Herbst Theatre at the San Francisco War Memorial Building (San Francisco, CA)
New chamber music ensemble Earplay continues its 24th season with a program featuring works by composers born outside of the U.S. Exotic and lyrical with colorful instrumentation, Lyric Kaleidoscopes features the world premiere of a newly-commissioned work by Bay Area composer Linda Bouchard, and a tribute to the ongoing legacy of influential modern composer Olivier Messiaen.
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The Herbst is small by most performing-arts standards (only 928 seats). So despite its stately appearance, it provides a refreshingly intimate atmosphere.
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Website: http://www.earplay.org/this_season/concert3.html
<p>Presented in association with the San Francisco International Arts Festival</p> <p>Featuring compositions by Linda Bouchard, Elliott Carter, Jonathan Harvey, Olivier Messiaen and the Donald Aird Memorial Competition winner.</p> <p>Earplay's third concert of the season, Earplay 24: Lyric Kaleidoscopes, exotic and lyrical with colorful instrumentation, features works by composers born outside of the U.S. and will open the San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featured is the world premiere of Linda Bouchard’s latest work and an Earplay commission. Special guest composer Jonathan Harvey will attend the performance of his elegant flute quartet Lotuses (1992).</p> <p>With a second centennial nod, Earplay brings together the work of Olivier Messiaen with composers who have responded, directly or indirectly, to the legacy of Messiaen. As an extremely influential figure at the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, Germany, Messiaen’s music and teaching had a profound impact on composers in post-war Europe. Pianist Karen Rosenak will be the featured soloist in Messiaen’s rarely played 1948 piano piece, Canteyodjâya, a work that brings together much of Messiaen’s revolutionary ways of structuring rhythm and harmony. Swiss composer, Klaus Huber, whose music, like Messiaen’s, brings together the modernity of serialism with ancient practices, will be represented by his piece for mezzo-soprano, viola and piano, Fragmente Aus FrühLing , In memoriam Karol Szymanowski und Bruno Schulz (1987).</p>
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