Saturday, April 17, 2021, 7:30 p.m. The Cassandra Project
Free live-stream from the Center for New Music's YouTube channel (donations welcome) RSVP to get the program notes in advance
Join us on Zoom for a virtual pre-concert panel + Q&A (via chat) at 6:30-7:30 p.m. with Lash, Liu, Rudman, Lash, Kouyoumdjian, Garner & Leonard and then
follow us over to YouTube for the concert at 7:30 p.m..
E4TT¡¯s 2020/21 commissions concert, inspired by the notorious priestess in Greek mythology who was cursed to utter true prophecies, but never to be believed. Featuring World Premieres of four commissions plus three relevant works about Cassandra and her fate:
World Premieres:
A new work for piano trio by 2016 Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Fellowship recipient Hannah Lash (b. 1981). Watch her "Music for Loss" for chamber orchestra:
"Cassandra, or Don't Girls Love Horses," a monodrama with projected visuals for soprano, cello, and piano, by E4TT Call for Scores composer Jessica Rudman (b.1982) to a new text by her regular collaborator, librettist Kendra Preston Leonard (b. 1974).
Listen to the first movement of "A Forest That Is Desert" for a cappella chorus:
"Cassandra Effect" for cello and piano by emerging Bay Area composer and 2019 Ruth Crawford Seeger Award winner Valerie Liu (b. 1971) Listen to her chamber work, "Eastern Lines -Midday-":
"Die gefl«ästerte Zukunft," a music video monodrama for soprano and piano trio by E4TT co-founder David Garner (b. 1954), to a text by Friedrich Schiller (1759-1809). Watch the world premiere of his "Die eichne Tuer" (also available on E4TT's latest recording):
PLUS:
"Moerae" for piano trio by Armenian-American composer Mary Kouyoumdjian (b. 1983)
Watch it here:
Performed by McGuinness, season guest pianist Margaret Halbig and guests violinist Ilana Blumberg and cellist Abigail Monroe.
The concert will be available at no cost via livestream on YouTube. We ask that you consider making a donation of whatever feels comfortable.
RSVP to get the program and notes in advance.
This concert is supported by funds from the San Francisco Arts Commission and is sponsored in part sponsored, in part, by a grant from the Ross McKee Foundation and the Alice M. Ditson Foundation.