Program Mar 09.Indd
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players David Milnes, Music Director Moving pictures, picture music Performers: Monday, 30 March 2009, 8 pm Tod Brody, fl ute Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum Carey Bell, clarinet (Paris) Peter Josheff , clarinet (Solbiati) Julie Steinberg, piano (Paris) Alessandro Solbiati, Sestetto à Gérard (2006) Ann Yi, piano (Solbiati) U.S. Premiere Christopher Froh, percussion (Approximate duration: 17 minutes) Graeme Jennings, violin (Solbiati, Paris) Roy Malan, violin (Paris) Philippe Hurel, Loops IV (2005) (Approximate duration: 7 minutes) Ellen Ruth Rose, viola (Solbiati) Daniel Kennedy, marimba Nanci Severance, viola (Paris) Leighton Fong, cello Tristan Murail, Cloches d’adieu, et un sourire... (Bells of farewell, and a smile) (1992) (Approximate duration: 4 minutes) and La Mandragore (Th e Mandrake) (1993) (Approximate duration: 9 minutes) Julie Steinberg, piano Intermission François Paris, À propos de Nice (2005) U.S. Premiere with Tonight’s performance is supported in part by: Jean Vigo, À propos de Nice (fi lm, 1930) Th e Ross McKee Foundation; (Approximate duration: 22 minutes) Th e French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE with support from Cultural Services of the French Embassy, CulturesFrance, SACEM, and the Florence Gould Foundation; Istituto Italiano di Cultura; Th e Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at U. C. Berkeley. Program Notes in the not so easy world of music today...than to dedicate a ‘birth’ in music, a gradual explosion of vital energy.” Alessandro Solbiati [b. 1956] Like many contemporary composers, Solbiati has fostered working relation- ships with particular musicians, including pianist Jay Gottlieb, cellists Mario “I have always liked black and white photography,” writes Alessandro Solbiati: Brunello and Alexis Descharmes, and percussionist Dario Savron.
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