Earplay Season 27 Concerts 2012 Season Herbst Theatre, 7:30 PM Pre-Concert Talk 6:45 pm

Earplay 27/1: a feeling for sound Monday, February 6, 2012 Morton Feldman  Alex Hills  Mauricio Rodriguez Wayne Peterson 

Earplay 27/2: everything is open to interpretation Monday, March 19, 2012 Earplay 27/2 Morton Feldman  Ellen Harrison   Erik Ulman everything is open to interpretation Earplay 27/3: music could be an art form Thursday, May 10, 2012 March 19, 2012 as part of the San Francisco International Arts Festival Morton Feldman  Richard Felciano  Joan Huang  Sven Daigger

world premiere Earplay commission U.S. Premiere West-Coast Premiere 2011 Winner, Earplay Donald Aird Memorial Composition Competition

Connect with Earplay on social media: facebook earplay new chamber music twitter earplayinsf - and on our website at earplay.org elcome to the second concert of Earplay’s 27th season! This year, each concert features a work by W American innovator Morton Feldman. Each concert also presents other provocative cutting-edge contemporary music, performed by our spectacular Earplayers. In November and December, Earplay collaborated with Berkeley’s Aurora Theater on a stunning production of The Soldier’s Tale. This extraordinary production used puppetry and dance to bring Stravinsky’s magical score to life. Earplay looks forward to more collaborative projects in the future, so stay tuned! ndes what? The “Notes on the Program” section has a special informative section on the ondes martenot, the Earplay 2012 Omagical and rarely-heard French electronic instrument Donald Aird that graces our stage this evening in the capable hands of Earplayer Mary Chun. Memorial ark your calendar now to be here May 10th for Composers Competition Earplay’s season finale, which will feature the Mwinning entry from the 2011 Donald Aird Composers Downloadable application at: Competition: “Strom,” by 26-year-old German composer Sven www.earplay.org/competitions Daigger. Also showcased will be the world premiere of a work for mixed ensemble of Chinese and Western instruments: Joan Deadline: Huang’s “Along the River During the Qingming Festival.” March 31, 2012 hank you for joining us! Stephen Ness T President, Board of Directors Special Thanks To:

Earplay Earplay Advisory Board Board of Directors Staff Bruce Christian Bennett Tod Brody Richard Felciano Mary Chun Stephen Ness, president Laura Rosenberg executive director Stephen Ness William Kraft May Luke, secretary Terrie Baune Ellen Ruth Rose Kent Nagano Bruce Bennett, treasurer scheduling coordinator Karen Rosenak Wayne Peterson Junzo Yano Renona Brown Chen Yi Terrie Baune, musician representative accountant Mary Chun Ian Thomas sound recordist

Earplay, 560 29th Street, San Francisco, CA 94131 SAN FRANCISCO WAR MEMORIAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER HERBST THEATRE Monday Evening, March 19, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. The Herbst Theatre Owned and operated by the City and County of San Francisco through the Board of Trustees of the War Memorial of San Francisco The Honorable Edwin M. Lee, Mayor EARPLAY 27/2 TRUSTEES Charlotte Mailliard Shultz, President everything is open MajGen J. Michael Myatt, USMC (Ret.), Vice President Wilkes Bashford to interpretation Nancy H. Bechtle Belva Davis Thomas E. Horn Mary Chun, conductor & ondes martenot Claude M. Jarman, Jr. Mrs. George R. Moscone Tod Brody, flute Terrie Baune, violin Paul F. Pelosi Peter Josheff, clarinet Ellen Ruth Rose, viola James W. Stafford Thalia Moore, cello Diane B. Wilsey

Elizabeth Murray, Managing Director Guest Artists Jennifer E. Norris, Assistant Managing Director Dan Reiter, cello Michel Taddei, double bass Karen Rosenak, piano

Pre-Concert Talk at 6:45 pm Bruce Christian Bennett moderator with Ellen Harrison and Erik Ulman

Earplay’s season is made possible with funding from the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, the Bernard Osher Foundation, the Thomas J. White and Leslie Scalapino Fund of the Ayco Foundation, the Alice M. Ditson Fund, the Ross McKee Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the San Francisco Foundation Fund for Artists, the San Francisco Grants for the Arts, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and many generous donors.

