Contemporary Insights: Music and Conversation

Sunday, October 4, 2009 4:30 pm 
ODC Dance Commons, San Francisco

Each Contemporary Insights event focuses on a single piece from the following Monday’s concert. Composers and musicians talk about the piece, and the musicians demonstrate parts of it. After performing the work in its entirety, the musicians elicit reactions, answer questions, and talk with the audience.
The audience is invited to stay for wine and hors d’oeuvres afterwards.

ODC Dance Commons
351 Shotwell Street, between 17th and 18th Streets
Near 16th Street BART
Parking lot nearby

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Program:
John Harbison, The Seven Ages for mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, vibraphone, piano, violin, and cello.
Sara Jobin conducts.

Pulitzer prize-winner John Harbison joins us to discuss his six-song cycle of poetry by Louise Glück, co-commissioned by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Mezzo-soprano Pamela Dellal, who sang in the world premiere, joins us from New York to perform the vocal part.

Tickets: $10 general, $5 students.
Buy tickets on our secure order form or purchase at the door.

Questions? Call 415-278-9566 or email info@sfcmp.org.

Funded in part by: National Endowment for the Arts, Aaron Copland Fund for Music.