At 5pm -- after researching and writing a prose piece re the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's 10-th Anniversary Gala for Old First Concerts (and thereby doing much of the rehearsal scheduling and press release work for same as well), plus doing the pdf for Merton Songs 79 and composing The Decameron, page 88, and a fourth system of Psalm 94 -- go to SF Classical Voice to choose a concert this evening for review in Commuter Times and 21st-Century Music (note the chance operation involved), and, appropriately enough, find one that leaps off the computer screen... John Cage Centenary: Music for Percussion.
So,
leap
to
it,
heading
down
the
freeway
in
the
striking
setting
sun,
for
San
Francisco
and
its
Community
Music
Center, taking in a very engaging program, presented by David Kennedy's Sacramento [State University] Percussion Group and Chris Froh's Percussion Group [University of California at] Davis, including
Amores (1943)
II. Trio (9 tom-toms, pod rattle)
III. Trio (7 woodblocks, not Chinese)
Kevin Barr, Andy Davidson, Kevin Sakamoto
Child of Tree (1975)
Jonathan Raman
Living Room Music (1940)
I. To Begin
II. Story
III. Melody
IV. End
Phylicia Morris, Daniel Kennedy, Dannie Stiles, Isaiah Abdul-Raman
Telephones and Birds (1977)
Breanna Hale, Danny Zagunis, Scott McAuliffe
Radio Music (1956)
Serena Carlucci, Breanna Hale, Ian Marci, Scott McAuliffe, Phylicia Morris, Katy Roblyer, Dannie Stiles, Danny Zagunis
She Is Asleep (1943)
I. Quartet for 12 tom-toms
Ian Marci, Scott McAuliffe, Victor Nava, Kevin Sakamoto
Sonata for Two Voices (1933)
The Noyce Duo: Boyce Jeffries, Nick Micheels
Credo in US (1942)
Kevin Barr, Lien Do, Victor Nava, Kevin Sakamoto
-- with the review at http://21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com/2012/04/john-cage-centenary-percussion.html and for Commuter Times and eventually in 21st-Century Music and 21st-centurymusic.com.