Program Donors (since February 2010) We thank our donors for their generosity and continued belief in the importance of the creation and performance of new and intriguing music. Morton Feldman Voice and Instruments II (1972)

Mary Chun, Peter Josheff Ellinor Hagedorn James & April Carlson $10,000 + Christopher Wendell Jones Jim Carr The National Endowment for the Ruth Knier John Chowning Dan Reiter, Michel Taddei Arts Melanie Kwock Gong Lori Dobbins San Francisco Grants For the Arts Peter Moore Janet Elliott The William and Flora Hewlett Nora Norden Michele Fromson & Cordell Ho Foundation Arthur Rose Paolo Geminiani Erik Ulman Eclogue (2011) Chen Yi and Zhou Long Arnold Go $5,000 + world premiere Margo Golding Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Daniel Gong Earplay commission French American Cultural Exchange $100 + Karen Gottlieb One anonymous donor Yen Bachmeier John and Lee Hause Mary Chun, Peter Josheff Jonathan Berger Richard Mellott $3,000 + Katherine Blume Patricia Moy Tod Brody Dan Reiter, Michel Taddei The Bernard Osher Foundation Wendy Niles William Beck & Yu-Hui Chang The San Francisco Foundation Fund Pablo Ortiz for Artists James & April Carlson Leonard and Sandra Rosenberg John & Mary Caris Regina Sneed Chris Concolino Bill Specht intermission $1,000 + Alena Cowan Donald and Phyllis Sutherland Ross McKee Foundation Adam Frey Ava Victoria Terrie Baune Pablo Furman Mark Winges Patti Glasow Ellen Ruth Harrison Salad Bar (2010) Mary Chun Alice M. Ditson Fund Margot Golding Christine Gong May Luke Farbtupfer der Jahreszeiten, ein Genuss der Sinne Douglas Gong and more friends Bari & Stephen Ness Frances L. Bennion Melanie Kwock Gong Laura Rosenberg Kenneth Bruchmeier world premiere Violet Gong The Thomas J. White and Leslie Anne Callaway Scalapino Fund of the Ayco Elinor Hagedorn Ellen Ruth Rose, Tod Brody Eleanor Cohen Charitable Foundation Martha Callison Horst Ernestine S. Cohn One anonymous donor Leo Kadehjian Alice Berg Cronin I. Pommerngarten Joy Kent Lori Dobbins II. Gurkensalat nach “Hausfrauen Art” William Kraft $300 + Barbara and Sanford Dornbusch III. Sechs-Kräutersalat Ann Kroeber Raymond and Mary Chun Robert Fisher Antoinette Kuhry & IV. Tomatensalat nach “Stettiner Art” Margaret Dorfman Donald & Stephanie Friedman Thomas A. Haeuser V. Löwenzahnsalat Robert Ellis & Jane Bernstein Gary Friedman Susan Kwock VI. Küstenimpressionen Yoshiko Kakudo Guillermo Galindo Richard & Patricia Taylor Lee Rosalie Lowe Rob Gong Amy Miller Levine Wayne Peterson Louise Haiman Alfred Lerdahl Sam Nichols & Laurie San Martin Rollin and Phyliss Harding Elizabeth O’Malley Karen Rosenak Stephen Harrison (1911) Ellen Ruth Rose Charles Ives Piano Trio Larry Russo Valerie Herr Dan Scharlin William Schottstaedt Leslie Ann Jones I. Moderato Mike Sharp Thomas White Louis Karchin II. TSIAJ (This Scherzo is a Joke) Donald & Jill Spuehler Mazdak Khamda III. Moderato con moto Olly & Louise Wilson $200 + Teija Kuosku Nana Kurosawa Terrie Baune, Thalia Moore, Mark Applebaum $50 + Eva Langfedit Jonathan Berger William Beckerman Jan Lustig Karen Rosenak Jane Bernstein and Robert Ellis Emma Bethencourt Marilyn Mercur Wayne & Winnie Chun Herbert W. Bielawa Ralph & Elizabeth Morrison Margaret Dorfman Patricia Bourne Norman Reid Patti Noel Deuter Seth Brenzel Allen Shearer & Claudia Stevens Gary Eskelson Katherine Brody Richard Felciano Kristin Zoernig William Carlin Earplay Composers: Twenty-Seven Years Notes on the Program

