Where the Wild Things Are free, savage… and beautiful… Join San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra — as we Bring ‘Em Back Alive to the world of live performance, in celebration of the ensemble’s 20th-anniversary of Bay-Area music-making!
Hussein Al-Nasrawi will treat us to A Day at the California Academy of Sciences, with evocative post-minimalist figurations of sonic intrigue. Then we’ll travel farther afield to Lisa Scola Prosek’s lovely Italianate Bells of Santo Stefano: Soave Luna, graced by peels of vocal splendor from Shauna Fallihee and the composer. By contrast, John Beeman brings us a little closer to home, just north of the California border, in a rough-and-tumble, yet rapturous, Oregonian Rogue River Canyon.
If this is not enough to cause you to Wiggle in your seat, Stardust’s so-appellated work will, with its varied depictions of the joys and perils of modern life from “Cold” to a hot “You Can Do Whatever You Want…” The contemporary and medieval will mingle in Mark Alburger‘s memorial Three George Crumb Tropes, Op. 392 — celebrating the late great composer (October 24, 1929 – February 6, 2022) in music additionally inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio’s racy and rustic Decameron: Fifth Day. And to push the past-is-the-future pronouncement further, Michael Cooke offers his very at-the-moment phantasmagorical spin on Ludwig Van, for a fresh Symphony No. 4 (“Deconstructing Beethoven”).
Sublime and superb, the celebration will be serendipitous with the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra’s Bring ‘Em Back Alive!