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San Francisco Contemporary Music Players on STAGE series Kinetic Transformations CAGE CUNNINGHAM COWELL CLYNE COLL JUSTEN HUNTER January 17, 2020 Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall SF Conservatory of Music San Francisco, CA SFCMP SAN FRANCISCO CONTEMPORARY MUSIC PLAYERS Dear Friend of SFCMP, Tod Brody, flute San Francisco Contemporary Music Contemporary music is where you get to have adventures and hear things you’ve Kyle Bruckmann, oboe Players is the West Coast’s most never heard before. Hopefully, you’ll go home tonight with the palpable sense that Sarah Rathke, oboe longstanding and largest new music ensemble, comprised of 22 highly skilled anything is possible. Jeff Anderle, clarinet musicians. For 49 years, the Players Tonight’s concert is part of our in the Laboratory series where we explore works Peter Josheff, clarinet have created innovative and artistically that take a stand, change the formula of what came before, and open new doors. Adam Luftman, trumpet excellent music and are one of the Charles Boone, our first artistic director has this advice for you tonight: Peter Wahrhaftig, tuba most active ensembles in the United “Audiences should bring a sense of expectancy. Which is to say they should hope Chris Froh, percussion States dedicated to contemporary that something great will happen. And, if they do, there is a likelihood that it might.” Loren Mach, percussion music. Holding an important role in the — Charles Boone William Winant, percussion regional and national cultural landscape, the Players are a 2018 awardee of the We’re turning 50 next year and it is my wish that you will bring a friend to our Nick Woodbury, percussion esteemed Fromm Foundation Ensemble concerts. Please share your love of adventure and contemporary music. Our next Kate Campbell, piano Prize, and a ten-time winner of the event is on March 27 and March 28 featuring the work of Louis Andriessen, David David Tanenbaum, guitar CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Chisholm, Missy Mazzoli, Angelica Negrón, and more. Hrabba Atladottir, violin Programming. The Players have See you–and your friends—soon! I’d love to meet them at the reception. Susan Freier, violin performed more than 1,200 works by Sincerely, Roy Malan, violin over 600 composers; over 300 of these performances have been premieres, Meena Bhasin, viola and the organization has commissioned Nanci Severance, viola Lisa Oman, Executive Director over 80 major works including pieces Hannah Addario-Berry, cello P.S. I’d like to thank the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for hosting us from John Adams, John Cage, Earle tonight. This is our seventh side-by-side project together, and we’re grateful to Stephen Harrison, cello Brown, Olly Wilson, Michael Gordon, Du share this music with you in this beautiful space. Richard Worn, contrabass Yun, Myra Melford, and Julia Wolfe. 2 • San Francisco Contemporary Music Players SFCMP.org • 3 A MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, ERIC DUDLEY Dear friends of Contemporary Music, relationship between dance and music in a decent amount of willful humor and relationship by presenting some of the ways that continue to shape the dialogue non sequitur underlies the scenarios work of students in SFCM’s Technology Thank you for being with us tonight for between the art forms to this day, and he imagined for the dance frames. and Applied Composition program in our in the LABORATORY series concert left us with a legacy of works that still With Contemporary Players pianist concert, alongside our focus on the in our 49th season! The evening’s provoke, surprise, question, and astonish. Kate Campbell interpreting the solo music of Louis Andriessen in our at the program is an exploration of gesture part, alongside the auditory and visual CROSSROADS series! through the vehicle of physical bodies, Tonight, we explore the realm of the kinetics of a multimedia piece by Anna be they human or man-made, and is kinetic, and in so doing, bring to the Clyne, and with the voices of California Once again, thank you for joining us inspired in large part by the widespread stage one of the Bay Area’s most and Bay Area composers Gloria Justen, tonight, thank you for your support of celebrations this season in honor prominent and engaging creators in the David Coll, and Henry Cowell amplifying contemporary music, and please continue of one of the greatest contributors dance community, Antoine Hunter. Mr. the theme, the evening’s forays into to be with us for the exciting offerings we to the language of gesture, Merce Hunter partners with us in developing the fluidity of form and expression will have ahead in our 49th season! Cunningham. With 2019 now behind us, a new solo choreography in the spirit dance across various articulations of the the hundredth anniversary of his birth of Cunningham’s original partner concepts that fired the imagination of a With deep gratitude and warmest regard, year, we have the