2006-07 Season Earplay:22 Musing Monday, September 18, 2006, 7:00 PM Earplay 22: Exploring Monday, March 12, 2007 James H. Carr Christopher Wendell Jones György Ligeti Krzysztof Penderecki Kurt Rohde Earplay 22: Visioning Monday, May 21, 2007 as part of the San Francisco International Arts Festival Tickets: Free (Donations appreciated) September 18, 2006 SPECIAL PRODUCTION: Libby Larsen, Every Man Jack (2006) World Premiere Sonoma City Opera November 11, 12, 15, 18 & 19, 2006 www.sonomaopera.org elcome to an Earplay performance.performance. Our mission is to nuture new chamber music --composition, performance, and audience--all vital components. Each concert Wfeatures the renowned members of the Earplay ensemble performing as soloists and ensemble artists, along with special guests. Over twenty-one years, Earplay has made an enormous contribution to the bay area music community. Th e Earplay Earplay ensemble has performed hundreds of works by more than two hundred composers. Earplay hashas commissionedcommissioned anan averageaverage ofof twotwo Donald Aird new works per season, and has presented more than one hundred Memorial world premieres. Composers Competition Th is year the concerts are free to encourage more people to listen to new music. We appreciate your donations to make this possible. We look forward to meeting you and hearing your Downloadable application at: www.earplay.org/competitions responses.. Deadline: October 28, 2006 Richard Aldag President, Board of Directors Special Thanks To: Earplay Earplay Staff Dennis Wadlington, Sherman-Clay Board of Directors San Francisco Girls Chorus Jennifer Burke, Industry Richard Aldag, president Aislinn Scofi eld Melissa Apuya Stephen Ness, secretary executive director Jeff Byers Dan Scharlin, treasurer Scott Koué Chris Froh technical director/stage manager Scott Koué Terrie Baune, musician representative Terrie Baune Jensine Martinez Mary Chun scheduling coordinator Steve Ness Christopher Wendell Jones Bill Beckerman Kevin Neuhoff Nicole Rodriguez- May Luke bookkeeping services Karen Rosenak Regina Sneed SAN FRANCISCO WAR MEMORIAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Monday Evening, September 18,, 2006, at 700 p.m. HERBST THEATRE Owned and operated by the City and County of San Francisco The Herbst Theatre through the Board of Trustees of the War Memorial of San Francisco Th e Honorable Gavin Newsom, Mayor Musing TRUSTEES EARPLAY 22: Wilkes Bashford, President Th omas E. Horn, Vice President Nancy H. Bechtle Mary Chun, conductor Bella Farrow Mrs. Walter A. Haas, Jr. Tod Brody, fl utes TerrieTerrie Baune,Baune, violin Claude M. Jarman, Jr. Peter Josheff, clarinets Ellen Ruth Rose, viola Chrysanthy Leones Karen Rosenak, piano Thalia Moore, cello Mrs. George R. Moscone Paul F. Pelosi Paul E. Reynolds Charlotte Mailliard Shultz Guest Artists Eleni Takopoulos-Kounalakis Elizabeth Murray, Managing Director Gregory P. Ridenour, Assistant Managing Director Jeremy Galyon, bass-baritone Chris Froh, percussion Kevin Neuhoff, percussion Featured Soloist Terrie Baune Earplay is funded in part by the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, The Amphion Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund for New Music, the Bernard Osher Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, Meet the Composer, the Ross McKee Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, the San Francisco Grants for the Arts, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Zellerbach Family Fund, and Generous Donors. Program Donors Anonymous Richard Festinger Amelie C. Mel De Fontenay John Adams & Deborah O’Grady Stephanie & Donald Friedman Amy & Jeff Miller Carol & Brooke Aird Pablo Furman Mary Montella Vincent Persichetti Infanta Marina (1960) Linda Allen Jane Galante John Mugge & Ronald Caltabiano Ellen Ruth Rose and Karen Rosenak Allen Anderson Guillermo Galindo Bari & Stephen Ness Caroline Armstrong Stacy Garrop Florence Neuhoff Ann Basart Konstantin Gavrilov and H. Cross Professor Anthony Newcomb Ronald Caltabiano Lines from Poetry (1992) Ross Bauer Daniel Godfrey Samuel Nichols & Laurie San Martin William Beck & Yu-Hui Chang Stuart Gold Wendy Niles Terrie Baune William Beckerman Margot Golding Roger Nixon John Bell Violet & Douglas Gong Nora Norden Peter Josheff House and Garden Tales Diane & Stephen Bieneman Elinor Hagedorn Larry Ochs Frances L. Bennion Mark Haiman & Ellen Ruth Rose Pablo Ortiz (World Premiere, 2005, revised 2006) Herb Bielawa Alice Hannah Kurt Patzner Jeremy Galyon, Tod Brody, Ellen Ruth Seth Brenzel & Malcolm Gaines Stephen J. Harrison David Pereira Rose, Thalia Moore, and Karen Rosenak Kitty Brody Valerie & Richard Herr Wayne Peterson Mrs. William H. V. Brooke David Hollander Andrew Rindfl eisch Elva Buckhalter Martha Horst Jody Rockmaker Ann Callaway