Sunday, August 1, 2010 – 6pm
Soundwave Festival ((4)): Viscera at Battery Townsley
Curated by Jorge Bachmann featuring Takahiro Kawaguchi (Japan) with [rudiobello], Raub Roy (HoraFlora), and Jim Haynes
Green Sound revisits the historic WWII site on the stunning Marin Headlands hillside overlooking the majestic Pacific for the second of two shows. Curator Jorge Bachmann takes you inside the belly of the cavernous Battery, built inside an artificial hill that was able to withstand aerial and naval bombardments of the era. Soldiers worked and slept inside the fortified Battery but now the hollowed rooms and spaces echo with reverberance. Sound artists reinterpret the space without electricity and powered amplification.
Artist Raub Roy (horaflora) immerses the audience in an Aleatoric improv-installation using balloons and toothbrushes. Drumheads are made to sing throughout the bunker’s recesses, whilst the innate windiness excites Aeolian instruments along the bunker’s main corridor.
Artist Jim Haynes builds a series of thermally driven turbines agitating suspended pieces of glass generating a variety of tones and frequencies. The performance includes sheet metal, bells, mallets, bows, battery powered vibration devices and a shortwave radio.
Battery Townsley at Fort Cronkhite
Marin Headlands, off of Rodeo Beach
$15 ($25 with bus fare)
www.projectsoundwave.com
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Sunday, August 1, 2010 – 4:30pm
JULIAN LAGE
Jazz guitar prodigy plays from Grammy-nominated first CD, Sounding Point.
Julian Lage – guitar, Jorge Roeder – bass
Twenty-one year old jazz guitarist, Julian Lage started playing professionally in the SF Bay area at the age of seven, performing with the likes of Gary Burton, Herbie Hancock, Christian McBride and appeared on Grammy-nominated albums with Nnenna Freelon and his friend, pianist Taylor Eigsti. His debut album (Sounding Point) was Grammy nominated for Best Contemporary Jazz Album of 2009. “I’ve been in a position where I could have recorded an album when I was younger but was never in a rush.”
Douglas Beach House on Miramar Beach
307 Mirada Road, Half Moon Bay
$35
Information: (650) 726-4143
www.bachddsoc.org
www.julianlage.com
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010 – 12:30pm
William Corbett-Jones, piano
Mozart: Variations on a Theme of Gluck, K. 445
Schumann: Fantasy Pieces, Op. 12
Chopin: Ballade in F minor, Op. 52
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010 – 8pm
Carte Blanche Concert III: The Beethoven Sonatas for Piano and Cello
David Finckel, cello, and Wu Han, piano
Music@Menlo’s series of artist-curated recitals showcases individual festival musicians and their singular musical passions. Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han offer one of their signature duo recital programs. The Beethoven sonatas for piano and cello represent a bold reimagination of the cello-and-keyboard literature in which the cello, traditionally cast in a supporting role, and piano interact as equal partners.
Music@Menlo
Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton
$65/$55 adult; $32/$25 student
Information: 650-331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010 – 8pm
Concert Program IV: Aftermath: 1945
A survey of music inspired by the devastation wrought by World War II, Music@Menlo’s fourth Concert Program features Richard Strauss’s impassioned Metamorphosen, which marked the 1945 bombing of Dresden; Dmitry Shostakovich’s haunting Eighth String Quartet, dedicated “in memory of victims of fascism and war”; and The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Benjamin Britten’s defiant response to the calamity of war.
Strauss Metamorphosen (1945)
Shostakovich String Quartet no. 8 in c minor, op. 110 (1960)
Britten The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35 (1945)
ARTISTS
Matthew Plenk, tenor; Ken Noda, piano; Jorja Fleezanis, violin; Lily Francis, violin; Beth Guterman, viola; Erin Keefe, viola; David Finckel, cello; Ralph Kirshbaum, cello; Scott Pingel, bass; Miró Quartet
Music@Menlo
Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Atherton
$72–$50 adult; $35–$20 student
Information: 650-331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Thursday, August 5, 2010 – 11:30am
Master class: Miró Quartet
Music@Menlo
Martin Family Hall, Menlo School
Atherton
FREE
Information: 650-331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Thursday, August 5, 2010 – 8pm
Outsound Presents
8pm Key West
Brian Pedersen - reeds
Jason Ricci - drums
David Dupuis - stand up bass
Mark Blatnick - cello
Dan Nachtrab - reeds
9pm tptflm - Films by Allen D. Glass
music w/Kris Tiner - trumpet
Luggage Store New Music Series
1007 Market Street, San Francisco
$6-10
www.outsound.org
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Thursday, August 5, 2010 – 8pm
Concert Program IV: Aftermath: 1945
A survey of music inspired by the devastation wrought by World War II, Music@Menlo’s fourth Concert Program features Richard Strauss’s impassioned Metamorphosen, which marked the 1945 bombing of Dresden; Dmitry Shostakovich’s haunting Eighth String Quartet, dedicated “in memory of victims of fascism and war”; and The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Benjamin Britten’s defiant response to the calamity of war.
