Lyric Kaleidoscopes, a Program from Modern Chamber Ensemble Earplay
Herbst Theatre at the San Francisco War Memorial Building (401 Van Ness Ave San Francisco, CA 94102)
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Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Plays Schumann's Cello Concerto
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British violoncello soloist Steven Isserlis and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, under the baton of conductor Nicholas McGegan, perform a trio of 19th-century works by that era's leading composers, highlighted by Robert Schumann's 1850 Cello Concerto. An award-winning cellist and educator, Isserlis is a noted expert on Schumann, and recently released a full disc featuring his works. Felix Mendelssohn's evocative overture from The Fair Melusine, based on a Goethe story, opens the program, while Brahms' Serenade No. 2 provides the stirring finale. The Philharmonia is now in its 31st season of entertaining Northern California audiences, and offers a discussion with Scott Foglesong prior to each performance. Learn More
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<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>