SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director
March Madness
8pm, March 8, Old First Church, 1725 Sacramento Street (at Van Ness), San Francisco, CA
Mark Alburger, John Kendall Bailey, and Martha Stoddard, conducting
Program
Philip Freihofner - The Bell Field
Martha Stoddard - A Little Trip to Outer Space
Lisa Scola Prosek - Chain Saw
Alexis Alrich - Fragile Forests: II Cambodia
Intermission
Dan Reiter - Toccata and Fugue
Michael Cooke - Sun and Moon
Erling Wold - Mordake
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SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:
February 10, 2008 SFCCO (707) 451-0714 mus21stc@aol.com
SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PRESENTS
"MARCH MADNESS"
8:00PM, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, OLD FIRST CHURCH,
1725 SACRAMENTO STREET (AT VAN NESS), SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO AND WORLD PREMIERES OF WORKS BY
ALEXIS ALRICH, MICHAEL COOKE, PHILIP FREIHOFNER,
MARTHA STODDARD, DAN REITER, AND ERLING WOLD
SAN FRANCISCO, February 8, 2007 -- Lunacy. Spaciness. Taking 20 years to write a piece. Thinking that music will save the planet. Having a face in the back of one's head. Suicidal thoughts.
Why do we do what we do? Because we can't do otherwise?
One thing's for sure: it's a crazy world. So come celebrate the craziness with Alexis Alrich, Michael Cooke, Philip Freihofner, Dan Reiter, Martha Stoddard, Erling Wold, and the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra as they present March Madness -- 8pm, Saturday, March 8, at Old First Church, 1725 Sacramento Street, in San Francisco.
Michael Cooke's Sun and Moon is a dizzying take on time and place, with members of the orchestra performing spacilly and spatially at the point-and-click discretion of Music Director Mark Alburger. Martha Stoddard, as Guest Conductor, will take the ensemble even farther out in A Little Trip to Outer Space where reality has lost its bearings.
The entire orchestra will evaporate in the clangor of metal as Philip Freihofner re-invents sanity in The Bell Field, while Dan Reiter's Toccata and Fugue will send minds reeling under the direction of Associate Conductor John Kendall Bailey toward a reckoning with Johann Sebastian Bach.
Farthest afield on earth will be Alexis Alrich's Fragile Forests: II Cambodia, where East and West consciousnesses collide in the loveliest possible manner. And, as a final coup-de-grace Erling Wold will evoke the diabolical in Mordake Suite No. 2, in hint of his mad opera to be premiered later in the year.
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TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's "March Madness" on March 8, at 8.00 p.m. at Old First Church, 1725 Sacramento Street (at Van Ness), San Francisco are $15 general, $12 students and seniors. Tickets are available through the Old First Church Box Office at (415) 474-1608 and at the door. For more information, please call Old First Church Box Office, or the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra at (707) 451-0714, or visit the organizations' respective websites at www.sfcco.org and www.oldfirstconcerts.org. Tickets are also available at www.ticketweb.com. Other links to the show may be found at myspace.com/sfcco, myspace.com/blackhatrecords, myspace.com/erlingwold, myspace.com/markalburger, and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com
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CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE:
OLD FIRST CONCERTS PRESENTS
Saturday, March 8, at 8:00 p.m. Old First Church
1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness
San Francisco, CA
(415) 474-1608
MARCH MADNESS
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Program:
Alexis Alrich - Fragile Forests: II Cambodia
Michael Cooke - Sun and Moon
Philip Freihofner - The Bell Field
Dan Reiter - Toccata and Fugue
Martha Stoddard - A Little Trip to Outer Space
Erling Wold - Mordake
Tickets:$15 general, $12 students and seniors, available through the Old First Church Box Office at (415) 474-1608, at the door, and at www.ticketweb.com.
