Saturday, August 1, 2009 – 6pm
Koret Young Performers Concert
Koret Young Performers Concerts, featuring students in the Young Performers Program, are free and open to the public, offering an ideal setting for new listeners and young audiences to discover great music and join in the festival experience.
Program:
Selected movements from:
DVORAK: Piano Trio no. 4 in e minor, op. 90 (Dumky) (Zoë Curran, violin; Stephanie Tsai, cello; Hilda Huang, piano)
HANDEL, ARR. JOHAN HALVORSEN: Passacaglia for Violin and Cello (Emily Shehi, violin; Julia Rosenbaum, cello)
Music@Menlo
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Palo Alto
Free
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Saturday, August 1, 2009 – 8pm
Carte Blanche Concert II: The Brahms Sonatas for Violin and Piano
The violin sonatas of Johannes Brahms encapsulate the allure of the Romantic master’s compositional language. Each of the three offers the poignant intimacy and symphonic breadth—and, above all, the devastating lyricism—that characterize Brahms’s mature style. Violinist Joseph Swensen and pianist Jeffrey Kahane, both passionate interpreters of the Romantic literature, join forces to present this luminous cycle of works.
Artists
Joseph Swensen, violin
Jeffrey Kahane, piano
Music@Menlo
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Palo Alto
$65/$45 adult; $32/$15 student
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Sunday, August 2, 2009 – 4pm
Koret Young Performers Concert
Koret Young Performers Concerts, featuring students in the Young Performers Program, are free and open to the public, offering an ideal setting for new listeners and young audiences to discover great music and join in the festival experience.
Program:
Selected movements from:
BRAHMS: Violin Sonata no. 3 in d minor, op. 108 (Joshua Chiu, violin; Mayumi Tsuchida, piano)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Quintet in g minor, op. 57 (James Hu, Geraldine Chok, violins; Theodore Ma, viola; Sarah Ghandour, cello; Lilian Finckel, piano)
FAURE: Dolly Suite (Linh Nguyen, Tristan Yang, piano)
Music@Menlo
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Palo Alto
Free
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
***
Sunday, August 2, 2009 – 7:30pm
SIMM Series
7:30pm Darren Johnston - trumpet/Aram Shelton - saxophones, clarinets/Lisa Mezzacappa - bass/Kjell Nordeson - percussion
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie Chamber Ensemble: Annelise Zamula - flute/Amber Lamprecht - oboe/Bill Noertker - bass/Lisa Mezzacappa – bass
Musicians Union Hall
116 9th St @ Mission, San Francisco
$10/8
www.outsound.org
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Sunday, August 2, 2009 – 7pm
Carte Blanche Concert III: An Evening with Menahem Pressler
Having recently concluded his fifty-three-year journey as founding pianist of the legendary Beaux Arts Trio, Menahem Pressler makes his long-awaited Music@Menlo debut, offering two of the most profound musical statements to mark the dawn of Romanticism: Beethoven’s Opus 110 Piano Sonata, the penultimate of his cycle of thirty-two sonatas, and Schubert’s final work in that genre, the sublime B-flat Major Piano Sonata, completed two months before the composer’s death.
Artists
Menahem Pressler, piano
with Wu Han, piano
Music@Menlo
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Palo Alto
$65/$45 adult; $32/$15 student
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
***
Monday, August 3, 2009 – 6pm
Prelude Performance
Prelude Performances, featuring the International Program artists, are free and open to the public, offering an ideal setting for new listeners and young audiences to discover great music and join in the festival experience. These outstanding preconcert recitals, performed by the extraordinary Institute musicians, continue to garner enthusiastic acclaim from audiences and critics alike.
Program:
MOZART: Trio in E-flat Major, K. 498 (Kegelstatt) (Atria Ensemble: Sunmi Chang, violin; Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet; Hye-Yeon Park, piano)
Music@Menlo
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Palo Alto
Free
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
***
Monday, August 3, 2009 – 8pm
Concert Program IV: Mendelssohn Perspectives
“Mendelssohn Perspectives” illuminates the music of Mendelssohn’s predecessors and heirs, set around the composer’s signature Lieder ohne Worte. Beethoven’s dramatic Kreutzer Sonata was a recital specialty of Mendelssohn the chamber musician. Brahms’s Second Piano Quartet represents the latter half of the Romantic journey begun by Beethoven and propelled by Mendelssohn. The thrilling Piano Trio of the renowned American composer Pierre Jalbert gives voice in our own time to the Mendelssohnian ideal of expressive pathos combined with impeccable design.
