April 29 - Chance Encounters


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.