Emigres & Exiles in Hollywood: The Album

E4TT celebrates our fifth recording, "Emigres & Exiles in Hollywood," with favorites from our exploration of rarely heard chamber works and movie arrangements by composers who fled persecution in the 1930s and ‘40s, going on to be instrumental in creating today's "Hollywood" sound.
ALSO: the complete Cabaret Songs by Arnold Schoenberg.

Co-presented by KlezCalifornia

Expression: Ism

World Premieres of a new chamber arrangement by Berg’s early masterpiece, Sieben Frühe Lieder by TJ Martin and two commissioned trios, by E4TT co-founder David Garner and Valerie Liu, plus
Music by Arnold Schoenberg, Webern, and Adam Schoenberg (b. 1980)

AND The winner in the SFCM TAC Department student composition competition.

The program will include visuals from by Arnold Schoenberg, Expressionist painters, Stephanie M. Neumann, and real-time processing.

E4TT emerita pianist Dale Tsang with guests Elizabeth Clark Hall, vibraphone; Bryana Marrero, soprano; Laura Reynolds, English horn; Lylia Guion, violin; Amy Brodo, cello; and Taylor Chan, piano.

Quest: Music by Women and Nonbinary Composers

Featuring: the World Premiere of Spent by Tamara MacLeod (b. 1999)
Works from E4TT’s 2023 Call for Scores with Luna Composition Lab alums,
Music by Jennifer Higdon, Tania León, Jessica Mao, Claudia Montero, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Florence Price, Gabriella Smith, Alex Temple.

There will be a pre-concert composer talk at 7:00 p.m.
Performed by E4TT with guest violinist Jennifer Redondas.

Transformations

Crystal: 15th Anniversary Celebration

Fractured Light

Call for Scores: Solo Piano

Mosaic: Music by Women and Non-binary Composers

Celestrios

SF Music Day

POLISH EMIGRES & EXILES IN HOLLYWOOD
at the Krakow Culture Festival*

DARK UNIVERSE/ MYSTERIOUS SPACES*

Saturday, April 9, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
IN-PERSON at the Cha Chi Ming Recital Hall, Bowes Center, SF Conservatory of Music, SF and also live-streamed (both free)
Online viewing link PROGRAM NOTES

In-person pre-concert composer talk at 7:00 p.m.

BELOW THE SURFACE: MUSIC BY WOMEN COMPOSERS*

Hybrid pre-concert composer talk on Zoom at 7:00 p.m.

SOLO PIANO RECITAL WITH GUEST PIANIST TIN YI CHELSEA WONG*

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Special guest pianist Tin Yi Chelsea Wong performs a musical conversation between composers of the Old and New Worlds

ALCHEMY*

Hybrid pre-concert composer talk at 7:30 p.m. with Bianco, Norris, and Stokes.

Guest coloratura soprano Chelsea Hollow will join E4TT's Monroe and Halbig

Featuring the he World Premiere of two commissions, "The Unseen," to poetry by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) by emerging composer Brennan Stokes (b. 1990) and “Cello Solo for Abby,” by Mary Bianco (b. 1939) along with the World Premiere of "Etudinal Caprice" by Darian Donavan Thomas. Plus musical transformations by Chicago Philharmonic Composer-in-Residence, E4TT’s #MeetTheArtist in August, Marcus Norris (b. 1991), 2004 Guggenheim Fellow, Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz (b. 1964), 1996 American Academy of Arts & Letters Charles Ives composer, Argentinean-born Pablo Ortiz (b. 1956), and works by 20th century Black composers Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson" (1932-2004), 1954 and 1956 Guggenheim Fellow Julia Perry, (1924-1979) and 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner (the first to a Black composer) George Walker (1922-2018).

*This concert is sponsored, in part, by a grant from The Ross McKee Foundation and the Dennis Schuman Charitable Foundation.

THE CASSANDRA PROJECT: Women's Prophetic Voices^

Saturday, April 17, 2021, 7:30 p.m.
Live-streamed by the Center for New Music, SF
Program notes

Virtual transcontinental pre-concert panel and Q&A from 6:30-7:30 p.m. via Zoom with Lash, Liu, Rudman, Kouyoumdjian, Garner and Leonard. Post-concert Zoom Meet & Greet with the Artists

^"The Cassandra Project: Women's Prophetic Voices" is supported by funds from the San Francisco Arts Commission and is sponsored, in part, by a grant from the Alice M. Ditson Foundation and the Ross MMcKee Foundation.

