ive, six, heaven... was written as a quirky miniature ling Island is a mythical place where weather Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Marlboro Music Shorn. The strings join in, slowly urging forward. ffor the players of the 2015 LCCE Intersection Oand water takes the form of music. The Olo Festival in Vermont, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Together they find a place of peaceful meditation; Workshop. Follow the viola as the number of repeated River there has magical healing powers. In this piece Tanglewood Music Center. Thomas has appeared in here the music quotes the simple language of notes at the end of each hocketed accompaniment a dignified gentleman steps into the flowing music, Broadway productions in New York City and recorded plainchant—tonally neutral, monadic, and still. From figure count (and ultimately disregard counting) their is soothed, exhilarated, and ultimately intoxicated music for the Nickelodeon cartoon, The Backyardigans. this all emerge renewed, combining their earlier way up. -Anthony Porter before he steps out again, restored. material into an energized, polytonal denouement. The title is meant to suggest a mythical, mystical nthony (Tones) Porter is a pianist and composer Arthur Bliss upcoming events space, and should let listeners imagine their Abased in Berkeley. He received his BA in Music and Quintet for Oboe and String Quartet (1927) own ‘scenery’. Education from UC Berkeley, and his MM in Composition rthur Bliss wrote his in 1927, the MSRI HARMONIC SERIES I thank the Left Coast ensemble for the from the SF Conservatory of Music, studying with Dan Asame year Hoagy Carmichael’s Stardust and Music for Violin and Piano by Debussy, Zivian opportunity to write for this ensemble, particularly Becker. His music has been performed at the Kennedy Bartok’s third string quartet came out, and the year and Schumann. the English horn with its warm, poignant, sometimes Center, Outside Lands Music Festival, the Jewish ’s Lyric Suite premiered in Vienna. Bliss’ Berkeley • Simons Auditorium, The Mathematical feral tone. Special thanks also to Tom Nugent for his Community Center, ODC Dance, and The Freight & work sounds all his own, but also resonates with the Sciences Research Institute artful rendering as protagonist in this gentle drama. Salvage. In addition to concert music, he has written for sounds of his era; we hear sweet singing dissonances Thurs 2/18/16 5:15pm -Elinor Armer radio, film and dance. He is a long-time member of the that resolve unexpectedly and veer towards surprising piano ensemble New Keys (www.new-keys.org) and an chords, and a fascination with folk and popular SET 4 MENDELSSOHN & NEW VOICES omposer Elinor Armer comes from a family of amateur accordionist. www.tonesporter.com influences mixed with determined . A beloved masterpiece of chamber music literature, Cwriters, artists, and inventors. Born in Oakland, This piece for oboe is part of a cluster of works Mendelssohn’s D Minor Piano Trio has much in common California in 1939, raised in Davis, and educated Kurt Rohde for the instrument, all written with the same oboist with three trios by up and coming composers of our in the Bay Area, she has spent her life on the West Siete canciones populares Españolas (1926/arr. 2015) in mind: Léon Goosens’ remarkably beautiful sound time: Craig Walsh, Sean Varah and Jeremy Podgursky. Coast and closely identifies with Northern California. e Falla’s Siete canciones populares Españolas is one inspired not only Bliss, but also Elgar, Britten, Bax, Mill Valley • Throckmorton Theatre Sun 3/20/16 7pm Armer earned a BA at Mills College, studying Dof those pieces that can sort of survive anything. It Vaughan Williams, and Malcolm Arnold. composition with and piano with started out as his arrangement of popular traditional The first movement unfolds gently with a violin San Francisco • SF Conservatory *Tues 3/22/16 8pm Alexander Libermann, and an MA in composition from Spanish folksongs, and has been subsequently duet, adding instruments one by one until the oboe Berkeley • Simons Auditorium, The Mathematical SF State University, working with . transcribed for violin and piano, cello and piano, takes over and moves from the introduction into the Sciences Research Institute Armer’s music, widely performed throughout flute and piano, solo guitar, and an array of other main dance-like part of the music. In the second, Thurs 3/24/16 5:15pm the United States and abroad, includes solo, chamber, instruments, including a version for orchestra by Berio. we first hear a melody made to take advantage orchestral, vocal, and choral works, many devoted This quartet arrangement sets five of the original of the Goosens sound and then a quicker B section. to word-setting. Last season Armer mounted nine seven folksongs. - Kurt Rohde The third movement draws on Irish folk music, fierce Please note in your calendar: restropectives of her music, including four one-woman and unpredictable. The continually lengnthening our March performance in San Francisco will be on shows and four world premieres, celebrating her 75th iolist and composer Kurt Rohde is a recipient of phrases defy expectations and keep us off balance. Tuesday, March 22. birthday in a Diamond Jubilee series. Among her Vthe Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim Brightening gradually, the music carries to a direct best-known works for a variety of forces is ‘Uses of Fellowship, the Lydian String Quartet Commission Prize, quotation of Connelly’s Jig. Bliss brings the movement Music in Uttermost Parts’, an eight-part fantasy series and has received commission awards from the Barlow, to a rousing conclusion first with exciting rhythmic created over a ten-year period with writer Ursula K. Fromm, Hanson, and Koussevitzky Foundations. He overlays, then a raucous tutti section, and finally a SET 5 NIKKI EINFELD + LEFT COAST Le Guin. In addition, Armer is soon to begin work on received the 2015 Arts and Letters Award from the great oboe cadenza. Nikki Einfeld, the soprano who starred in our recent an opera based on Le Guin’s novel ‘Lavinia’. American Academy of Arts and Letters. A Professor at opera production, sings Schubert’s Shepherd on the For all of her adult life, Armer has taught UC Davis, Rohde was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute AFTER Share your thoughts on music and more Rock, music by , and other exquisite music; piano, theory, composition, and music history at for Advanced Studies in 2012–13. He plays viola with THE with the Left Coast musicians at our she is joined by Jerome Simas and Eric Zivian. every level, in schools and at her home in Berkeley. the Left Coast and serves as their Artistic Advisor. A CONCERT after-concert gathering! Berkeley • The Hillside Club Tues 5/31/16 7:30pm For the last 46 years she has been affiliated with graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, the Peabody the SF Conservatory of Music, where in 1985 she Institute of Music and SUNY Stony Brook, he enjoys Following the San Francisco concert meet us for food Mill Valley • Millicent Tomkins Art Studio established the composition department, and where triple IPAs, long distance running, Philip K. Dick, and and drinks at SAUCE, located just down the street at 31 Shell Road Sun 6/5/16 7pm she continues to teach composition. pretty much any new movie that has just been released. 131 Gough, between Oak and Page. See you there! San Francisco • SF Conservatory Mon 6/6/16 8pm 20152016 season 23, program 3 - january/february 2016 20152016 season 23, program 3 - january/february 2016