Earplay 24: American Tapestry Monday, October 20, 2008 Elliott Carter, Pablo Furman, Jennifer Higdon, William Kraft, Eric Zivian
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Earplay San Francisco Season Concerts 2008-09 Season Herbst Theatre, 7:30 PM Pre-concert talk 6:45 pm Earplay 24: American Tapestry Monday, October 20, 2008 Elliott Carter, Pablo Furman, Jennifer Higdon, William Kraft, Eric Zivian Earplay 24: Time Landscapes Monday, March 2, 2009 Elliott Carter, Alexander Hills, Toshio Hosokawa, Andrew Imbrie, Mei-Fang Lin March 2, 2009 Earplay 24: Lyric Kaleidoscope Wednesday, May 20, 2009 as part of the San Francisco International Arts Festival Linda Bouchard, Elliott Carter, Jonathan Harvey, Olivier Messiaen, Nicolas Tzortzis Earplay 24 Time Landscapes earplay commission/world premiere 2008 Winner, Earplay Donald Aird Memorial Composition Competition elcome to Earplay’s 24th San Francisco season. Our mission is to nurture new chamber music --composition, performance, and audience--all vital Wcomponents. Each concert features the renowned members of the Earplay ensemble performing as soloists and ensemble artists, along with special guests. Over twenty-four years, Earplay has made an enormous contribution to the bay area music community with new works commission each season. The Earplay ensemble has performed hundreds of works by more than two hundred composers Earplay including presenting more than one hundred world premieres. Donald Aird The 2008-09 season links the rich variety of new Memorial chamber music being created here in our own backyard with Composers Competition the music of the 20th century. A “mini-survey” of music by renowned American composer Elliott Carter serves as a gateway between the traditions of the late 20th century to the new music Downloadable application at: of the 21st century. www.earplay.org/competitions These are difficult financial times and especially so for Deadline: an organization like Earplay that is at the forefront of bringing July 31, 2009 new works to the recital hall. Enjoy this evening and we look to seeing you for the rest of the season. Stephen Ness President, Board of Directors Special Thanks To: Earplay Earplay Staff Board of Directors Nigel Gilchrist, Absolutely Music Advisory Board Dennis Wadlington, Sherman-Clay Stephen Ness, president Aislinn Scofield Jennifer Burke, Industry May Luke secretary executive director Richard Felciano , Scott Koué Dan Scharlin treasurer , Scott Koué Loren Mach William Kraft technical director/stage manager Steve Ness Kent Nagano Terrie Baune musician representative Terrie Baune , Ellen Ruth Rose Wayne Peterson Mary Chun scheduling coordinator Karen Rosenak Christopher Wendell Jones Bill Beckerman Eric Zivian Chen Yi bookkeeping services SAN FRANCISCO WAR MEMORIAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER HERBST THEATRE Monday Evening, March 2 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 Gavin Newsom, Mayor EARPLAY 24: Time Landscapes TRUSTEES Mary Chun, conductor Nancy H. Bechtle, President Charlotte Mailliard Shultz, Vice President Wilkes Bashford Tod Brody, flutes Terrie Baune, violin Belva Davis Peter Josheff, clarinets Ellen Ruth Rose, viola Bella Farrow Karen Rosenak, piano Thalia Moore, cello Thomas E. Horn Claude M. Jarman, Jr. Mrs. George R. Moscone Guest Artists MajGen J. Michael Myatt, USMC (Ret.) Paul Pelosi Eric Zivian, piano Loren Mach, vibraphone Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Elizabeth Murray, Managing Director Jennifer E. Norris, Assistant Managing Director Pre-concert talk 6:45 p.m. A conversation moderated by Bruce Bennett with Mei-Fang Lin Earplay’s season is made possible with funding from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, the Amphion Foundation, the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, the Bernard Osher Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ross McKee Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, the San Francisco Grants for the Arts, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Community Arts Committee of the Zellerbach Family Fund and Generous Donors. Program Donors (since January 2008) $10,000 + $200 + $50 + The San Francisco Jane Bernstein and Linda Allen Toshio Hosokawa Vertical Time Study III (1994) Grants For the Arts Robert Ellis Mark Applebaum Terrie Baune and Karen Rosenak The Aaron Copland John & Mary Caris William Beckerman Raymond Chun Foundation Ann Callaway The William and Flora Patti Noel Dueter David Cole and Linda Hewlett Foundation Ellinor Hagedorn Bouchard Mei-Fang Lin Friction (2008) Mary Montella Chris Concolino World Premiere/Earplay Commission $5,000 + Florence Neuhoff Lori Dobbins Ann and Gordon Getty Wayne Chun Wong Hal Fischer Foundation Guillermo Galindo Tod Brody and Ellen Ruth Rose The National Endowment $100 + Konstantin