[Othermindsforum] June 5-sfSoundSeries: Omaggio a Berio

[Matt J. Ingalls]

sfSoundSeries
         presents

"Omaggio a Berio"

Saturday, June 5, 2004, 8:30pm
   Community Music Center
     544 Capp Street
       San Francisco
         $10 requested donation

http://sfSound.org/series.html
   series at sfSound.org



Over the past year, the sfSoundSeries has been presenting a unique mix
of new music: composed and improvised - acoustic and electronic - new
works from bay area composers and classic works from the european
avant-garde - virtuosic performances and radical reinterpretations.  In
this concluding concert of our first season we combine all of these
aspects into a single event!

Luciano Berio (1925-2003) was one of the extraordinary voices of the
Darmstadt generation. Perhaps the most historically-minded member of
that group, some of his greatest compositions are postmodern collages
and recontextualizations of older works (including Mahler's 2nd
Symphony in "Sinfonia" and Schubert's unfinished Tenth Symphony in
"Rendering").

Drawing inspiration from Berio's own interpretation of music history,
the musicians of the sfSoundGroup have devised a creative, yet
appropriate way to pay homage to the late and great italian master.
Following performances of some of Berio's virtuosic chamber and solo
compositions, the sfSoundGroup presents a new large-scale collaborative
work that recontextualizes Berio's music inside one of his own
theatrical pieces, "Laborintus II".  Reorchestrated, reshaped, reduced,
remixed, repulsed, and recomposed, material from over 25 compositions
has been interwoven with one of Berio's most experimental works [ first
performed at Mills College in 1967 ] to form something both unique and
contemporary.

Please join us!



PROGRAM
"Sequenza I" [ Diane Grubbe solo flute ]
"Sequenza V" [ Toyoji Tomita solo trombone ]
"Sequenza VII" [ Kyle Bruckmann solo oboe ]
"O King" for voice and five players

  [-- intermission --]

"Laborintus III"
   - a collage of music and ideas taken from Berio's oeuvre, including:

"Laborintus II" for voices, instruments, and tape [1965]
"Agnus" for voices and clarinets [1971]
"Autre Fois" for flute, clarinet, and harp [1971]
"Chamber Music" [1954]
"Chemins II" for viola and ensemble [1972]
"Circles" for voice, harp, and two percussionists [1960]
"Coro" for voices and instruments [1976]
"Cries of London" for voices [1973]
"Erdenklavier" for solo piano [1969]
"Epifanie" for voice and orchestra [1965]
"Folk Songs" for chamber ensemble [1968]
"Gesti" for solo recorder [1968]
"Momenti" for tape [1960]
"O King" for voice and five players [1968]
"Opus Number Zoo" for woodwind quintet [1951]
"Passagio" for voices and chamber orchestra [1962]
"Re-call" for chamber orchestra [1995]
"Rendering" for orchestra [1990]
"Serenata No. 1" for flute and 14 instruments [1957]
"Sequenza I" for solo flute [1958]
"Sequenza III" for solo voice [1966]
"Sequenza IV" for solo piano [1966]
"Sequenza V" for solo trombone [1965]
"Sequenza VII"  for solo oboe [1969]
"Sequenza VIIb" for solo saxophone [1969]
"Sinfonia" for eight voices and orchestra [1969]
"Still" for orchestra [1973]
"Thema - Omaggio a Joyce" for tape [1958]
"Violin Duos" [1979-83]
"Visage" for tape [1961]
Selected Writings
  and others!


sfSoundGroup MUSICIANS:

David Bithell - trumpet/conductor/voice
Kyle Bruckmann - oboe/voice
Christopher Burns - electronics/voice
Mark Chung - violin/voice
Florian Conzetti - percussion/voice
Erik Ulman - violin/voice
Diane Grubbe - flute/voice
Karen Hall - soprano/voice
Matt Ingalls - clarinet/voice
John Ingle - saxophone/voice
Christopher Jones - piano/voice
Hadley McCarroll - voice
Toyoji Tomita - trombone/voice


This concert is dedicated to the memory of Matthew Sperry.

This event is supported in part by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura San
Francisco.