Contemporary Insights: Music and Conversation

Sunday, October 2, 2011 4:30 p.m.
ODC Theater at the Dance Commons, San Francisco
351 Shotwell Street (between 17th and 18th Streets), San Francisco
Directions and parking information

Steven Schick moderates a conversation with listeners and musicians at five informal events devoted to the understanding and appreciation of new music. Each time, the ensemble performs one piece from the upcoming concert program, and the composer is often present to discuss the work. Audience members consistently praise Contemporary Insights events as a unique opportunity to become familiar with a new piece before hearing it again in concert. Afterward, join us at a complimentary reception to meet the artists.

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

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

Selections from John Luther Adams's Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing Instrumentation to be selected from: two flutes, two clarinets, two horns, trumpet, trombone, vibraphone, marimba, celeste, piano, two violins, viola, cello, bass Listen (excerpts)

About the piece:
"Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing is a work of musical contemplation, an attempt to consecrate a small time and space for extraordinary listening. The work is titled after The Cloud of Unknowing, a 14th Century mystical Christian text which has much in common with the teachings of contemplative traditions throughout the world, be they Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Sufi, Native American or other. The essence of the contemplative experience is voluntary surrender, purposeful immersion in the fullness of a presence far larger than ourselves."

Funded in part through Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program.