Gavrilov and for the Arts Tod Brody H. Cross Friction was commissioned by the Earplay The San Francisco William Beck & Yu-Hui Margot Golding New Music Ensemble through the American Foundation Chang Benjamin Harrison Composers Forum’s Northern California Herbert W. Bielawa John and Lee Hause Composers Commissioning Program. $3,000 + James & April Carlson Valerie Herr The Amphion Foundation John & Mary Caris William Kraft The Bernard Osher John Chowning Arthur Kreiger Foundation Marilyn & Jackie Davis Paul & Ellen McKaskle Andrew Imbrie To a Traveler (1971) The Ross McKee Seth Brenzel & Malcolm Nancy & Howard Mel Foundation Gaines Terrie Baune, Peter Josheff, Samuel Nichols & Laurie The Community Arts Chen Yi and Zhou Long San Martin Eric Zivian Committee of the Alena Cowan Pablo Ortiz The Zellerbach Pablo Furman Kurt Rohde Family Foundation Douglas Gong Jerome Rosen intermission Mark Haiman & Ellen Mathew Rosenblum $1,000 + Ruth Rose Allen Shearer & Claudia Alice M. Ditson Fund of Martha Callison Horst Stevens Columbia University Kenneth Johnson Kim Stokoe Alexander Hills Line Study (2004) The Leff Foundation Louis Karchin Applera Antoinette Kuhry & Other Friends Mary Chun Mary Chun, Peter Josheff, Eric Zivian, Thomas A. Haeuser Frances L. Bennion Richard Festinger Loren Mach Richard & Patricia Taylor Kenneth Bruchmeier Yoshiko Kakudo Lee Anne Callaway May Luke Amy Miller Levine Ernestine S. Cohn Bari & Stephen Ness Mary Montella Alice Berg Cronin Karen Rosenak Nora Norden Barbara and Sanford Elliott Carter Cello Sonata (1948) Elizabeth O’Malley Dornbusch $300 + David Periera Donald & Stephanie Anonymous (1) Wayne Peterson Friedman Thalia Moore and Karen Rosenak Terrie Baune C. M. Richards Stephen J. Harrison Andrew W. Imbrie Dan Scharlin Alden Jenks (in memoriam) Sibylle Scholz Arthur Kreiger Christopher Wendell Donald and Phyllis Lin Mantell Jones Sutherland Amelie C. Mel De Ruth Knier Olly & Louise Wilson Fontenay Kevin Neuhoff Wendy Niles Larry Russo Peter Von Der Nahmer Aislinn Scofield William Schottstaedt Thomas White EARPLAY COMPOS E RS : TW E N T Y -FOUR YE ARS Notes on the Program Eliane Aberdam Mirtru Escalona-Mijares Meyer Kupferman Morris Rosenzweig at the Staatlichen Hochschule Sarah Aderholdt Leo Eylar Gyorgy Kurtag Chris Roze TOSHIO HOSOKAWA , Vertical Thomas Adès Fredrik Fahlman Bun-ching Lam Virginia Samuel für Musik in Freiburg. In 1980, he Donald Aird Richard Felciano David Lang Laurie San Martin Time Study III (1994) violin and Eleanor Alberga John Felder Massimo Lauricella Carlos Sanchez-Gutiérrez piano participated for the first time in Richard Aldag Morton Feldman Richard Lavenda Marc Satterwhite Alexis Alrich Richard Festinger Mario Lavista Eric Sawyer the Internationale Ferienkurse für Allen Anderson Irving Fine Anne LeBaron Ralph Shapey Mark Applebaum Tom Flaherty Yinam Leef Salvatore Sciarrino Neue Musik in Darmstadt, where Robert Basart Andrew Frank Fred Lerdahl David Schiff VE R T I C AL TIM E ST UDY III (1994) Ross Bauer David Froom Peter Scott Lewis David Schober his work was performed. Since then, Bruce Christian Bennett Pablo Furman Jorge Liderman Philippe Schoeller The violin symbolizes in the 1994 Arthur Berger Beat Fürrer Peter Lieberson Arnold Schoenberg Hosokawa has presented his works Jonathan Berger Guillermo Galindo Roger Sessions composed “ Vertically Study III” the György Ligeti in Europe and Japan, gaining an Luciano Berio Michael Gandolfi Liza Lim Allen Shearer internal voice of humans, the piano Christophe Bertrand Guy Garnett Mei-Fang Lin Sheila Silver international reputation and winning Herb Bielawa Stacy Garrop Scott Lindroth Reynold Simpson stands for nature and for the universe, Susan Blaustein John Gibson David Liptak Paul Siskind numerous awards and prizes. In Stephen Blumberg James Giroudonv Zhou Long Ronald Bruce Smith which surround humans. The silence Linda Bouchard Glenn Glasow Jing Jing Luo David Soley 2001, Hosokawa became a member Pierre Boulez Daniel Godfrey Witold Lutoslawski Harvey Sollberger corresponds to the boundless depths Martin Boykan Alexander Goehr Drake Mabry Claudio Spies of Akademie der Künste, Berlin. He Carolyn Bremer Perry Goldstein John MacDonald Jeff Stadelman of the human soul. It is a part of the Benjamin Britten Michelle Green Steven Mackey Kurt Stallman has been invited to nearly all of the Christopher Burns Mark Grey Katherine Malyi Dorrance Stalvey Vertical Time series begun in 1992 Ann Callaway Stephen Michael Gryc Eitan Steinberg Ursula Mamlock aiming to express a design of time major contemporary music festivals Ronald Caltabiano Susan Harding Donald Martino Frank Stemper Edmund Campion Lou Harrison David Meckstroth Mark Stickman in Europe as composer in residence, Ellen Ruth Harrison based upon the vertical elements James Carr Marjorie Merryman Igor Stravinsky Stephen Hartke Elliott