More information at sfcco.org and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com
Flute
Bruce Salvisberg
Harry Bernstein
Martha Stoddard
Oboe
Philip Freihofner
Sarah Rathke
Clarinet
Rachel Condry
Bassoon
Michael Cooke
Michael Garvey
Lori Garvey
Karla Ekholm
Trumpet
Josh Silva
Horn
David Sprung
Vocalist
Charya Burt
Piano
Alexis Alrich
Synthesizer
Erling Wold
Percussion
Victor Flaviani
Anne Szalba
Delphean Quan
Greg Simmons
Violin I
Monika Gruber
Clare Twohy
Violin II
Hande Erdem
Mari Morikawa
Viola
Charith Premawardhana
Katrina Wreede
Cello
Dan Reiter
Paul Rhodes
Beth Snellings
Bass
Richard Duke
Endowers
David Graves
Lisa Scola Prosek
Recording Engineer
Karen Stackpole
Rehearsal 1, February 28, 2008, Potrero Hill Neighborhood House Theatre, SF
Scola Prosek, Stoddard, Condry, Szalba, Salvisberg, Simmons, Freihofner, Rathke, Sprung, Erdem, Morikawa
Stoddard, Condry, Salvisberg, Szalba, Freihofner
Bernstein, Duke
Simmons, Salvisberg, Freihofner, Rathke, Sprung
Erdem, Morikawa, Condry, Silva, Wold, Premawardhana
Morikawa, Condry, Graves, Szalba, Ekholm, Sprung, Silva
Ekholm, Cooke, M. Garvey, L. Garvey, Duke
Sprung, Ekholm, Premawardhana, Cooke, M. Garvey, L. Garvey, Alrich
L. Garvey, Duke, Reiter
Sprung, Wold
L. Garvey, Rhodes, Kendall Bailey, Gruber, Premawardhana, Erdem, M. Garvey, Quan, Silva, Condry, Salvisberg, Cooke
Szalba, Simmons
Quan, Szalba, Simmons
Simmons, Quan, Szalba
Gruber, Salvisberg, Scola Prosek, Freihofner, Erdem, Morikawa, Simmons
Erdem, Szalba, Morikawa, Sprung, Silva, Ekholm, Premawardhana, M. Garvey
Szalba, Premawardhana, Simmons, Ekholm
Cooke, Wold, Rhodes, M. Garvey, Reiter, Snellings
Duke, Reiter, Stoddard
Silva, Alrich
Scola Prosek, Silva
Morikawa, M. Garvey, Premawardhana, L. Garvey, Erdem, Bernstein, Rhodes, Duke, Snellings, Reiter, Gruber, Kendall Bailey
Kendall Bailey, Simmons
Scola Prosek, Szalba, Wold
Erdem, Duke, Reiter, Stoddard, Rhodes, Gruber
Freihofner, Sprung, Wold, Condry, Silva, Erdem
Salvisberg, Freihofner, Simmons, Erdem, Gruber, Morikawa, Ekholm, Premawardhana, Cooke, Kendall Bailey
Wold, Scola Prosek
Rehearsal 2, March 2, 2008, Potrero Hill Neighborhood House Theatre, SF
Freihofner, Rathke, Sprung, Erdem, Twohy, Cooke, Wreede, M. Garvey, Premawardhana, Gruber, L. Garvey, Bailey
Tom Prosek, Flaviani
Rehearsal 4 (Dress), Old First Church, SF
Bernstein, Szalba, Salvisberg, Freihofner
Bernstein, Gruber, Alrich, Twohy, Flaviani, Erdem, Quan
Freihofner, Erdem, Rathke, Morikawa, Szalba, Ekholm, Premawardhana, Cooke
Freihofner, Condry, Sprung, Silver, Cooke, M. Garvey
Twohy, Alrich, Flaviani, Erdem, Freihofner, Quan, Morikawa, Szalba, Condry
Erdem, Spurng, Cooke, Morikawa, M. Garvey, Premawardhana
Alrich, Flaviani
Reiter, Duke
Twohy, Bernstein, Morikawa, M. Garvey, L. Garvey, Premawardhana, Rhodes, Snellings, Gruber, Bailey
M. Garvey, Erdem, Premawardhana, Duke, Reiter, Stoddard, Gruber
Salvisberg, Freihofner, Ekholm, Sprung, Cooke, Bernstein, Erdem, M. Garvey, Morikawa, Twohy, L. Garvey, Premawardhana, Rhodes, Snellings
Concert Warm-Up, March 8, 2008
Szalba, Salvisberg, Freihofner, Condry
Ekholm, Sprung, Silver
L. Garvey, Stackpole
Harriet March Page, Burt, Alrich
Flaviani, Burt, Salvisberg, Szalba, Freihofner
Wold, Bailey
Alrich, Quan
Alrich, Gruber, Twohy, Szalba, Morikawa, Cooke, Sprung, Premawardhana
Premawardhana, Reiter, Duke