Eliane Aberdam Richard Felciano Mario Lavista Marc Satterwhite Sarah Aderholdt John Felder Anne LeBaron Eric Sawyer business for a faculty position at Thomas Adès Morton Feldman Yinam Leef Arnold Schoenberg about the ondes martenot Donald Aird Richard Festinger the University of Buffalo, where Eleanor Alberga Irving Fine Peter Scott Lewis Salvatore Sciarrino The ondes martenot is one of Richard Aldag Michael Finnissy Jorge Liderman David Schiff he taught for the remainder of Alexis Alrich Tom Flaherty Peter Lieberson the earliest electric/electronic David Schober his life. It is representative of Allen Anderson Andrew Frank György Ligeti Philippe Schoeller David Froom Liza Lim instruments, invented in France Mark Applebaum Arnold Schoenberg Robert Basart Pablo Furman Mei-Fang Lin what might be termed his Middle Roger Sessions in the early 20th century, Ross Bauer Beat Fürrer Scott Lindroth Allen Shearer Period, which was characterized Bruce Christian Bennett Guillermo Galindo David Liptak Seymour Shifrin around the same time its more Arthur Berger Michael Gandolfi Zhou Long by works of about twenty Sheila Silver Jonathan Berger Guy Garnett Michelle Lou famous cousin the theremin was Reynold Simpson Luciano Berio Stacy Garrop Jing Jing Luo minutes in length (including the Paul Siskind invented in Russia. Best known Christophe Bertrand John Gibson Witold Lutoslawski better-known examples Rothko Jan Bilk James Giroudonv Drake Mabry Ronald Bruce Smith for its key role in the works Herb Bielawa Glenn Glasow John MacDonald David Soley Chapel and For Frank O’Hara) and Susan Blaustein Daniel Godfrey Steven Mackey of French composer Olivier Stephen Blumberg Alexander Goehr Katherine Malyi Claudio Spies by the fruit of his exploration Linda Bouchard Perry Goldstein Ursula Mamlock Jeff Stadelman Messaien, the ondes combines into experimental techniques and Michelle Green Kurt Stallman a fully integrated keyboard with Mark Grey David Meckstroth Dorrance Stalvey instruments such as the ondes Carolyn Bremer Stephen Michael Gryc Marjorie Merryman Eitan Steinberg associated control surfaces that Benjamin Britten Susan Harding Olivier Messiaen Frank Stemper martenot, which is employed to Christopher Burns Lou Harrison Donal Michalsky Mark Stickman further regulate pitch and timbre, Ann Callaway Ellen Ruth Harrison Darius Milhaud such excellent effect in this work. Ronald Caltabiano Eric Moe Kotoka Suzuki making possible a broad range of Edmund Campion Hugh Hartwell Chris Treubue Moore Toru Takemitsu Paul Moravec effects. Mary Chun, one of only James Carr Jonathan Harvey Bruce Taub Hans Werner Henze Gustavo Moretto John Thow two professional ondistes in the Chris Chafe Martin Herman Tristan Murail M o r t o n F e l d m a n Leilei Tian Yu-Hui Chang Jennifer Higdon Thea Musgrave Ushio Torikai and the leader of (1926-1987, United States) was Eric Chasalow Alexander Hills Hyo-Shin Na Yi Chen Vincent Chee-yung Ho William Neil Earplay’s core ensemble, notes, an American composer – an Christopher Trapani Miguel Chuagui Sunji Hong Olga Neuwirth Bertram Turetzky Timothy Vincent Clark Martha Callison Horst Sam Nichols “The ondes is a great example American artist – an American Nicolas Tzortzis Steven Clark Toshio Hosokawa Roger Nixon of the collision of art and in the true sense of the Aaron Copland Joan Huang Joao Pedro Oliveira Jason Uech Eleanor Cory Lee Hyla Henry Onderdonk Erik Ulman technology in symbiosis to create word. He identified himself Cindy Cox Igor Iachimciuc Pablo Ortiz Galina Ustvol’skaya i Ruth Crawford Seeger Victor Ialeggio Gabriela Ortiz David Vayo something unimaginable in their by differentiating his views on George Crumb Shintaro Imai Jose Antonio Orts Curt Veeneman Beth Custer Hèctor Para Claude Vivier separate worlds.” composition from those of his Marc-Andre Dalbavie Charles Ives Caspar Johannes Walter colleagues in Europe. He was Greg D’Alessio Edward Jacobs Jeffrey Perry Xi-Lin Wang Luigi Dallapiccola Stephen Jaffe Wayne Peterson Anton von Webern proud to be an American because James Dashow David Jaffe Alexander Post Judith Weir Mario Davidovsky Ping Jin Laurie Radford Daniel Weymouth he was convinced that it enabled Betsy Jolas Peter Maxwell Davies Scott Wheeler Voice and Instruments II him the freedom, unparalleled Adriana Verdié de Vas Christopher Wendell Jones Shulamit Ran Barbara White Romero Peter Josheff Bernard Rands Frances White (1972) Tamar Diesendruck Louis Karchin in Europe, to work unfettered Maurice Ravel Beth Wiemann Lori Dobbins Arthur Keiger Belinda Reynolds Olly Wilson by orton eldman by tradition. And, he was an Franco Donatoni Hi-Kyung Kim Steve Ricks M F Mark Winges Kui Dong Earl Kim Andrew Rindfleisch American also in what may have Walter Winslow ondes martenot, clarinet, cello, Jérome Dorival Jerome Kitzke Adam Roberts Stefan Wolpe Jacob Druckman Barbara Kolb Jody Rockmaker double bass been a slight inferiority complex Edwin Dugger Anthony Korf Mauricio Rodriguez in the face of cultural traditions Joel Durand Paul Kozel Kurt Rohde Iannis Xenakis Morton Feldman wrote Voice and David Dzubay William Kraft Mathew Rosenblum Tolga Yayala in Europe, something he proudly Jason Eckardt Meyer Kupferman Morris Rosenzweig Chen Yir Instruments II the year before he George Edwards Gyorgy Kurtag Chris Roze Pagh-Paan Younghi rejected and secretly admired. Aaron Einbond Bun-ching Lam Isang Yun left his family’s garment-trade Mirtru Escalona-Mijares