His Own Space of Freedom

Monday, April 26, 2010 8:00 pm
Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Ave. at McAllister, San Francisco
Pre-concert talk begins at 7:15 pm.

Philippe Hurel, Figures libres  (2004)
Guo Wenjing, Parade  (2003) 
Manolis Manousakis, One Minute of Silence  (2008, world premiere)
Rufus Olivier, bassoon
Tan Dun, Water Music  (2004)

Christian Baldini conducts.

$28 general, $23 senior, $10 student
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The four kinetic and engaging works on this concert explore different aspects of freedom and its limits: In Figures libres, a free-thinking motif escapes the confines of its organizing framework; Martin Luther King is given a minute of silence in Manolis Manousakis’s piece for bassoon, video, and electronics; water becomes a medium for sound in Academy Award-winner Tan Dun’s piece for four percussionists; and complex rhythms spring forth from six little gongs in Guo Wenjing’s Parade.

Hurel will participate in a pre-concert talk in the theatre at 7:15 pm.

Funded in part by: National Endowment for the Arts; Aaron Copland Fund for Music; The French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE with support from Cultural Services of the French Embassy, CulturesFrance, SACEM and Florence Gould Foundation.