SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 5, 2009
CONTACT:
SFCCO (707) 451-0714
mus21stc@gmail.com
SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PRESENTS
"DREAMS OF THE RESTLESS"
8:00PM, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, OLD FIRST CHURCH,
1725 SACRAMENTO STREET (AT VAN NESS), SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO AND WORLD PREMIERES OF WORKS BY
MICHAEL COOKE, ALLAN CROSSMAN, PHILIP FREIHOFNER, LOREN JONES, LISA SCOLA PROSEK, DAVIDE VEROTTA, ERLING WOLD AND FOGNOZZLE, AND MARK ALBURGER
SAN FRANCISCO, May 5, 2009 -- To dream, perchance to sleep. Not a chance of the latter, as the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra presents Dreams of the Restless, 8pm, Saturday, June 13, at Old First Church in San Francisco. Composers Michael Cooke, Allan Crossman, Philip Freihofner, Loren Jones, Lisa Scola Prosek, Davide Verotta, Erling Wold, Fognozzle, and Mark Alburger will explore the world of suggestion and dreams, inspired by abstract ponderings, restless fears, and childlike hopes in all new compositions, featuring exotic instruments, tribal rhythms, and a fantastic light show.
Cooke's A Child Sleeps sets the musical cradle rocking with variations on a Chinese lullaby graced by the addition of sheng and gucheng, as performed by the composer and Gangqin Zhao. Crossman ups the ante in Plasticity by scoring for a unique instrument -- the Sonoglyph, an invention of featured soloist Tom Nunn.
Not to be outdone in the otherworldly capacity, Jones hallucinates worlds of music in Eagle Bear Woman and Two Islands, in respective homages to Native American and Indonesian traditions.
While the nightmare of a natural world gone awry is captured in Scola Prosek's Voodoo Storm, Wold and Fognozzle's In the Stomach of Fleas takes its malaise from outbreaks of bubonic before and after the great San Francisco Earthquake. Also earthshattering will be Freihofner's monumental Obelisk, Verotta's enigmatic Verso L'immagine Feroce, and Alburger's King David Suite (The Young and the Restless), in three portraits of angst-ridden youth (David, Jonathan, and Absalom).
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TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's "Dreams of the Restless" on Saturday, May 13, 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, and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com.
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CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE:
OLD FIRST CONCERTS PRESENTS
Saturday, May 13, at 8:00 p.m.
Old First Church
1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness
San Francisco, CA
(415) 474-1608
DREAMS OF THE RESTLESS
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Program:
Mark Alburger - King David Suite (The Young and the Restless)
Michael Cooke - A Baby Sleeps
Alan Crossman - Plasticity, for Sonoglyph and Chamber Orchestra
Philip Freihofner - Obelisk
Loren Jones - Eagle Bear Woman and Two Islands
Lisa Scola Prosek - Voodoo Storm
Davide Verotta - Verso L'immagine Feroce
Erling Wold and Fognozzle - In the Stomach of Fleas
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
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SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director
Restless Dreams
Saturday, June 13,
Old First Church, San Francisco
Mark Alburger, John Kendall Baily, and
Martha Stoddard, conducting
Philip Freihofner - Obelisk
Lisa Scola Prosek - Voodoo Storm
Davide Verotta - Verso L’immagine Feroce
(Toward the Ferocious Image)
Allan Crossman - Plasticity
(Tom Nunn, Sonoglyph)
Loren Jones - Eagle Bear Woman
- Two Islands
Michael Cooke - A Baby Sleeps
(Theme and Variations for Sheng, Guzheng, and Orchestra
Mark Alburger - King David Suite (The Young and the Restless)
I. O for the Wings of a Dove (Psalm 55)
II. Incantation (The Witch of Endor)
III. Song in the Forest of Ephraim (The Death of Absalom)
Erling Wold and fognozzle
- In the Stomach of Fleas