David Lang Virginia Samuel Eric Zivian Leo Eylar Massimo Lauricella Laurie San Martin Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon Fredrik Fahlman Richard Lavenda Carlos Sanchez-Gutiérrez Ellen Taafe Zwilich Like any true artist, Feldman was Eclogue (2011) endowed with a sensitivity for by r i k l m a n impressions of a wide variety of E U ondes martenot, clarinet, cello, sources, literature and painting in double bass particular. His affinity to Samuel Beckett has enriched music An eclogue is “a pastoral poem in literature by a unique music which shepherds are the speakers. theatre piece, Neither, and two [It] may be a song of courtship, ensemble works. His friendship a lament about disappointment with abstract impressionist in love, a dirge for the death of painters gave birth to a range of a fellow shepherd. It may be a masterpieces, Rothko Chapel in monologue in the first person, a play nurtures new chamber music linking audiences, particular. But even the knotting poetic dialogue, or a singing contest; performers, and composers through concerts, commissions, of oriental rugs gave Feldman and it may conceal an allegory of and recordings of the finest music of our time. musical ideas. political, artistic, or religious ideas or developments” (The Reader’s Feldman had an intriguing reply Companion to World Literature). I up his sleeve when it came to Founded in 1985 by a consortium of composers and musicians, was attracted to the genre’s rich answering the question of why he Earplay is dedicated to the performance of new chamber music ambiguities (poised between nature composed in the first place: “You offering audiences a unique opportunity to hear eloquent, and artifice, between directness know that marvelous remark of vivid performances of some of today’s finest chamber music. and obliquity, eventually between Disraeli’s? Unfortunately, he was Earplay concerts feature the Earplayers, seven artists who, as a pagan and Christian implications), not a good writer, but if he was a group, have developed a lyrical and ferocious style. Earplay has as it developed from Virgil through great writer, it would have been performed over 425 works in its 26-year history including 110 the likes of Spenser into modern a wonderful remark. They asked world premieres and over 50 new works commissioned by the literature (Auden’s The Age of him why did he begin to write ensemble. The 2012 season reinforces Earplay’s unwavering track Anxiety and Mallarmé’s L’apres-midi novels. He said because there record of presenting exceptional music in the 21st century. d’un faune, for example, are both was nothing to read (laughs). I felt subtitled as eclogues, and the genre very much like that in terms of is absorbed into Robert Pinget’s contemporary music. I was not Individual donations are vital to Earplay’s success and we novel The Apocrypha); and, also, to appreciate your generosity. If your company has a matching policy, really happy with it. It became its echoes in painting, especially in we would be most grateful. like a Rohrschach test”. Poussin and Twombly. Eclogue was More than twenty years since his written in 2011 for Earplay; thanks Call us or see our website (www.earplay.org) to make an electronic donation: or take a pre-addressed envelope tonight. death, Morton Feldman’s music is are due to them, especially their as alive as ever. intrepid director and ondiste Mary Thank you! Together we can keep the music coming! Chun, for requesting the work. Earplay, 560 29th Street, San Francisco, CA 94131-2239 - Erik Ulman Nieuw Ensemble, NOISE, Ian Pace, has also done film score recordings Erik Ulman teaches Plus-Minus, the sfSoundGroup, at Skywalker Ranch and is principal composition and theory at Stanford and SONOR. His Third String bass of the Berkeley Symphony, University. He studied violin with Quartet, for which he received San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Michael Tseitlin and János Négyesy, a Composer’s Assistance Award and Mendocino Music Festival. Mr. and composition at the University from the American Music Center, Taddei is Administrative Director of of , San Diego, working was premiered at the Künstlerhaus Music at the Crowden School, and principally with Brian Ferneyhough. Boswil in October 2005 by the he is on the faculty of the Golden After receiving his doctorate from Arditti Quartet, and subsequently Gate Philharmonic and the Palo Alto UCSD in 2000, he taught there performed at the Bern Biennale. In Chamber Orchestra’s chamber music as a Faculty Fellow from Winter December 2006 he was awarded workshop. He has toured with Yo Yo 2001 through Spring 2002; for a commission from the Fromm Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble in the both Spring and Fall 2003 he was Foundation. Ulman is co-director of U.S. and Central Asia, and will rejoin a Visiting Assistant Professor of the artists’ philosophical collective them at a concert this season at the Composition at the University of Poto and has organized seven Hollywood Bowl. An accomplished Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ulman Poto Festivals, gathering artists in singer, he has performed the roles of has lectured at the Darmstadt various media for collaboration and Bénédict, Candide and Pedrillo, among Ferienkurse, as well as at the exchange in Grass Valley, California. others. Mr. Taddei has played on over Stuttgart Musikhochschule, the forty