"Expression: Ism" Friday, April 5, 2024, 7:30 p.m. Barbro Osher Recital Hall, Bowes Center, SF Conservatory of Music, 200 Van Ness, SF and livestreamed on SFCM's Vimeo channel
FREE RSVP (link to come) recommended.
Pre-concert composer talk at 7:00 p.m.
A multimedia dialogue between music by two of Arnold Schoenberg's students--Second Viennese School composers Alban Berg and Anton Webern--and three new works inspired by their groundbreaking work. In collaboration with the SF Conservatory of Music Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) Department. Featuring images by Schoenberg.
A NEW CHAMBER ARRANGEMENT
Of Alban Berg's major early 12-tone cycle, Sieben Fruehe Lieder (1905-1908), for soprano, English horn, cello, and vibraphone, by percussionist/composer TJ Martin:
THREE COMMISSIONED WORLD PREMIERES
Piano Trio No.2 by E4TT co-founder and Senior Artistic Advisor David Garner using tonal serialism (a technique he developed in direct reference to Schoenberg's atonal serialism). Listen to his Piano Trio No. 1:
trio (title tbd) for English horn, cello, and piano by The American Prize Honorable Mention winner, Valerie Liu. Listen to E4TT perform her "Cassandra Effect" for cello and piano:
ubi lux floret by Darian Donovan Thomas (b. 1989), for piano trio. Listen to his "Fluid" for violin and electronics:
PLUS
Sonatensatz (Rondo) fuer Klavier (Sonata Movement (Rondo) for Piano, 1906) by Anton Webern:
AND
the winner of the TAC Department multimedia student composition competition.
E4TT's McGuinness will be joined by guest artists vibraphonist Adrienne Anaya, violinist Jennifer Redondas, cellist Megan Chartier, and pianists Taylor Chan and Dale Tsang.
Join E4TT members post-concert at The Madrigal, SF (in-person attendees).
E4TT's 2023/24 season is sponsored, in part, by grants from the Ross McKee Foundation and SF Grants for the Arts. E4TT's UPLIFT project, For Good Measure podcast, and 2023/24 season are supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov.
