The BluePrint Festival is the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's ongoing 20th century/ new music series, and it takes advantage of the Conservatory students' technical prowess and their fearlessness in approaching unusual music.
This season Music Director Nicole Paiement organizes several concerts for mixed forces, including artists from other disciplines.
The opener, on October 10, features Darius Milhaud's fierce denunciation of fascism, La mort d'un tyran (The Death of a Tyrant) for a chamber ensemble and a chorus which resorts to shouting in places. Local composers share the billing with Milhaud, who, of course, had his own local connections.