Saturday, December 31, 2011
December 31 - New Music New Year's Bash
Mark Alburger and Harriet March Page
request the honor of your presence
at a year-end concert-party!
(Fresh Voices XI
Festival of New Works)
New
Music
New
Year's
Bash
10pm-12:00midnight
December 31, 2011
Community Music Center
544 Capp Street
San Francisco, CA
A benefit for Goat Hall and SF Composers Orchestra
Nancy Bloomer Deussen's Adirondack Morn;
John Bilotta's Yeats Songs, with Tristan Robben; Philip Freihofner's Where My Breathing Whispers (Diane Frank), with Eliza O'Malley and Kelsey Walsh;
Ji Yoo's performance of Motherless Child;
Kurt Weill's Lonely House (Annemarie Ballinger) and
First Threepenny Finale (Harriet March Page);
Martha Stoddard's Quartet for Two Oboes and Two Bassoons and Duo for Bassoons (with Philip Freihofner, Mark Alburger, and Michael and
Lori Garvey);
Dylan Greengard's Bullfight with Self, The Plight of Josef K., and
The Wrath of Poseidon (the latter in which the composer-guitarist is joined by violinist Asuka Yanai;
Mark Alburger's Business As Usual and
Rozalina Gutman's Music. We wrap up official proceedings at 11:45pm, toasting the coming year with a theme-and-variations playlist of multiple Auld Lange Synes found online including --
Andrew L
Andre Rieu
A Beautiful Lotus
Harry Koizumi
Jack Ingram
Mairi Campbell and Dave Francis
Anne McGinty
Kenny G
Alfred Publications
-- counting down to the witching hour, shouting,
dancing, and singing Christmas Carrels - A: Lang Syne.