recordings on labels including Jornadas de Creación Musical and Decca, EMI, and Erato. the Escuela Superior de Música in Mexico City, UC Berkeley, New S a l a d B a r (2010) York University, the University by I a n T h o m a s (sound recordist)is a Ellen Ruth Harrison of Minnesota, Bard College, native of San Francisco, who currently � flute, viola Macalester College, the University works in film as a sound designer and of , San Francisco State Several years ago I was at the composer. University, and Georgia College Baltic Sea on a family vacation. We and State University. Ulman’s went out to eat one evening at an incredibly snooty restaurant. Snooty L a u r a R o s e n b e r g music has been performed across (executive director) recently returned the U.S., Europe, and Australia for no reason, however, because to her native Bay Area after a 25- by such notable interpreters as I’ve never had a worse meal. The year absence, during which she Magnus Andersson, the Arditti menu, on the other hand, was pure served as director of production Quartet, Séverine Ballon, Anthony poetry. Farbtupfer der Jahreszeiten, for the Chamber Music Society of Burr of Elision, the Cygnus ein Genuss der Sinne describes the Lincoln Center, concert director of Ensemble, John Mark Harris, Mark seasonal splashes of color that dot Northwestern University and co- Knoop, Colin McAllister, Andrew the countryside near the coast of the founder and general director of the McIntosh, Modelo 62, the New Baltic Sea. (While we were laughing Hot Springs Music Festival. York New Music Ensemble, the about the circumstances of our meal, my husband suggested that I take a order. Of course, like in any salad, it’s menu and use it for a piece. I looked all in the mix. Meditations (OEBS, 2000) and Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto around furtively, completely cowed by - Ellen Ruth Harrison the arrogant staff, and slipped the best (Fremont Symphony, 2002). Dan is also a former Earplay member page from its heavy leather folder.) Ellen Ruth Harrison The items on this page served as a (1989-90). As a composer, Dan has Born and raised in Illinois, Ellen written varied chamber works. In source of inspiration for Salad Bar. Guest Artists Harrison received her doctorate 1999 he won an Izzy Award for is The coast at the Baltic Sea in in composition from the University composition Raga Bach B Minor Mecklenbery-Western Pomerania has of California, Berkeley, where her K a r e n R o s e n a k (piano) is featuring dancer Robert Moses. He a rather harsh climate. Waves batter teachers included Edwin Dugger, an “almost native” of the Bay Area. has had the privilege of working the embankment mercilessly, and a raw Richard Felciano, Andrew Imbrie She was a founding member/pianist with India’s master musician Ali wind blows at all times. It also blows and Olly Wilson. Supported by U.C. of Bay Area new-music groups Akbar Khan and has recorded briskly through several movements of Berkeley’s Prix de Paris, she spent Earplay and the Empyrean Ensemble, two CDs (Garden of Dreams and Salad Bar: Pommerngarten (Pomeranian two years studying in Paris, also with which she currently performs. Legacy) with Khansahib. In addition, Garden), Sechs-Kräutersalat (Six- attending composer workshops in She studied modern piano with Dan produced Cello and Harp, a herb Salad), and Küstenimpressionen electronic music at the prestigious Carlo Bussotti and Nathan CD of his compositions for cello (Coastal Impressions). The other Institut de Recherche et de Schwartz, and credits Margaret and harp with his wife, Natalie Cox. movements are less weather-related. Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Fabrizio with introducing her to Tomatensalat nach “Stettiner Art” better known as IRCAM. In addition the fortepiano during her graduate (Tomato Salad, Szczecin Style) is a she has studied with Milko Kelemen M i c h e l T a d d e i (double work in early music at Stanford lament for the Jews deported from at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart, bass) received his AB in History University. She has found the Szczecin, the first German Jews to and with Thomas Frederickson and at , where he balance between old and new music, be taken to concentration camps in Paul Zonn at the University of Illinois, was a John Jay National Scholar. Mr. and between old and new pianos, Poland. Gurkensalat nach “Hausfrauen producing a corpus of works for all Taddei has done graduate work in to be and ongoing, most satisfying Art” (Cucumber Salad, Home Style) manner of instrumental and vocal history at UC Berkeley and has a pursuit. Since 1990, she has been and Löwenzahnsalat (Dandelion Salad) ensembles. Harrison teaches theory diploma from the Juilliard School’s on the faculty at U.C. Berkeley, take their cues from their ingredients. and composition at the University of Pre-College division. While at where she teaches musicianship and The first is crisp and pale, like a good Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Berkeley, Mr. Taddei was invited contemporary chamber music. cucumber should be. The second Music Preparatory Department.. to become solo bass of the Lyon reels from one texture to another, Opera (France). Since his return a reflection of the jagged edges and D a n R e i t e r (cello) is to the U.S., his career has included bitter taste of dandelion leaves, and principal cellist with the Oakland tours