Contemporary Insights: Music and Conversation

Sunday, November 7, 2010 4:30 p.m.
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 Cage, Seven (1988)
For flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, viola, and cello.

The ensemble revisits a piece of its history at the opening of its 40th Anniversary Season. Co-commissioned by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players in 1988, Seven is part of Cage’s series of numbered works that explore the fixed and flexible aspects of time. In this unconventional piece, each musician reads from a different set of time-brackets, most of which are flexible in their length. Instead of a conductor, the musicians use stopwatches to guide their progress through the piece.

$10 general, $5 students/seniors.
Tickets are available with a subscription or at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds.

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

This project has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.