World premieres of three commissions focusing on relationships between mothers & daughters, plus three relevant instrumental works:
"Matrix" for soprano and piano by Bay Area favorite Elinor Armer(b. 1939), set to poems by two other Bay Area icons, Ursula Le Guin (1929-2018) and Rella Lossy (1944-1996). Listen to Armer's "Will You Won't You":
"The Light Within the Dark" for soprano, English horn, violin, cello, and piano, by E4TT composer and co-founder David Garner (b. 1954), to poems from Gripe Water by Gini Savage (1944-2018) and Rhina Espaillat (b. 1932). Watch E4TT perform the world premiere of Garner's "Die eichne Tuer" to poems by Paul Celan:
"Mother Love" for soprano, violin, and piano to poems about Persephone and Demeter by Pulitzer-winning, U.S. Poet Laureate, Rita Dove by emerging composer and recent SF Conservatory of Music graduate Brennan Stokes (b. 1990). Listen to his Canciones del Paraiso:
PLUS "Rest These Hands" (2014) for solo violin by exciting Grammy-winning composer, based on a poem by her mother "Anna Clyne (b. 1980). Listen to it here:
"Mother and Child" (1942, arr. for cello and piano) by African-American composer William Grant Still (1895-1978). Listen to an arrangement for violin and piano:
Ji-Dong-Nuo (2007) for piano by American Academy of Arts and Letters Chinese-American Chen Yi (b. 1953). Watch it here:
Espenbaum from Die eichne Tuer for soprano, English horn, violin, cello, and piano by by E4TT composer and co-founder David Garner (b. 1954), from our upcoming 2020 release of "Once/Memory/Night: Paul Celan." Watch the world premiere of it here:
Pre-concert composer talk.
Preview, Thursday, March 5, TBD
*"Mothers & Daughters" is made possible with funds from the Musical Grant Program, which is administered by InterMusic SF and supported by the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and San Francisco Grants for the Arts and also by a grant from the Zellerbach Family Foundation.