Artists
Music@Menlo
Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Atherton
$70 adult; $35 student
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009 – 12pm
Master Class with the Pacifica Quartet
Music@Menlo unites the next generation of great chamber musicians with a renowned faculty of today’s most esteemed artists and educators. Join the young artists and faculty of the Chamber Music Institute during the festival as they exchange ideas, discuss interpretive approaches, and prepare masterworks of the classical music literature for the stage.
Music@Menlo
Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Atherton
FREE
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
***
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 – 6pm
Prelude Performance
Prelude Performances, featuring the International Program artists, are free and open to the public, offering an ideal setting for new listeners and young audiences to discover great music and join in the festival experience. These outstanding preconcert recitals, performed by the extraordinary Institute musicians, continue to garner enthusiastic acclaim from audiences and critics alike.
Program:
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F Major, op. 135 (LK String Quartet: Areta Zhulla, Sean Lee, violins; Laura Seay, viola; Jordan Han, cello)
Music@Menlo
Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Atherton
FREE
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
***
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 – 8pm
Concert Program IV: Mendelssohn Perspectives
“Mendelssohn Perspectives” illuminates the music of Mendelssohn’s predecessors and heirs, set around the composer’s signature Lieder ohne Worte. Beethoven’s dramatic Kreutzer Sonata was a recital specialty of Mendelssohn the chamber musician. Brahms’s Second Piano Quartet represents the latter half of the Romantic journey begun by Beethoven and propelled by Mendelssohn. The thrilling Piano Trio of the renowned American composer Pierre Jalbert gives voice in our own time to the Mendelssohnian ideal of expressive pathos combined with impeccable design.
Artists
Music@Menlo
Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Atherton
$70 adult; $35 student
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009 – 12:30pm
Natalya Lundtvedt, piano
Franz Schubert: Impromptu, Op. 90, No. 2 in E-flat Major and No. 3 in G-flat Major
Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 4 in F minor
Bizet-Horowitz: Carmen Fantasy
More!
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
***
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 – 6pm
Prelude Performance
Prelude Performances, featuring the International Program artists, are free and open to the public, offering an ideal setting for new listeners and young audiences to discover great music and join in the festival experience. These outstanding preconcert recitals, performed by the extraordinary Institute musicians, continue to garner enthusiastic acclaim from audiences and critics alike.
Program:
MOZART: Trio in E-flat Major, K. 498 (Kegelstatt) (Atria Ensemble: Sunmi Chang, violin; Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet; Hye-Yeon Park, piano)
Music@Menlo
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Palo Alto
Free
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
***
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 – 8pm
Concert Program IV: Mendelssohn Perspectives
“Mendelssohn Perspectives” illuminates the music of Mendelssohn’s predecessors and heirs, set around the composer’s signature Lieder ohne Worte. Beethoven’s dramatic Kreutzer Sonata was a recital specialty of Mendelssohn the chamber musician. Brahms’s Second Piano Quartet represents the latter half of the Romantic journey begun by Beethoven and propelled by Mendelssohn. The thrilling Piano Trio of the renowned American composer Pierre Jalbert gives voice in our own time to the Mendelssohnian ideal of expressive pathos combined with impeccable design.
Artists
Music@Menlo
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Palo Alto
$65/$45 adult; $32/$15 student
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
***
Thursday, August 6, 2009 – 8pm
UP FROM L.A. - THE MUSIC OF VINNY GOLIA. Reed-master Vinny Golia accompanied in the first set by his String Ensemble (Sarah Jo Zaharako, violin; Dina Maccabee, viola; Alex Kelly, cello; Lisa Mezzacappa, bass) and in the second by Touch & Go (Sheldon Brown, reeds; Darren Johnston, trumpet; Lisa Mezzacappa, bass; Bill Horvitz, guitar; Vijay Anderson, drums).