Strauss Metamorphosen (1945)
Shostakovich String Quartet no. 8 in c minor, op. 110 (1960)
Britten The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35 (1945)
ARTISTS
Matthew Plenk, tenor; Ken Noda, piano; Jorja Fleezanis, violin; Lily Francis, violin; Beth Guterman, viola; Erin Keefe, viola; David Finckel, cello; Ralph Kirshbaum, cello; Scott Pingel, bass; Miró Quartet
Music@Menlo
Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton
$72–$50 adult; $35–$20 student
Information: 650-331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Friday, August 6, 2010 – 7:30pm
Encounter III: Under the Influence: Cultural Collage in Paris during the Early Twentieth Century, with Bruce Adolphe
Music@Menlo’s signature series of evening-length multimedia symposia, led by today’s most renowned musical authorities, adds an integral dimension to the festival experience. Whether it was a melodic curve from Spain, a blue note from America, or a rhythmic gesture from Japan, exotica caught the attention of nearly every composer in Paris from Debussy and Ravel to Stravinsky and Gershwin. Composer Bruce Adolphe investigates the early influences that led to the global musical community we now enjoy.
Music@Menlo
Martin Family Hall, Menlo School
Atherton
$42 adult; $20 student
Information: 650-331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Friday, August 6, 2010 – 8pm
Soundwave Festival ((4)): Re-velations in the Illuminated Forest
Re-velations unveils all the mysteries and myths of our world. Extraordinary Forest performs “Shelter,” exploring the phenomenology of sound, of dwellings, and beyond. Extraordinary Forest explores the myths and theories behind structures and architecture relating to the ideas of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia using themes of green building, Utopian villages, installation art, experimental architecture, and the ever constant search for a comforting home with sound, music, visuals and sculpture.
T h e L a b
2 9 4 8 1 6 t h Street, San Francisco
$1 0 - 1 5
www.projectsoundwave.com
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Saturday, August 7, 2010 – 8pm
Concert Program V: La Ville-Lumière: Paris, 1920–1928
“La Ville-Lumière” celebrates Paris in the Roaring Twenties, a city at the intersection of Gabriel Fauré’s old-world elegance, the Impressionism of Maurice Ravel, and France’s emerging avant-garde, led by Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud. The program also features some of Paris’s expatriate composers during this exciting time: Sergey Prokofiev, Aaron Copland, George Antheil, and George Gershwin (An American in Paris).
Milhaud La création du monde (1923)
Copland Movement for String Quartet (ca. 1923)
Antheil Violin Sonata no. 2 (1923)
Prokofiev Quintet in g minor, op. 39 (1924)
Fauré Barcarolle no. 13 in C Major, op. 116 (1921)
Ravel Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré (1922)
Poulenc Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon, op. 32 (1922)
Gershwin An American in Paris (1928)
ARTISTS
Jonathan Fischer, oboe; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Dennis Godburn, bassoon; Alessio Bax, piano; Ken Noda, piano; Wu Han, piano;
Jorja Fleezanis, violin; Erin Keefe, violin; Beth Guterman, viola; Scott Pingel, bass; Jupiter String Quartet
Music@Menlo
Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton
$60/$50 adult; $30/$20 student
Information: 650-331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Sunday, August 8, 2010 – 4:30pm
KEN BERMAN PIANO TRIO
Ken Berman – piano, Kai Eckhardt – electric bass, Akira Tana – drums performing from their new release “Looking Forward.”