RHAPSODY: MUSIC BY WOMEN COMPOSERS*

Virtual pre-concert composer talk at 7:30 p.m. with Elinor Armer and a video introduction by Jessie Montgomery

*This concert is sponsored, in part, by a grant from The Ross McKee Foundation.

OLD BECOMES NEW

Virtual transcontinental interactive pre-concert composer talk at 7:30 p.m. with Warshaw and Bianco (also at O1C's website).

McGuinness, Lerner and season guest pianist Halbig, with guest composer and pianist Dalit Warshaw, playing her own work from NYC.

Featuring two World Premieres of music by CA composer Mary Bianco; The California premiere of "Through the Guarded Gate" (2018), by 1989 Guggenheim Fellow and E4TT Call for Scores composer Juliana Hall a song cycle to poetry by Margaret Widdemer; "Winter Dream" by 2016 Guggenheim Fellow Dalit Warshaw. (Postponed from June 2020 due to COVID-19).

Plus music by 2020 Guggenheim Fellow Marti Epstein; John Musto; the Bay Area's Alden Jenks and E4TT co-founder David Garner; Russian-American composer Grigory Smirnov; SF Symphony's new Music Director, Esa-Pekka Salonen; renowned and much-loved 2005 Pulitzer Prize composer Steven Stucky (1949-2016); Academy-award-winning Chinese composer Tan Dun; and Argentinean Guggenheim Fellow and UC Davis professor Pablo Ortiz.

OLD FIRST CONCERTS 50TH ANNIVERSARY VIRTUAL GALA

Friday, June 26, 2020, 6:00 p.m. PST

Dreams of Distant Galas: CD Release Party
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Music from the new release by David Garner and Jared Redmond, from E4TT's first Call for Scores and more. Interviews with Aleksandra Vrebalov, Vivian Fung, Chelsea Hollow, and David Garner.
Live stream ONLINE on YouTube Live and Facebook Live
Live chat

Plus works by 9 more women composers:
Pulitzer-Prize (first in music to a woman) Ellen Taaffe Zwilich; American Academy of Arts and Letters’s Walter Hinrichsen Award and Miriam Gideon Prize recipient Victoria Bond; American Academy of Arts and Letters Chinese-American Chen Yi; Opera America Discovery Grant recipient Lori Laitman; Kronos Fifty for the Future Aleksandra Vrebalov; Connecticut Artist Fellow Jessica Rudman; theatre composer Ellen Mandel; 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, Canadian composer Vivian Fung; and Audrey Call.

E4TT with guest violinist Ilana Blumberg

Sunday, March 8, 2020, 7:00 p.m., San Francisco

Mothers & Daughters
Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez St., San Francisco
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*"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.

Saturday, January 25, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Blooming Flowers: Music by Women Composers
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor St., San Francisco
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Plus works by 9 more women composers:
Pulitzer-Prize (first in music to a woman) Ellen Taaffe Zwilich; American Academy of Arts and Letters’s Walter Hinrichsen Award and Miriam Gideon Prize recipient Victoria Bond; American Academy of Arts and Letters Chinese-American Chen Yi; Opera America Discovery Grant recipient Lori Laitman; Kronos Fifty for the Future Aleksandra Vrebalov; Connecticut Artist Fellow Jessica Rudman; theatre composer Ellen Mandel; 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, Canadian composer Vivian Fung; and Audrey Call.

E4TT with guest violinist Ilana Blumberg

Admission: $15/$10 Tickets and information

Thursday, October 31, 7 p.m., Paso Robles
No-host buffet dinner at 5:30 p.m. and a no-host wine recption at 6:30 p.m.

Paderewski Festival, Cass Winery, 7550 Linne Rd, Paso Robles
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Saturday, October 12, 2019, 7:30 p.m., Berkeley

Admission $30/$15/$5 Tickets and information

Sunday, October 6, 2019, 2:30 p.m., San Francisco

"Elegy for David Raksin"" by David Garner, "Duo" by Lennie Moore, music by Alexandre Tansman, other selections from E4TT's "Dracula Rising: Ghosts from Hollywood Past"

McGuinness and Lerner-Wright with guest pianist Karen Rosenak

Admission free

Friday, September 13, 2019, 7:30, San Rafael

A solo cello recital performed by E4TT cellist Anne Lerner-Wright, with the Final three Call for Scores works by Syrian-American Kareem Roustom, Oregonian Greg Steinke, and Brazilian Andersen Viana, plus music by David Garner and J.S. Bach

Lerner-Wright

Admission free: Reserve seats

Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 12 p.m. Mill Valley

Music for Spain (from The "Guernica" Project)
Throckmorton Concerts, 142 Throckmorton, Mill Valley

Selections from E4TT's exciting call-and-response 2017 "Guernica" Project, featuring works by Spanish and American Call for Scores composers Mercedes Zavala, Mario Carro, and Jeffrey Hoover, as well as by E4TT's award-winning composer, David Garner PLUS selected songs from "Siete canciones populares espanoles" by Manuel de Falla (1876-1946).