Flux 53
5306 Foothill Blvd. at Fairfax, Oakland
$10(nota)
www.flux53.net
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Friday. August, 7, 2009 – 8:30pm
Illuminated Corridor presents Citta di Vitta (Phillip Greenlief - alto saxophone, composer; Lisa Mezzacappa - bass; John Hanes - drums) at the Oakland Music for a blow-out bash, featuring the trio performing live with projected scenes from Antonioni's "L'Avventura" and "L'Eclisse".
Oakland Museum
1000 Oak Street, Oakland
bayimproviser.com/default.htm
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Friday, August 7, 2009 – 6pm
Prelude Performance
Prelude Performances, featuring the International Program artists, are free and open to the public, offering an ideal setting for new listeners and young audiences to discover great music and join in the festival experience. These outstanding preconcert recitals, performed by the extraordinary Institute musicians, continue to garner enthusiastic acclaim from audiences and critics alike.
Program:
MENDELSSOHN: Andante and Allegro Brillant in A Major, op. 92 (David Fung, Hye-Yeon Park, piano)
Music@Menlo
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Palo Alto
Free
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
***
Friday, August 7, 2009 – 8pm
The Mendelssohn String Quartet Cycle: Program III
Featuring the Pacifica Quartet
The Pacifica Quartet, named 2009 Ensemble of the Year by Musical America and winner of the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance, makes its Music@Menlo debut with its signature interpretation of Mendelssohn’s complete string quartet cycle, an essential component of the composer’s chamber music literature. The Mendelssohn cycle demonstrates the composer’s lifelong fascination with this integral chamber genre, spanning his creative career from his youthful precocity to his ephemeral final creations.
Music@Menlo
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Palo Alto
$65/$45 adult; $32/$15 student
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
***
Friday, August 7, 2009 – 8pm
Cabrillo Festival Opening Night: Azul
One World Premiere. One U.S. Premiere. Three composers in the house. Having just won the 2009 Grawemeyer Award—the world’s most prestigious composition prize—Australian composer Brett Dean joins you tonight for his Festival debut. We open the season with the U.S. Premiere of his Amphitheatre, which takes its title and inspiration from the opening of German author Michael Ende’s mesmerizing children’s book Momo, in which he describes the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheatre.
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Santa Cruz
$30-$45
Information: (831) 420 5260
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Saturday, August 8, 2009 – 1pm
Koret Young Performers Concert
Koret Young Performers Concerts, featuring students in the Young Performers Program, are free and open to the public, offering an ideal setting for new listeners and young audiences to discover great music and join in the festival experience.
Program:
Selected movements from:
BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio in G Major, op. 1, no. 2 (Zoë Curran, violin; Sarah Ghandour, cello; Hilda Huang, piano)
MARTINU: Sonata for Two Violins and Piano, H. 213 (Geraldine Chok, Tristan Yang, violins; Michael Davidman, piano)
Music@Menlo
Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Atherton
FREE
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
***
Saturday, August 8, 2009 – 5pm
Prelude Performance
Prelude Performances, featuring the International Program artists, are free and open to the public, offering an ideal setting for new listeners and young audiences to discover great music and join in the festival experience. These outstanding preconcert recitals, performed by the extraordinary Institute musicians, continue to garner enthusiastic acclaim from audiences and critics alike.
Program:
MENDELSSOHN: Andante and Allegro Brillant in A Major, op. 92 (David Fung, Hye-Yeon Park, piano)
Music@Menlo
Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Atherton
FREE
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
***
Saturday, August 8, 2009 – 8pm
Concert Program V: Promise Fulfilled
In 1832, Felix Mendelssohn modestly uttered to his sister Fanny: “I should like to compose a couple of good trios.” The 2009 festival season comes to a riveting cadence with Mendelssohn’s two majestic piano trios, works that represent the Romantic master at the height of his powers. These touchstones of the composer’s chamber music oeuvre have endured as perennial favorites among music lovers since their acclaimed premieres late in Mendelssohn’s life.
Music@Menlo
Menlo Park Presbyterian Church
Menlo Park
$50/$40 adult; $25/$10 student
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Sunday, August 9, 2009 – 8pm
sfSoundSeries
sfSoundSummerSeries 2009: from the latest music of the european avant-garde to the grittiest sounds of the west coast improv-underground .. encompassing recent trends in instrumental technique, conceptual art, music theater, and electronic sound..
