We are excited about our 2016-17 season lineup. Season tickets are on sale now.
1. A Close Correspondence
Onur Türkmen
New Work for String Quartet and Chorus WORLD PREMIERE
Leoš Janáček
String Quartet #2 “Intimate Letters”
David Lang
A Father’s Love for Chorus
Mark Winges
Letters for String Quartet and Chorus WORLD PREMIERE
Itʼs a natural alliance: Volti (SFʼs premiere new music chorus) joins forces with Left Coast for a concert about correspondence. Weʼll hear Janáčekʼs "Intimate Letters" quartet and moving music by David Lang based on a soldierʼs goodbye letter. Together our ensembles present world premieres featuring letters of Janáček, Goethe, Virginia Woolf, and others.
2. Brilliant Palette
Ernest Chausson
Chanson Perpétuelle, Op. 37 for Soprano, String Quartet, and Piano
Caroline Shaw
Boris Kerner for Cello, and Percussion
George Crumb
Madrigals I for Soprano, Vibraphone, and Contrabass
Martin Matalon
Short Stories for Vibraphone
Gabriel Fauré
La Bonne Chanson, Op. 61, for Soprano, String Quintet, and Piano
Percussionist Loren Mach and soprano Nikki Einfeld have joined Left Coast! We celebrate the array of musical resources they bring to the ensemble with lush vocal music of Fauré and Chausson, the meditative Boris Kerner for cello and flower pots, by Caroline Shaw, and other music for percussion and voice.
3. House of the Beehives
David Coll
Ghost Dances WORLD PREMIERE
Dusan Bogdanovic
Canticles for Two Guitars
Maurice Ravel
Sonata for Violin and Cello
Melody Eötvös
House of the Beehives
Sebastian Currier
Broken Consort for Flute, Oboe, Violin, Cello, 2 Guitars
Melody Eötvösʼ vibrant House of the Beehives, inspired by the Italo Calvino story of the same name, is the winner of our 2016 Composition Contest. We present it alongside duos by Ravel, Bogdanovic, and David Coll, with Sebastian Currierʼs sextet, Broken Consorts; his music was heralded as "lyrical, colorful, firmly rooted in tradition, but absolutely new" by The Washington Post.
4. Brahms Through the Looking Glass
New Works, to be announced
Kenneth Lim
New Work for Piano Trio
Johannes Brahms
Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8
Brahmsʼ B Major Trio, written when he was a young man and revised in his later years, is the inspiration for a new piano trio by Kenneth Lim. A new heir to the classical music tradition give us fresh perspective on an old masterpiece.
5. Francophilia
Claude Debussy
Chansons de Bilitis
Aaron Copland
selections from Songs of Emily Dickinson
Kurt Rohde
Power is Everywhere for Soprano, Flute, Cello and Piano with texts by Michel Foucault WORLD PREMIERE
Maurice Ravel
Chansons madécasses
with other works for voice, flute, cello and piano by Henri Dutilleux, Ned Rorem and André Caplet
In this program of music for soprano, flute, cello and piano, listen and consider the question: “What defines the French sound?”
According to American composer Ned Rorem, “..the solar system is torn between two aesthetics: French and German...Blue is French. Red is German. Yes is French. No is German.” Rorem believed he and Aaron Copland belonged in the French category.