McGuinness, Lerner-Wright, and Tsang

Admission: FREE

Saturday, April 6, 2019, 7:30 p.m., San Francisco

Garner and Brzytwa will speak, with a special surprise guest appearance.

McGuinness, Lerner-Wright, and Tsang

Admission FREE: Reservations and information

Saturday, January 26, 2019, 7:30 p.m.

7 by women composers:

4 award-winning, established composers Missy Mazzoli, Elena Ruehr, Laura Schwendinger, and Sarah Kirkland Snider;

3 more from E4TT's Call for Call for Scores composers Jerry Casey, Melanie Mitrano, and Loretta Notareschi;

McGuinness and Lerner-Wright with guests soprano Chelsea Hollow, violist Julie Michael, and pianist Taylor Chan

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Emigres & Exiles in Hollywood on Tour

Saturday, November 17, 4 p.m.
Lecture-Recital at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
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Sunday, November 18, 2 p.m.
Concert and panel discussion at UCLA Hillel, Los Angeles, CA
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Friday, October 19, 2018, 7:00 p.m., San Francisco

Korngold, Previn, Tansman, Toch, and Schoenberg.

McGuinness and Lerner-Wright with guest pianist Xin Zhao

Admission: $20. Space is limited. RSVP/ purchase tickets.

McGuinness, Lerner-Wright and guest pianist Xin Zaho

Saturday, October 20, 2018, 7:30 p.m.

McGuinness, Lerner-Wright, and guest pianist, Xin Zhao

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Sunday, September 30, 2018, Time 6:50-7:20 p.m., San Francisco

"Die eichne Tuer" by David Garner and a mazurka by Alexandre Tansman
McGuinness and Lerner-Wright with guests Laura Reynolds, English horn Ilana Blumberg, violin, and Xin Zhao, piano

Admission free

Friday, June 29, 2018 8:00 p.m.

56x54: Focus on the Cello: a concert of Call for Scores works with cello

World Premieres:by Lawrence Kramer, David Luna, Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz and R. Michael Daugherty
U.S. Premieres by Frederick Schipizky(Canada), and George Hatzimichelakis(Greece) West Coast Premiere by Gene Pritsker Also Call for Scores music by Tom Flaherty.
Plus: "Capriccio for Cello" by E4TT's own David Garner and "Fig" by SF composer JJ Hollingsworth.

Pre-concert composer talk at 7:30 with Lawrence Kramer and Frederick Schipizky.

Old First Concerts, 1751 Sacramento St., San Francisco

Tickets ($5-23) and information: 415-474-1608 or Old First Concerts

This concert is supported in part by the Ross McKee Foundation.

Sunday, April 15, 2018, 4:00 p.m., San Francisco
Subscription Concert #4

Once/Memory/Night: Paul Celan

Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez St., San Francsico

Admission: $30/$15/$5 Tickets and information or 510-646-7000

Once/Memory/Night: Paul Celan is supported in part by grants from InterMusic SF's MGP program, the Zellerbach Family Foundation and the Ross McKee Foundation.

Saturday, February 24, 2018, 3:00 p.m. Berkeley
Subscription Concert #3

A Special Solo Recital with E4TT Pianist Dale Tsang

Dale Tsang, piano

Berkeley Piano Club, 2724 Haste St., Berkeley

Admission: $30/$20 or $20/10 with a season subscription.
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This concert is supported in part by a grant from the Ross McKee Foundation.

Sunday, February 4, 2018, 4:00 p.m. San Francisco
Subscription Concert #2

56x54+Gorecki: strings & things

Pre-concert composer talk with Weiwei Miao

With guests violinist Ilana Blumberg Thomas and violist Julie Michael

St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 1111 O'Farrell St.

Admission: $30/$20 or $20/10 with a season subscription.
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Some free parking is available in the church parking lot directly in front of the building off Gough, just south of the intersection with O'Farrell.

This concert is supported in part by a grant from the Ross McKee Foundation.

