"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
A multimedia dialogue between music by the Second Viennese School triumvirate of Berg, Schoenberg and Webern and new music inspired by their groundbreaking work. In collaboration with the SF Conservatory of Music Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) Department. Featuring images by Arnold Schoenberg and Expressionist painters.
A NEW COMMISSIONED CHAMBER ARRANGEMENT
Of Alban Berg's major song cycle, Sieben Fruehe Lieder (1905-1908), for soprano, English horn, cello, and vibraphone, by percussionist/composer TJ Martin:
TWO 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:
Mystic Trio 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:
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Drei Klavierstuecke, Op. 11, #1 and 3 (1909) for piano by Arnold Schoenberg:
Sonatensatz (Rondo) fuer Klavier (Sonata Movement (Rondo) for Piano, 1906) by Anton Webern:
Picture Etudes: "Olive Orchard" for piano by Adam Schoenberg (b. 1980):
Britney Do, "unmuted," the winner of the E4TT/TAC multimedia student composition competition.
E4TT emerita pianist Dale Tsang will be joined by guest artists vibraphonist Elizabeth Clark Hall, soprano Bryana Marrero, English hornist Laura Reynolds, violinist Lylia Guion, cellist Amy Brodo, and pianist Taylor Chan.
Join E4TT members post-concert at The Madrigal, SF (in-person attendees).
"Expression: Ism" is made possible through the Musical Grant Program, which is administered by InterMusic SF, and supported by the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, and the Hewlett Foundation.
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.
