June 17 - SF Cabaret Opera - Fresh Voices X

SEASON X
Fresh Voices X Festival of New Works

Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera celebrates its 10th Annual Fresh Voices Festival of New Works 2010 with four evenings of real-life stories of loneliness and alienation, the spirit of adventure and the will to survive (America) and dark re-creations of old tales with new twists (Europe and Beyond).

Ten fully-staged short operas will Xplore: an erotic transformation in Hungary; starving artists in a sideshow in Czechoslovakia; a pioneer woman in Nebraska driven mad by loneliness; an Xpresident disintegrating in America. And more!

X at the Heart of America
Stories of loneliness and alienation, the spirit of adventure and the will to survive.

X in the Soul of Europe and Beyond
Dark re-creations of old tales with new twists.

Featuring Hadley McCarroll and Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano

Live Oak Theatre, 1301 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley


Program A 
8pm, Thursday, June 17
8pm, Saturday, June 19

Featuring World and Bay Area premieres of new operas and songs

X at the Heart of America / X in the Soul of Europe and Beyond

Edward Knight - Life is Fine (Langston Hughes)

Raina Simons, Soprano

Chris Wittaker - George Bush: The Last Hundred Days

Meghan Dibble
Chelsea Hollow
Nathaniel Marken

Daniel Felsenfeld - The Bloody Chamber 
(Elizabeth Isadora Gold, after the novella by Angela Carter)

Indre Viskontas
Jo Vincent Parks
Nanette McGuinness

Mark Alburger - Job: A Masque (after The Book of Job)

Nanette McGuinness, God / Bildad the Shuhite
Crystal Philippi, Satan / Zophar the Naamathite
Marilyn Pratt, Job
Kate Bautch, Job's Wife
Sarita Cannon, Eliaphaz the Temanite
Heather Lauren Klein, Elihu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L31Zfc3FJBA&feature=channel_video_title

John G. Bilotta - Trifles (John F. McGrew)

Michael Desnoyers
Alexandra Jerinic
Nathan Kondrat
Nathaniel Marken
Maria Mikheyenko


Program B
8pm, Friday, June 18
7pm, Sunday, June 20

X at the Heart of America / X in the Soul of Europe and Beyond

Alden Jenks - Letter from Linda (Frank Polite)

Indre Viskontas
Sarita Cannon

Robert Denham - Sutter Creek

Wayne Wong
Kate Bautch
Sarita Cannon
Heather Lauren Klein

David Garner - Medea Alone

Kristen Brown

Mark Narins - Theresa Kren

Katherine Howell
Tristan Robben

Jeff Myers - The Hunger Art (Royce Vavrek)

Joshua Beld
Meghan Dibble
Justin Marsh
Eliza O’Malley
Sophia Santulli


Tickets

Advance tickets sales: $20 general admission/$15 seniors/students/TBA
Tickets at door: $25 general admission/$20 seniors/students
Reserve your tickets online or by calling 415-289-6877 or email


“Living up to its name, the Fresh Voices Festival presented a truly amazing selection of new works by San Francisco Bay Area composers and librettists.... Not only is the concept great but so is the quality of musicianship in both the vocal and ensemble performance. Artistic director Harriet March Page and musical director Mark Alburger, tireless champions of new music, demonstrated an energy and vision that was truly astounding. . . .Goat Hall Productions with its innovative programs is proving to be an essential part of the music scene of San Francisco.” -- William Susman, 20th-Century Music

“. . . .I hope that such enjoyable musical theater will eventually find its way even further throughout the region. I’m sure I speak for all the audience when I say I didn’t want it to end!” -- Allan Crossman

June 11 - SFCCO Silence of the Wolves

SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 10, 2010

CONTACT:
SFCCO (707) 474-7273
mus21stc@gmail.com

SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PRESENTS
"SILENCE OF THE WOLVES"
8:00PM, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, OLD FIRST CHURCH,
1725 SACRAMENTO STREET (AT VAN NESS), SAN FRANCISCO, CA

OLD FIRST, SAN FRANCISCO, AND WORLD PREMIERES OF WORKS BY
JOHN BEEMAN, CINDY COLLINS, LOREN JONES, DARIUS MILHAUD,
LISA SCOLA PROSEK, MARTHA STODDARD, AND DAVIDE VEROTTA

SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, 2010 -- Listen carefully. The slightest sound may be of the greatest import. That wolf howling in the distance, just at the edge of consciousness, may change your life. For the better. At least, we sure hope so, as San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra presents Silence of the Wolves -- an evening celebration of sounds great and small, at Old First Church on June 11, 2010, in music of John Beeman, Cindy Collins, Loren Jones, Darius Milhaud, Lisa Scola Prosek, Martha Stoddard, and Davide Verotta.

Verotta's An Enticement of Silence and Jones's Wolf Wood manifest the head and tail of the concert in musics gentle and disturbing -- sentiments also mirrored in Beeman's Bernsteinianly-appelated Fancy Free. Scola Prosek provides the requisite bark and bite in three selections from the opera Ten Days (Dieci Giorni, after The Decameron of Boccaccio) with songs tragic, romantic, and comic. Rounding out the pack are the colorful Collins Synesthesia (directed by Mark Alburger) and the wolf-whistle Cowgirl Rondo of Stoddard (conducted by the composer), with a special howl-out going for the revival of Les Six / Mills College associate Milhaud's Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1-3, led by John Kendall Bailey.

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TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's "Silence of the Wolves" -- on Friday, June 11, 8:00 p.m., at 1725 Sacramento Street (@ Van Ness), San Francisco, are $17 general, $14 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 (707) 474-7273, 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
Friday, June 11, at 8:00 p.m. Old First Church
1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness
San Francisco, CA
(415) 474-1608


SILENCE OF THE WOLVES
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra,

Program:

John Beeman - Fancy Free
Cindy Collins - Synesthesia
Loren Jones - Wolf Wood
Darius Milhaud - Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1-3
Lisa Scola Prosek - Three Songs from 10 Days
Martha Stoddard - Cowgirl Rondo
Davide Verotta - An Enticement of Silence

Tickets: $17 general, $14 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