as principal bass with the then lands in the wind on which the P i a n o T r i o (1911) East Bay Symphony (OEBS), Opera Company, seeds float out to sea. by Charles Ives Festival Opera Orchestra, Diablo chamber performances with the Like at a salad bar, performers are free violin, cello, piano Ballet Orchestra and Fremont San Francisco Contemporary Music to pick and choose any number of Symphony. His solo work has Players, Earplay, the New Century Ample evidence, including a statement movements and can play them in any included Leonard Bernstein’s Three Chamber Orchestra, and the Left by the composer’s wife, indicates that Coast Chamber Ensemble. He written by composer Libby Larsen of Lynn Harrell, and received her Charles Ives’ Piano Trio is a musical youth with European art music, and and librettist Philip Littell, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees reflection, ten years post-graduation, was among the first composers to commissioned by the Sonoma City in 1979 and 1980. Since 1982, Ms. of his student life at Yale University. engage in a systematic program of Opera. Moore has been Associate Principal The first movement consists of three experimental music, with musical Cellist of the San Francisco Opera repetitions of the same 27-measure techniques including polytonality, Orchestra, and in 1989 joined the block of thematic material: first with polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric P e t e r J o s h e ff cello section of the San Francisco (clarinet) and cello and piano, then with violin elements, and quarter tones, Ballet Orchestra. composer, is a and piano, and finally with all three foreshadowing many musical founding member instruments combined. The second innovations of the 20th century. of Sonic Harvest Ellen Ruth Rose movement, which in a play on the word Sources of Ives’ tonal imagery are and Earplay. He is a (viola) relocated scherzo (joke) is subtitled TSIAJ (“This hymn tunes and traditional songs, member of the Empyrean Ensemble, to the Bay Area in scherzo is a joke”), derives its humor the town band at holiday parade, the Eco Ensemble, and the Paul 1998 after having from a broad display of the distorted fiddlers at Saturday night dances, Dresher Ensemble, and performs spent several years folk melody quotations which were patriotic songs, sentimental parlor frequently with the San Francisco in Cologne, Germany, a hallmark of Ives’ music throughout ballads and the melodies of Stephen Contemporary Music Players. He where she first became immersed in his career; here, the selections include Foster. He was heavily influenced has appeared on many recordings, contemporary music. As a member fraternity and campus songs from his by his bandmaster father, George concert series and festivals, both of the experimental ensembles university days. The final movement Ives, and in particular by his nationally and internationally. Musik Fabrik and Thürmchen continues the parade of developed childhood experiences of hearing His recent compositions include Ensemble, and as a frequent guest quotations in repeated alternation his father’s band and several others Nautical Man Nautical Man (2011), with Frankfurt’s Ensemble Modern, of lyrical and syncopated episodes, simultaneously playing different Sutro Tower in the Fog (2011), Sextet she toured throughout Europe, concluding with a quote from Thomas music from various positions (2010), Caught Between Two Worlds premiering and recording countless Hastings’ Rock of Ages. around the town square in Danbury, (2009), Inferno (2008), and Viola and works. She has performed as soloist Connecticut. Mallets (2007). His music has been with the West German Radio While Ives defined himself primarily performed by the Laurel Ensemble, Chorus and appeared at the Cologne Charles Ives as a composer, he earned his Earplay, the Empyrean Ensemble, the Triennial, Berlin Biennial, Salzburg (1874-1954, United States) living in the insurance business, Bernal Hill Players, San Francisco Zeitfluss, Brussels Ars Nova, Venice was one of the first American ultimately creating an agency that Cabaret Opera, Sonic Harvest and Biennial, and Budapest Autumn composers of international renown. long outlasted his retirement. He others. festivals. Ms. Rose holds degrees in Though Ives’ music was largely recognized the divergence of his life viola performance from The Juilliard ignored during his life, and most of from the more conventional path of School and the Northwest German his works went unperformed for teacher/conductor/composer that Thalia Moore Music Academy; and a degree in many years, over time he came to be certainly would have been open (cello), attended English and American history and regarded as an “American Original.” to someone of his gifts; however, the Juilliard School He combined the American popular he relished the freedom that his of Music as a literature from . and church-music traditions of his business success brought to develop scholarship student his experimental compositional Performers style without regard for its marketability. In addition to his active freelance career, teaches at musical legacy, Ives is credited with T e r r i e B a u n e the University of California, Davis, inventing the modern system of (violin), in addition and directs the San Francisco Bay estate planning. to being a member of Earplay, she is Co- Area Chapter of the American Concertmaster of Composers Forum.