Andrew W. Imbrie Kurt Rohde Intermission Henry Caltabiano Kenneth Johnson David Rakowski John & Mary Caris Christopher Wendell Jones Martin Rokeach Allen Shearer Bagatelles (2006) William B. Carlin Leslie Ann Jones Jerome Rosen James & April Carlson Yoshi Kakudo Karen Rosenak (World Premiere) James Carr Louis Karchin Dan Scharlin Tod Brody and Peter Josheff Chen Yi & Long Zhou Renu Karir & Ian Atlas Janice Schopfer John Chowning Hi Kyung Kim & John Sackett William Schottstaedt Mary Chun Ruth Knier Allen Shearer Chen Yi YangKo Raymond & Mary Chun William Kraft Steven D. Smith West Coast Premiere (2000, arranged 2004) Wayne Chun Arthur Kreiger Megan Solomon Alice Berg Cronin Ann Kroeber Jeff rey Stadelman Terrie Baune, Chris Froh, and Lori Dobbins Antoinette Kuhry & Thomas A. Kurt Stallmann Kevin Neuhoff Margaret Dorfman Haeuser John Swackhamer Barbara & Sanford Dornbusch Jules Langert David Tanenbaum Richard & Anna Carol Dudley Richard & Patricia Taylor Lee John Thow Libby Larsen Slang (1994) Patti Noel Dueter Amy Miller Levine Carla Wilson West Coast Premiere Edwin & Katherine Dugger Ursula & Dwight Mamlock John & Linda Wilson Drs. Michael & Jane Marmor Peter Josheff, Terrie Baune, and Jeff L. Dunn Daniel Weymouth George Edwards Paul & Ellen McKaskle Mark Winges Karen Rosenak Richard Felciano Nancy & Howard Mel Dan & Rachel Winheld Earplay Composers: Twenty-Two Years Notes on the Program Eliane Aberdam Fredrik Fahlman David Lang Virginia Samuel American composer Vincent Sarah Aderholdt Richard Felciano Massimo Lauricella Laurie San Martin Infanta Marina Thomas Adès John Felder Richard Lavenda Carlos Sanchez-Gutiérrez This piece by Persichetti, an American, Persichetti (1915-87) was, Donald Aird Morton Feldman Mario Lavista Marc Satterwhite is for viola and piano and is based on a along with William Schuman Richard Aldag Richard Festinger Anne LeBaron Eric Sawyer literary source, a Wallace Stevens poem and Walter Piston, one of the Alexis Alrich Irving Fine Yinam Leef Ralph Shapey Allen Anderson Tom Flaherty Fred Lerdahl David Schiff titled “Infanta Marina.” The dreamlike foremost representatives of Robert Basart Andrew Frank Peter ScottLewis David Schober text depicts a young woman emerging what has become known, somewhat Ross Bauer David Froom Jorge Liderman Philippe Schoeller from the sea into a world where “Her inappropriately, as the American Bruce Christian Bennett Pablo Furman Peter Lieberson Arnold Schoenberg terrace was the sand / And the palms Arthur Berger Guillermo Galindo György Ligeti Roger Sessions academic school of composition. Born Jonathan Berger Michael Gandolfi Liza Lim and the twilight.” In life, an infanta was in Philadelphia during the First World Allen Shearer the daughter of a Spanish or Portuguese Luciano Berio Guy Garnett Scott Lindroth Sheila Silver War, Persichetti began studying music at Stacy Garrop David Liptak Christophe Bertrand Reynold Simpson monarch. Herb Bielawa John Gibson Zhou Long the age of five, taking lessons in piano, Paul Siskind Susan Blaustein James Giroudonv Jing Jing Luo organ, and, later, theory and composition. Ronald Bruce Smith Stephen Blumberg Glenn Glasow Witold Lutoslawski Persichetti entered Combs College of David Soley Infanta Marina by Wallace Stevens Linda Bouchard Daniel Godfrey Drake Mabry Music, studying with composer Russel King Pierre Boulez Alexander Goehr John MacDonald Harvey Sollberger Claudio Spies Miller while still attending public school, Martin Boykan Perry Goldstein Steven Mackey Her terrace was the sand Carolyn Bremer Michelle Green Katherine Malyi Jeff Stadelman and in 1935 he took a BM in composition Benjamin Britten Mark Grey Ursula Mamlock Kurt Stallman And the palms and the twilight. from Combs and was appointed Head of Ann Callaway Stephen Michael Gryc Donald Martino Dorrance Stalvey Music Theory at Combs immediately after Eitan Steinberg Ronald Caltabiano Susan Harding David Meckstroth graduating. Frank Stemper Edmund Campion Lou Harrison Marjorie Merryman She made of the motions of her wrist James Carr Ellen Ruth Harrison Olivier Messiaen Mark Stickman Elliott Carter Stephen Hartke Donal Michalsky Igor Stravinsky The grandiose gestures Chris Chafe Hugh Hartwell Darius Milhaud Kotoka Suzuki Persichetti accepted an invitation to take Yu-Hui Chang Jonathan Harvey Eric Moe Toru Takemitsu Of her thought. over as head of theory and composition at Eric Chasalow Hans Werner Henze Paul Moravec Bruce Taub the Philadelphia Conservatory in 1941, and Yi Chen Martin Herman Gustavo Moretto John Thow in 1947 he joined the composition faculty The rumpling of the plumes Miguel Chuagui Jennifer Higdon Tristan Murail Leilei Tian of the Juilliard School. Three Guggenheim Timothy Vincent Clark Vincent Chee-yung Ho Thea Musgrave Ushio Torikai Of this creature of the evening Steven