Program:
Karlheinz Stockhausen KREUZSPIEL (1951)
for oboe, bass clarinet, piano, 3 percussionists
Anthony Braxton Composition No.75 (1975)
for 3 wind instruments
sfSoundSeries & sfSoundGroup
ODC Dance Commons
San Francisco
$10 ($5 underemployed)
Information: (415) 863-6606
www.sfsound.org/series
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Sunday, August 9, 2009 – 4:30pm
Denise Donatelli and Geoffrey Keeser
Denise Donatelli – vocals, Hamilton Price - bass; Duncan Moore - drums; Bob Sheppard – reeds, Geoffrey Keezer, piano
Vocalist Denise Donatelli caught the eye and incredible ear of pianist/composer Geoffrey Keezer. Their latest recording, What Lies Within on Savant, is “a classic example of communicative jazz ballad singing ... she is a singer jazz musicians love to love."
Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society
Douglas Beach House on Miramar Beach
307 Mirada Road, Half Moon Bay
$30
Information: (650) 726-4143
www.bachddsoc.org
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Sunday, August 9, 2009 – 4pm
Homages
Daniel Glover, piano
Daniel Glover, piano, will perform Haydn's Sonata in E-flat, 'Genzinger', three pieces in Homage to Haydn (1909) by Dukas, Ravel and Debussy, Chopin's Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, 'Funeral March', Liszt's Ave Maria (The Bells of Rome) and Funerailles (Burial), along with Hexameron, variations on the March from Bellini's I Puritani by six composers.
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento St., San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$15; $12 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 – 12:30pm
Jonathan Edward Mann, piano
Padre Antonio Soler: Sonatas Nos. 48 & 49
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata in C, K. 330
Richard Wagner: Isoldens Liebestod, Lots more!
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Thursday, August 13, 2009 – 6pm
Lisa Mezzacappa & Nightshade perform a new series of wordless chamber songs in the YBCA galleries inspired by the visual work of artists Yehudit Sasportas and Edgar Arceneaux ... with Cory Wright, clarinets, John Finkbeiner, guitar, Kjell Nordeson, percussion, Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass, and Tim Perkis, electronics.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street, San Francisco
ybca.org
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Friday, August 14, 2009 – 7:30pm
Chamber Music Consort Party
Featuring favorite works of chamber music and vocal consorts, as well as excerpts from Vivaldi's Gloria with orchestra and chorus. For more information, see youthmusicinternational.com, Erika Miranda, Artistic Director.
Youth Music International
Unity of Berkeley
Berkeley
$10-$16
Information: (510) 595-9378
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Friday, August 14, 2009 – 8pm
Music: The Next Generation
Matthew McCright, piano; Jeff Anderle, clarinet; Jonathan Russell, clarinet; Alisa Rose, violin; Hannah Addario-Berry, 'cello; Brian Dowdy, guitar
The dynamic young pianist Matthew McCright joins some of the Bay Area's brightest up-and-coming new music stars in a concert highlighting the vitality and inventiveness of the next generation of Bay Area musicians. Performers include Jeff Anderle and Jonathan Russell, clarinets; Alisa Rose and Emily Packard, violins; and Brian Dowdy, guitar. The program features Bay Area luminary Paul Dresher's epic piano work Blue Diamonds, as well as works by Jonathan Russell, Ryan Brown, Damon Waitkus, Max Stoffregen, and Frederic Rzewski''s classic 1971 work Coming Together.
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento St., San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$15; $12 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Sunday, August 16, 2009 – 7pm
TWO GREAT BANDS: Tanya Tagaq Ensemble PLUS Larry Ochs' KIHNOUA featuring Joan Jeanrenaud, Dohee Lee, and Scott Amendola. Tanya Tagaq has created a major buzz in the alternative music scene with her experimentation of traditional Inuit throat singing.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum
701 Mission Street, San Francisco
$25
ybca.org
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Sunday, August 16, 2009 – 4:30pm
Mel Martin Sextet
Don Friedman -piano, Robb Fisher - bass, Jeff Marrs - drums, John Santos - congas and percussion, Mel Martin - tenor and soprano sax & flute, Brad Buethe – guitar
Encompassing a wide panoply of jazz styles from blues, Latin Jazz originals, contemporary classical and jazz standards from Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Victor Young.
Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society
Douglas Beach House on Miramar Beach
307 Mirada Road, Half Moon Bay
$30
Information: (650) 726-4143
www.bachddsoc.org
***
Sunday, August 16, 2009 – 7:30pm
Masterpiece Finale
A celebration of some of the most spectacular orchestral and choral masterpieces performed in the architecturally beautiful and acoustically stunning St Mary's Cathedral. For more information, see youthmusicinternational.com. Erika Miranda, Artistic Director
Youth Music International
Unity of Berkeley
Berkeley
$10-$16
Information: (510) 595-9378
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Sunday, August 16, 2009 – 7pm
Jazzberry Patch
Don Pender, saxophone
Don Pender leads his new quartet in a tribute to Cannonball Adderley and Sérgio Mendes, with several bossa novas and sambas on the program.
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento St., San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$15; $12 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 – 12:30pm
Chia-Lin Yang, piano
Beethoven: 32 Variations in C minor
Maurice Ravel: Ma mere l'oye
Frédéric Chopin: Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brilliante, Op. 22
More!
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Friday August 21, 2009 – 8pm
Robert Howard, 'cello; Elizabeth Dorman, piano
Pampeana No. 2 by Ginastera; Sonata No. 4 in C major by Beethoven; Suite Italienne by Stravinsky; Sonata by Rachmaninov
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento St., San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$15; $12 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Sunday, August 23, 2009 – 4pm
Tanya Vegvary Plescia, pianist and composer
Sonata, Op. 28 ‘Pastoral’ by Beethoven; Geary Street and Dark Carousel by Tanya Vegvary Plescia; sonatas by Scarlatti and other works
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento St., San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$15; $12 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Sunday, August 23, 2009 – 2pm
San Francisco Opera
Stern Grove Festival’s 72nd Season finale features the renowned San Francisco Opera Orchestra with tenor Marco Berti.
Heralding the arrival of San Francisco Opera’s new Music Director Nicola Luisotti, the afternoon focuses on great Italian opera, including selections from Un Ballo in Maschera, Cavalleria Rusticana, Tosca, Turandot, La Wally, Adrianna Lecouvreur, and more.
Stern Grove Festival
Sigmund Stern Grove, San Francisco
Free
Information: (415) 252-6252
www.sterngrove.org
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Sunday, August 23, 2009 – 4:30pm
Rhoda Scott on Hammond Organ
Akira Tana – drums, Ricky Woodard - tenor sax, Rhoda Scott - B3 Hammond organ
Rhoda puts out an energetic fusion of original compositions, well-known jazz tunes, classical music themes or French airs at the same time as certain Gospels or Negro Spirituals.
Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society
Douglas Beach House on Miramar Beach
307 Mirada Road, Half Moon Bay
$30
Information: (650) 726-4143
www.bachddsoc.org
***
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 – 12:30pm
Mack McCray, piano
Domenico Scarlatti: Two Sonatas
Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody
Ignacy Paderewski: Minuet, More!
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Friday, August 28, 2009 – 8pm
Basically British XIII
Joseph Edelberg, violin; Anna Kruger, viola; Thalia Moore, 'cello; John Parr, piano
Program to include Fantasy Quartet by Frank Bridge and music by George Onslow.
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento St., San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$15; $12 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Sunday, August 30, 2009 – 4pm
Clarinet Trios by Beethoven & Brahms
Jerome Simas, clarinet; Rebecca Rust, 'cello; Friedrich Edelmann, bassoon; Dmitry Cogan, piano
Trio No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 11, ‘Gassenhauer-Trio’ by Beethoven; Trio in A minor, Op. 114 by Brahms; US Premiere of Sapphische Strophen by Karl Michael Komma
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento St., San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$15; $12 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Monday, August 31, 2009 – 8:15am
David Harrington of Kronos Quartet joins Prem for an interview concerning the new Kronos release "Floodplain" in this KUSF broadcast event.
Listen to the interview at 90.3 FM in the SF Bay Area or online elsewhere at live365.com.
NOTE: the interview will take place live from 8:15-9:00, but if you cannot tune in at that time the recording of the interview will later be posted at kusfarchives.com.
KUSF San Francisco [90.3 FM]
kusf.org/index.shtml
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