the Oakland-East Bay Symphony and Concertmaster of the North State Symphony and M a r y C h u n a former member of the Empyrean (conductor) Ensemble. Her professional credits has premiered include concertmaster positions with the works of the Women’s Philharmonic, Fresno many composers, Philharmonic, Santa Cruz County including John Symphony, and Rohnert Park Symphony. Adams earth-quake romance I Was A member of the National Symphony Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw Orchestra for four years, she also the Sky, which she conducted in spent two years as a member of the Paris, Hamburg, and Montreal. In Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra of demand as a collaborator for new New Zealand, where she toured and lyric work and traditional operatic recorded for Radio New Zealand with repertoire, she has worked with the Gabrielli Trio and performed with opera companies in Europe and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. the U.S. such as Opera de Lyon, La Monnaie, Kosice State Opera, Opera Theater, Opera

T o d B r o d y Theater of Saint Louis, Opera (flute) has been Idaho, the Shakespeare in the forefront of Festival, Cleveland Lyric Opera, contemporary music Pacific Repertory Opera, the Los activity in northern Angeles Music Center Opera and California through San Francisco Opera. In Fall 2006 his performances she premiered Every Man Jack, � and recordings with the San Francisco a new chamber opera based on Contemporary Music Players, Earplay, and the life of writer Jack London, the Empyrean Ensemble. He maintains an