Sunday, November 19, 2017, 4:00 p.m. Berkeley
Subscription Concert #1

56x54+Armer+Garner: ...the beat goes on

Berkeley Piano Club, 2724 Haste St., Berkeley

Admission: $30/$20 or $20/10 with a season subscription.
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This concert is supported in part by a grant from the Ross McKee Foundation.

Free lunchtime preview of program selections at Cafe Europa, JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut St., Berkeley, on November 17, 2017 at 12:30 p.m.

October 16-21, 2017

The "Guernica" Project on Tour in Madrid

October 17, 12-1:30 p.m.: Open Rehearsal, Conservatorio Teresa Berganza
October 18, 7:00 p.m.: Concert American Space Madrid, Calle Miguel Ángel 8, FREE
October 19, 7:30 p.m.: Concert, Conservatorio Teresa Berganza, Calle del Palmípedo 3, FREE
With guest violinist Alejandro Saiz Emeterio
October 20, Conservatorio Teresa Berganza, Masterclass

Sunday, September 24, 2017, Time TBD, San Francisco

With guest violinist Ilana Blumberg Thomas

Admission free

Sunday, June 11, 2017, 3:00 p.m. Los Altos

The Jewish Music & Poetry Project

Works by Derek Bermel, Erich Korngold Kurt Weill, David Garner, Gyorgy Justus, Lajos Delej, Sandor Vandor, and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

McGuinness, Tsang, and cellist Anne Lerner-Wright

Information: 650 493-5661

Sunday, June 4, 2017, 4:00 p.m., San Francisco

56x54 Redux: The Second Call For Scores Concert

One World Premiere: by Justin Henry Rubin
Four U.S. Premieres:Eden Lonsdale, Daniel Mehdizadeh, Alexander Skripko, and Martyna Kosecka's "Nepheles,"commissioned & premiered by E4TT in Krakow in 2016
Three West Coast Premieres: Molly Joyce, Stephen Mitton and Christopher Wicks
Works by Grace Xu Schott, and San Francisco composer Alden Jenks

Pre-concert composer talk at 3:30 by composers Alden Jenks, Grace Xu Schott and Christopher Wicks.

McGuinness, Tsang, and cellist Anne Lerner-Wright

Tickets ($5-23): 415-474-1608 or Old First Concerts

Saturday, April 8, 2017, 7:30 p.m. San Francisco

Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez, San Francisco

The "Guernica" Project

WORLD PREMIERE of an exciting new call-and-response commission by E4TT 2016 Call for Score composer Jeffrey Hoover, “Guernica,” along with 2016 Call for Scores works by Spanish composers Mario Carro and Mercedes Zavala,as well as a second work by Hoover ("Burning Giraffe"), plus “Death with Interruptions,” by Grammy-nominated composer Derek Bermel and "Albeniz" (from "Cinq Hommages") by E4TT's award-winning composer, David Garner, with images provided by the Museo de la Paz de Gernika and traditional Basque dance by the Zazpiak Bat Dance Group .

This concert is supported in part by a grant from the the Ross McKee Foundation

Guest violinist Dawn Harms, McGuinness, Tsang, and cellist Anne Lerner-Wright

Admission $25/$15 in advance; $30/$20 at the door

Downloadable Guernica Poster

Information and tickets

Maybeck Studio, 1537 Euclid Ave., Berkeley

The "Guernica" Project: Preview

PREVIEW of an exciting new call-and-response commission by E4TT 2016 Call for Scores composer Jeffrey Hoover, “Guernica,” along with 2016 Call for Scores works by spanish composers Mario Carro and Mercedes Zavala as well as a second work by Hoover ("Burning Giraffe"), plus “Death with Interruptions,” by Grammy-nominated composer Derek Bermel.

This concert is supported in part by a grant from the the Ross McKee Foundation

Guest violinist Dawn Harms, McGuinness, Tsang, and cellist Anne Lerner-Wright

Suggested donation $20

Downloadable Guernica Poster

Information and Tickets

Friday, January 27, 2017, 6:00-7:30 p.m. San Francisco

Presidio Officer's Club, 50 Moraga Ave., San Francisco

Presidio Sessions

Selections from E4TT’s 2016 award-winning CD “Surviving: Women’s Words,” submitted for the 59th Grammy Awards, new arrangements from Franz Waxman's "The Song of Terezin," and works by Holocaust-era composers Erich Korngold, Lajos Delej, Hans Winterberg, Sandor Vandor, Gyorgy Justus, Edwin Geist, and Henriette Bosmans

McGuinness, Tsang, and cellist Anne Lerner-Wright

Admission Free. Reservations recommended