opportunity of joining piece for Cage’s Concert for Piano figure like Cunningham so regularly. Eric Dudley, Artistic Director with the enthusiasts of a sister art form and Orchestra, aptly titled Antic Meet, in recalling what an indelible impact his and as the name suggests, there is a We are always grateful for our continued work had on the vocabulary of modern tradition of caprice and playfulness that partnership with the San Francisco dance, and by extension through his follows the evolution of both works. In Conservatory of Music, and very pleased own multivalent talents, on the world of the case of the Cage, the whimsy–or to have students from SFCM joining us contemporary music also. Cunningham more accurately, informed freedom– in performance tonight as a part of our and his circle of collaborators, including lies in the choices given to each of the ongoing education and professional the equally impactful presence of John performers on the exact manner of development programs. Looking ahead Cage, rethought and redefined the playing their parts, and for Cunningham, to our next concert, we will continue that 4 • San Francisco Contemporary Music Players SFCMP.org • 5 SCHEDULE PROGRAM 5:30pm Doors open, enjoy dinner and drinks at Café Crème (downstairs SFCM, Gloria Justen, Flowing-Turning Dance from Sonaquifer Suite (2015) [5’] Cafe Level) Hannah Addario-Berry, solo cello 6:30pm - 7:20pm How Music is Made program: Composer talk and music David Coll, Caldera (2016) [8’] demonstrations with special guests Antoine Hunter, dancer and composers Gloria (West Coast Premiere) Jeff Anderle, bass clarinet; Haruka Fujii, marimba Justen and David Coll facilitated by Eric Dudley. Henry Cowell, Mosaic Quartet (String Quartet No. 3) (1935) [c. 16’] 8:00pm Concert Roy Malan, violin; Susan Freier, violin; Meena Bhasin, viola; Stephen Harrison, cello Post-concert Party (2nd floor Atrium) Intermission Anna Clyne, Steelworks (2006) [15’] Tod Brody, flute/piccolo; Jeff Anderle, bass clarinet; Haruka Fujii, percussion John Cage, Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1958) [c. 20-25’] Antoine Hunter, dancer; Kate Campbell, solo piano; Tod Brody, piccolo/flute/alto flute; Liam Jeremy Chua**, flute; Peter Josheff, clarinet; Ivan Ferguson**, clarinet; Shawn Jones, bassoon; Shelby Capozzoli**, bassoon; Brad Hogarth, trumpet; Hrabba Atladottir, violin; Roy Malan, violin; Meena Bhasin, viola; Hannah Addario- Berry, cello; Abigail Monroe**, cello; Richard Worn, double bass Learn more at SFCMP.org **SFCM students 6 • San Francisco Contemporary Music Players SFCMP.org • 7 NOTES ON THE PROGRAM by Artistic Director, Eric Dudley , and we feature a number of works that exist in a kind of musical Collective Sebastian Bach, whose music for Guest Composers inhabit the connection points between Unconscious or ‘memory bank.’ I have solo stringed instruments serves as a the musical and the kinetic, through reached into this archetypal sonic model. The piece is reminiscent of a The relationship between Merce various means of making physical spring and pulled out phrases, chords, Baroque suite in its form: alternating Cunningham and John Cage was one changes to the materials of music, to rhythms, and patterns.” As a part of her slow, meditative movements with of those uniquely prolific and deeply the bodies of instruments, and through 2015 Scordatura Project, cellist Hanna faster, dance-like movements. The soul-affecting unions, on both an the interactivity of multimedia, including Addario-Berry commissioned some Flowing-Turning Dance also has artistic and personal level, as we find a piece from the legacy of Cunningham of the music that would eventually elements of Eastern European folk in special instances throughout the and Cage cast in a new light. become Sonaquifer Suite, for which music, such as uneven meters and whole of musical and artistic history. Flowing-Turning Dance is now the playing a melody line against a drone In the hundredth anniversary season In Flowing-Turning Dance from fourth movement. That project was string.” of Cunningham’s birth, it is only fitting Sonaquifer Suite for solo cello, a in celebration of another hundredth to pay tribute to the ways in which physical shift occurs on the instrument anniversary, namely the composition David Coll’s Caldera encompasses his work in particular, through his itself through the act of loosening of Zoltán Kodály’s Sonata for Solo greater physical actions upon the creative partnership with Cage and and de-tuning the lowest strings to Cello, a piece that calls for the alternate instruments involved, including bits other key avant-garde composers, create alternate pitch options. The tuning (scordatura) of shifting the of tinfoil stuffed in the bell of a bass effectively helped to change the course fluidity and motion of water is also lowest two strings of the cello down clarinet and placed underneath the bars of dance, music and interdisciplinary suggested by the title, as composer one-half step.
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