SF Bay Area Pianist/Composer Ken Berman will perform two sets of extraordinary original compositions that bring to mind the classic trios of Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett, and Bill Evans, while maintaining a unique and inimitable sound. CitizenJazz says, “Gifted with a very fine touch and a state-of-the-art technique,” Ken Berman composes “very cool jazz, not at all cerebral, and extremely well-played.” Mr. Berman is currently on the music faculty at the University of California at Berkeley and teaches part-time at Stanford University.
Douglas Beach House on Miramar Beach
307 Mirada Road, Half Moon Bay
$30
Information: (650) 726-4143
www.bachddsoc.org
www.kenbermanmusic.com
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Sunday, August 8, 2010 – 10am
Carte Blanche Concert IV: Found in Translation
Alessio Bax, piano
Music@Menlo’s series of artist-curated recitals showcases individual festival musicians and their singular musical passions. Rising virtuoso Alessio Bax expands on the 2010 season theme with an ambitious three-part recital program. Part I, “Bach Transcribed,” celebrates the flourishing tradition of Bach keyboard transcriptions. Part II explores Italy from the Baroque to Berio. Part III illustrates the mutual influence between the composers of Spain and France.
Music@Menlo
Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Atherton
$70 adult; $35 student
Information: 650-331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Sunday, August 8, 2010 – 4pm
Rudy Salvini Octet
Jazz and Standards from the Great American Songbook, plus originals.
In the aggregate, the members of The Rudy Salvini Octet bring, literally, several centuries worth of musical experience to Old First. Collectively, they are a virtual embodiment of that fabled period in Bay Area music known as the big band jazz era. Just a partial list of musical greats they have played with or accompanied reads like two blocks on Hollywood's Walk of Fame: Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Marvin Gaye, Duke Ellington, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr., Isaac Hayes, Peggy Lee, Mel Tormé, Billy Eckstein, Nancy Wilson, Natalie Cole, Lena Horne, Dionne Warwick, Henry Mancini and more. The RSO is truly a musical treasure.
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Monday, August 9, 2010 – 8pm
Concert Program VI: Spanish Inspirations
“Spanish Inspirations” brings together Spain’s most influential voices around the turn of the twentieth century: Isaac Albéniz, Joaquín Turina, and Manuel de Falla. The program also features music by the foremost French composers of the day, who fell under the spell of their Spanish counterparts: Debussy and Ravel, whose Piano Trio recalls the folk dances of his own Basque ancestry.
Albéniz Sevilla (1886); Mallorca (1889); Torre Bermeja (1888)
de Falla Siete canciones populares españolas (1914)
Debussy String Quartet in g minor, op. 10 (1893)
Turina La oración del torero (1925)
Ravel Piano Trio (1914)
ARTISTS
Sasha Cooke, soprano; Alessio Bax, piano; Jason Vieaux, guitar; Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Laurence Lesser, cello; Jupiter String Quartet
Music@Menlo
Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Atherton
$72 adult; $35 student
Information: 650-331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010 – 12:30pm
Daniel Glover, piano
Samuel Barber: “Souvenirs,” Sonata in E-flat minor
Frédéric Chopin: Andanate Spianato and Grande Polonaise
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010 – 8pm
Concert Program VI: Spanish Inspirations
“Spanish Inspirations” brings together Spain’s most influential voices around the turn of the twentieth century: Isaac Albéniz, Joaquín Turina, and Manuel de Falla. The program also features music by the foremost French composers of the day, who fell under the spell of their Spanish counterparts: Debussy and Ravel, whose Piano Trio recalls the folk dances of his own Basque ancestry.
Albéniz Sevilla (1886); Mallorca (1889); Torre Bermeja (1888)
de Falla Siete canciones populares españolas (1914)
Debussy String Quartet in g minor, op. 10 (1893)
Turina La oración del torero (1925)
Ravel Piano Trio (1914)
ARTISTS
Sasha Cooke, soprano; Alessio Bax, piano; Jason Vieaux, guitar; Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Laurence Lesser, cello; Jupiter String Quartet
Music@Menlo
Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton
$60/50 adult; $30/20 student
Information: 650-331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Thursday, August 12, 2010 – 7:30pm
Encounter IV: Dvorák and the New World, with Robert Winter
Music@Menlo’s signature series of evening-length multimedia symposia, led by today’s most renowned musical authorities, adds an integral dimension to the festival experience. Scholar/pianist/media author Robert Winter shares unique recorded interviews with those who knew Dvorák while he composed the American Quartet and Quintet, presents rare images of the Chicago World’s Fair that Dvorák visited twice, and samples little-known works such as the American Suite for Piano, and more!
