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SF Intl. Arts Festival: Earplay 26: Sound Lines
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SFIAF's longest presenting partners, The Earplay Ensemble will present an international program featuring the work of Hector Parra of Spain, Olga Neuwirth from Austria, and Mauricio Rodriguez of Mexico who will be in attendance for the world premiere of a new work commissioned by Earplay.
EARPLAY has performed over 400 works in its 26-year history including over 110 world premieres and 50 plus new works commissioned by the ensemble. This season will reinforce Earplay's unwavering track record of presenting exceptional music in the 21st century.
Founded in 1985 by a consortium of composers and musicians, Earplay is dedicated to the performance of new chamber music offering audiences a unique opportunity to hear eloquent, vivid performances of some of today's finest chamber music. Concerts feature the Earplayers, a group of seven artists who, as a group, have developed a lyrical and ferocious style. Mary Chun conducts the Earplayers, a group of six outstanding Bay Area musicians: Tod Brody, flute and piccolo; Peter Josheff, clarinet and bass clarinet; Terrie Baune, violin; Ellen Ruth Rose, viola; Thalia Moore, cello, and Karen Rosenak, piano.
Edmund Campion's Musica for flute, clarinet, marimba and piano (1997) is characterized by an impassioned lyricism and motoric repetition. In her bass clarinet solo, Spleen (1994) Olga Neuwirth navigates both the rude and the refined aspects of contemporary music with gleeful abandon. Adam Roberts Sinews (2008), winner of the 2010 Donald Aird Composition Prize, complements the Neuwirth with its extremes of explosive action and calm introspection. Earplay and the San Francisco Foundation Fund for Artists commissioned Mauricio Rodriguez to write Crepitum ("to rattle") (2010), a viola solo that will be premiered by Earplayer Ellen Ruth Rose. Funding for this work was also from the San Francisco Foundation's Fund for Artists matched by generous donors. Emergingcomposer Rodriguez also takes a highly personal approach to thinking about the nature of what makes music. Finishing the season is Jonathan Harvey's quartet, Lotuses, composed in 1992 for flute, violin, viola and cello, and a major chamber work from Harvey's oeuvre that exemplifies his interest in transformation with its alchemical treatment of a sinuous melodic idea that winds through the entire work.
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LocationHerbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States
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