SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:
January 18, 2009 SFCCO (707) 451-0714 mus21stc@gmail.com
SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PRESENTS
"FREE-FOR-ALL (BUT FOR YOU, $15)"
8:00PM, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, OLD FIRST CHURCH,
1725 SACRAMENTO STREET (AT VAN NESS), SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO AND WORLD PREMIERES OF 11 WORKS, BY
JOHN BEEMAN, MICHAEL COOKE, PHILIP FREIHOFNER, GARY FRIEDMAN, DAVID GRAVES, LOREN JONES, LISA SCOLA PROSEK, DAVID SPRUNG, CLARE TWOHY, DAVIDE VEROTTA, ERLING WOLD, AND MARK ALBURGER
SAN FRANCISCO, January 18, 2007 -- Hiya friends, Music Director Mark Alburger here, with the largest set of new and pre-owned new-music premieres from the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, here at Old First Church (1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness) at 8pm on February 28.
Let's just take a look at the extras of this beautiful new program by composers John Beeman, Michael Cooke, Philip Freihofner, Gary Friedman, David Graves, Loren Jones, Lisa Scola Prosek, David Sprung, Clare Twohy, Davide Verotta, Erling Wold, and Mark Alburger.
In String Theory, Cooke cooks up a drive-in pasta house of quantum mechanics and general relativity, featuring graphical notation and improvisation for the entire 23-piece ensemble. In similarity and contrast, Freihofner's What Are You Going to Dream Tonight is a compact dream-deal of free writing for mixed quartet of oboe, clarinet, electric keyboard, and viola. Continuing in the economical use of forces is the Wind Sextet of Friedman, and John Beeman's Adago, after which David Graves and Clare Twohy team up for a fire sale in the collaborative Fireproof Winds.
In another joint-deal Scola Prosek presents a Serenade for Trumpet, based on a melody by her soloist son Eduard and the drive-in movie side of film noir. Jones takes up related cinematic connections by taking on all customers in February's Children, with added options of electric guitar and bass, harp, synthesizer, and three percussionists.
Sprung's sprung Serendipities is an ambitious deluxe package for double-dealing large ensemble, followed by the add-on, hallucinogenic Yanitl, from wheeler-dealer Verotta. And to sew up the deal, we take to the back seat (although taking a back seat to none) in Wold's bawdy-improper Two Waltzes for Lynne and Alburger's deliciously inappropriate Sex and the Orchestra.
It's a beautiful program, friends, with chords to match. Free-for-All (But for You, $15)!
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TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's "Free-for-all (but for you, $15)" on February 28, 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, February 28, at 8:00 p.m. Old First Church
1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness
San Francisco, CA
(415) 474-1608
FREE-FOR-ALL (BUT FOR YOU, $15)
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Program:
Mark Alburger Sex and the Orchestra
John Beeman Adagio
Michael Cooke String Theory
Philip Freihofner What Are You Going to Dream Tonight?
Gary Friedman Romance for Wind Sextet
David Graves / Clare Twohy Fireproof Winds
Loren Jones February's Children
Lisa Scola Prosek Serenade for Trumpet
David Sprung Serendipities
Davide Verotta Yanitl
Erling Wold Two Orchestral Waltzes for Lynne
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
Free-for-All (But for You, $15)
8pm, Saturday, February 28, Old First Church, San Francisco, CA
Mark Alburger, David Sprung, Martha Stoddard, and Erling Wold, conducting
Program
Phil Freihofner - What Are You Going to Dream Tonight
Davide Verotta - Yanitl
John Beeman - Adagio
Gary Friedman - Romance for Wind Sextet
Lisa Scola Prosek - Serenade for Trumpet
David Sprung - Serendipities
Intermission
Erling Wold - Two Orchestral Waltzes for Lynne
I. Ludmilla Waltz
II. Empress Waltz
Mark Alburger - Sex and the Orchestra, Op. 171
I. Happy Funeral Music (The Little Death)
II. Downfall (Detumescence)
Michael Cooke - String Theory
David Graves / Clare Twohy - Fireproof Winds
Loren Jones - February's Children
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Rehearsal pictures may be found at
markalburger2009.blogspot.com
dated February 19, 22, 26, and 27.