Music@Menlo
Martin Family Hall, Menlo School
Atherton
$42 adult; $20 student
Information: 650-331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Thursday, August 12, 2010 – 7:30pm
Beethoven, The Man and the Music
This intimate concert will open with members of the Eastern Sierra Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Beethoven's early work for winds, the Octet in E-flat, Opus 103. Pianist, Stephen Beus will perform 15 Variations and Fugue in E-flat major, Opus 35, the "Eroica" Variations, a composition illustrating the creative independence of the young composer. Beethoven's String Quartet in E-flat Major, Opus 74, "The Harp", composed shortly after his Fifth Symphony, will be performed by the principal string players of the Eastern Sierra Symphony Orchestra, Maria Newman and Scott Hosfield violins, Andrew Pickens viola, and Leighton Fong cello. The audience can expect to be entertained as well as educated with Charles Scatolini's dramatic narrative perspective on the life and times of Ludwig van Beethoven, his personal struggles and triumphs, as well as insights into the music performed in this evening's concert.
Sierra Summer Festival of the Performing Arts
St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Mammoth Lakes
Adults $15, Students (12-20) $10
Information: (760) 924-2976, (760) 873-4616
www.sierrasummerfestival.org
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Friday, August 13, 2010 – 8pm
Concert Program VII: Dvorák’s America
Renowned as the greatest champion of his native Czech music, Antonín Dvorák was invited in 1891 to lead New York’s National Conservatory and guide America’s composers in discovering their own musical language. In 1893, while residing in Spillville, Iowa, Dvorák captured the essence of Americana in two captivating compositions: the Opus 96 Quartet and the Opus 97 Quintet, both nicknamed American.
Dvorák String Quartet no. 12 in F Major, op. 96, American (1893)
Selected American songs and spirituals
Dvorák Quintet for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello in E-flat Major, op. 97, American (1893)
ARTISTS
Sasha Cooke, soprano; Wu Han, piano; Erin Keefe, violin; Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Beth Guterman, viola; Laurence Lesser, cello;
Jupiter String Quartet¬
Music@Menlo
Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Atherton
$72 adult; $35 student
Information: 650-331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Saturday, August 14, 2010 – 8pm
Concert Program VII: Dvorák’s America
Renowned as the greatest champion of his native Czech music, Antonín Dvorák was invited in 1891 to lead New York’s National Conservatory and guide America’s composers in discovering their own musical language. In 1893, while residing in Spillville, Iowa, Dvorák captured the essence of Americana in two captivating compositions: the Opus 96 Quartet and the Opus 97 Quintet, both nicknamed American.
Dvorák String Quartet no. 12 in F Major, op. 96, American (1893)
Selected American songs and spirituals
Dvorák Quintet for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello in E-flat Major, op. 97, American (1893)
ARTISTS
Sasha Cooke, soprano; Wu Han, piano; Erin Keefe, violin; Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Beth Guterman, viola; Laurence Lesser, cello;
Jupiter String Quartet
Music@Menlo
Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton
$60/50adult; $30/20 student
Information: 650-331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010 – 12:30pm
Tien Hsieh, piano
Robert Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9, Papillons
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Thursday, August 19, 2010 – 8pm
E s t a m o s E n s e m b l e
E s t a m o s P o r q u e S o m o s
The verb estamos in Spanish means we are in the enon-permanent sense” and this concept is intrinsic to the nature of Estamos Ensemble whose intention is to foster and facilitate more musical exchange between improvisers and composers across the borders of The Americas. Representing a cross-section of musicians from both Mexico and the United States, this nine-piece chamber ensemble will be performing world premiere works written specifically for them by such renowned Mexican composers as Ana Lara, Gabriela Ortiz and Rogelio Sosa , as well North Americans Joan Jeanrenaud, NelsCline and Pauline Oliveros.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701, Mission Street, San Francisco
www.ybca.org
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Friday, August 20, 2010 – 8pm
sfSound
Alexa Beattie, viola; Matt Ingalls, clarinet; John Ingle, saxophone; Christopher Jones, piano, conductor; Kjell Nordeson, percussion; Monica Scott, 'cello; Erik Ulman, violin
World Premiere of Ocean by Erik Ulman and the American Premieres of Fugitive Beauté by Matthias Spahlinger and Fast Medium Swing by Matthew Shlomowitz, along with works by Brian Ferneyhough, Christian Wolff and Matt Ingalls.
sfSound is a unique collective of composer/performers that performs its own music compositions, commissions new work, performs avant-garde repertory and develops highly creative “radical transcriptions” of modern masterpieces. Presenting contemporary and experimental music concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2000, sfSound's programs reach 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. www.sfsound.org
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010 – 12:30pm
Mack McCray, piano
Beethoven: Sonata, No. 23, “Appassionata”
Christoph W. Gluck: Melody from Orpheus
Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 9
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Thursday, August 26, 2010 – 8pm
8PM: TERRY RILEY / JOHN ZORN duo
10PM: Fred Frith, MIKE PATTON, JOHN ZORN trio
Yoshi's San Francisco
1330 Fillmore Street, San Francisco
www.yoshis.com
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Friday, August 27, 2010 – 8pm
Yuri Liberzon
Köln Concert Part IIc by Keith Jarrett, songs of the Beatles arranged by Toru Takemitsu, and works by Robert de Visée, Leopold Weiss, Sergei Rudnev, Konstantin Vassiliev, and Joaquin Turina.
Guitarist Yuri Liberzon is an extraordinary talent gaining recognition by professionals, critics and audiences around the world. Mr. Liberzon’s performance career has taken him to stages of many prestigious venues in the Middle East, Europe and America. Some of his recent concerts took place in New York, Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, Jerusalem, Köln, New Haven, Philadelphia San Francisco and Tel Aviv. Future performances include concerts featuring Yuri as the soloist with the Diablo Symphony Orchestra and a 2011 East Coast tour. www.yuriguitar.com
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Saturday, August 28, 2010 – 8pm
8 p m R o v a S a x o p h o n e Q u a r t e t w i l l b e j o i n e d b y t h e a l w a y s e x c i t i n g a n d i n v e n t i v e s a x o p h o n i s t , c o m p o s e r a n d c o m m u n i t y b u i l d e r , J o h n Z o r n . I n t o w n f o r a t h r e e - n i g h t r e s i d e n c y a t Y o s h iˇ˝ s S F , Z o r n w i l l h i t t h e s t a g e w i t h R o v a i n a r e p r i s e o f t h e i r r e c e n t q u i n t e t s e s s i o n a t t h e S t o n e i n N e w Y o r k C i t y . R o v a ' s p e r e n n i a l c o l l a b o r a t i o n s w i t h Z o r n a r e h i g h l y c h a r g e d , e x h i l a r a t i n g b l o w f e s t s .
1 0 p m : C O B R A
C o b r a i s
f r e d f r i t h g u i t a r
t r e y s p r u a n c e g u i t a r
s c o t t a m e n d o l a d r u m s
k e n n y w o l l e s e n d r u m s
w i l l i a m w i n a n t p e r c
r o b b u r g e r p i a n o
d a v e s l u s s e r k e y s
m i k e p a t t o n v o x , e l e c t r o n i c s
c h r i s b r o w n e l e c t r o n i c s
d a v i d r o s e n b o o m e l e c t r o n i c s
t i m b h a r r i s v i o l i n
j o a n j e a n r e n a u d c e l l o
m a r k d r e s s e r b a s s
t r e v o r d u n n b a s s
j o h n z o r n p r o m p t e r
Yoshi's San Francisco
1330 Fillmore Street, San Francisco
$30
www.yoshis.com
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Sunday, August 29, 2010 – 4pm
A Sunday Kind of Jazz
This is fun and very swinging music, perfect for a summer afternoon. Award-winning composer Lenny Carlson writes challenging but user-friendly pieces and plays jazz guitar in the tradition of Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery. Hal Richards adds visual as well as musical interest by performing on every conceivable saxophone, clarinet and flute. The program also includes standard repertoire by Ellington, Gershwin and other icons. www.lennycarlson.com
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010 – 12:30pm
William Wellborn, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 31, No. 3
Franz Liszt: Petrarch Sonnet No. 104, Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 15
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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